Law Brief®: Rich Schoenstein and Joshua Ritter Discuss Cameras in the Courts
A Moment of Simple Justice - Cameras on Cops
On September 9, the Federal Circuit reversed a Northern District of California decision that invalidated two video camera patents as being directed to patent-ineligible abstract ideas under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Contour IP...more
In Contour IP Holding LLC v. GoPro, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a summary judgment in which the asserted patents were directed to an abstract idea and, thus, patent-ineligible....more
On June 11, in Yanbin Yu, Zhongxuan Zhang. v. Apple Inc., the Federal Circuit issued a decision finding that a claim directed to an improved digital camera was patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. This decision follows...more
The Patent War That Created Hollywood - In our last post, The Top Ten Patent Wars #7, we talked about some of the patent wars and the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act that helped shaped Silicon Valley. This week’s entry...more
Robinson, J. Defendant’s JMOL and new trial motions regarding the ‘081 and ‘686 patents is denied. Its JMOL and new trial motion relating to the second trial is granted in part and denied in part. Plaintiff’s JMOL motion as...more