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McDermott Will & Emery

Ahoy There : If License Terms Not Clearly Intended to Be a Condition Precedent, It’s a Covenant

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the US Court of Federal Claims erred by failing to consider defendant’s non-compliance with the terms of an implied license, vacating the claims court’s finding of...more

Knobbe Martens

Distribution of Software Alone Does Not Infringe a Claim That Requires Hardware

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SYNCHRONOSS TECHNOLOGIES, INC v. DROPBOX, INC. Before Prost, Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary: A claim construed to require hardware does not...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

DMCA Loosening the Reins for Education

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You may know the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) from the widely deployed DMCA take-down notices that copyright owners use to remove putatively infringing content from the Internet. Enacted in 1998, the DMCA is...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

USPTO Considers Best Practices to Improve Patent Application Quality

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In a Federal Register Notice published January, 13, 2013, the USPTO asks the public to consider potential best practices aimed at improving patent application quality ”in order to facilitate examination and bring more...more

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