• Nebraska committee sees improved level of discourse

    “I appreciate the sparring back and forth.” Hilgers said he’s often participated in legal debates when he appears in court for patent or commercial disputes he handles for his Lincoln law firm. “The people who testify in front of the committee tend to be very smart, they tend to be... Continue reading

     
  • Nebraska committee sees improved level of discourse

    Recent debates have included discussions of “The Federalist Papers” and a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Indiana’s voter identification law. “In past … Hilgers said he’s often participated in legal debates when he appears in court for patent or commercial disputes he handles for his Lincoln law firm.

     
  • Alice/§ 101 is Improving the Quality of Patents in the United States and Patent Law Firms Are …

    It’s OK to grant fewer patents, the important thing is quality, not quantity. It’s always about quality, not numbers. China amasses patents by the millions, but that doesn’t mean China is ahead. Litigation is China in soaring and it’s not necessarily a good thing (unless you work for a law... Continue reading

     
  • Hongda Li

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  • BRIEF—European Commission’s latest report on pharma patent settlements

    The eight monitoring exercises have shown that the Commission’s enforcement activities in this area do not discourage companies from settling their patent disputes. The number of settlements that might attract competition law scrutiny has progressively decreased since the 2008 pharmaceutical sector …

     
  • Senators Introduce Legislation to Limit Sovereign Immunity From Patent Challenges

    This week, Senators Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, and Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri introduced the Preserving Access to Cost-Effective Drugs (PACED) Act in response to Allergan’s recent transfer of its patents covering its dry-eye drug, Restasis, to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe in exchange for the Tribe’s …

     
  • MaxVal to Sponsor 9th Global IP Exchange 2018, Berlin, Germany

    MaxVal, a fast-growing IP management company, helps companies and law firms across the globe manage their intellectual assets efficiently and effectively. MaxVal’s Symphony®, a data-driven IP management solution that integrates all aspects of IP management into a single platform which …

     
  • Patent Paralegal

    Are you currently working as a Patent Paralegal? Or, perhaps you’re in a patent secretarial position looking to take the …See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

     
  • Patent infringement on a very simple invention?

    Patent infringement actions can be very expensive even if you win; they can be ruinously expensive if you lose. Consult in detail with a patent law attorney about whether your proposed device infringes and, if it does, what your chance of litigation success is. Bring the attorney a model or... Continue reading

     
  • SEMINAR: Derivative Works in Copyright and Improvement Inventions in Patent Law

    “In patent law, subsequent innovators can patent an improvement of an existing patented invention, and then negotiate a license with the initial patent owner. So, while in patent law the rule for improvers is “invent first, and then bargain with the patent owner over the allocation of rights to the... Continue reading