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McDermott Will & Emery

No Co-Inventorship Absent Corroborated Conception

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In a patent case concerning cryptocurrency data mining, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment and its ruling that a state law conversion claim was preempted by...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

Expected Changes to IP Policy under the Second Trump Administration

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Intellectual property (“IP”) policy does not weigh heavily on most voters’ minds, and so is not often addressed in presidential campaigns. This past campaign was no different – President-elect Donald Trump did not expressly...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Someone Has to Stand Up: Judge Clarke Permits Developer of Crypto Protocol to Intervene in Action Against the Protocol Itself

On September 25, 2023, Judge Jessica Clarke (S.D.N.Y.) granted third party Compound Lab, Inc.'s ("Compound Labs”) motion to intervene in a patent infringement action filed by True Return Systems LLC (“True Return”) against...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Blockchain Patents and Litigation — Updated May 2023

Blockchain had a challenging year but continues to grow as a technology with broad applicability. Here, we update our previous article on the state of blockchain patents and patent litigation with an overview of the landscape...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Do DAOs Need to Worry About Infringing Patents? MakerDAO and Compound Protocol Serve as Test Cases

Certain decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are currently named as defendants in different court cases. However, the patent infringement cases in which True Return asserts that MakerDAO and Compound Protocol...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Blockchain Patents and Litigation

Blockchain has the potential to be the new frontier of innovation and a disruptor of existing technologies, and with this, has the potential for significant patent litigation. The technology now commonly known as “blockchain”...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 2, Issue 21

Nature of Patents and Patent Rights - When a patent is issued under the seal of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it is signed by the Director of the USPTO or an Office official. The patent contains a grant...more

Foster Garvey PC

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: Risks of NIL Pitfalls Prove Greater Than ‘NIL’

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Just two weeks into the name, image, and likeness (NIL) era in college sports, and we are already starting to see not only novel and creative partnerships, but also the emergence of legal gray areas and pitfalls for college...more

International Lawyers Network

TOP-10 IP Disputes in 2018

CATEGORY: Trademarks - CASE: Sony vs. PAG - DETAILS: Resolution of the Constitutional Court No. 8-P dated 13 February 2018 - SUMMARY: Unlike the counterfeit, the original (grey) product cannot be destroyed under the...more

Hogan Lovells

IPunkt - January 2018

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Kurze Einleitung - Liebe Leserin, lieber Leser, das vergangene Jahr war turbulent: der Amtsantritt Donald Trumps, der Höhenflug des Bitcoin, die Bundestagswahl und vieles mehr beschäftigten - und überraschten - uns....more

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Risk of ”Standard-Essential” Patent Litigation to Bitcoin

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It’s tempting to think that Bitcoin services would be immune to patent litigation. After all, Bitcoin protocol is open source and seems to be in the public domain. Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous designer of...more

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