• Flat Lens Patent Signals New Era in Optics and Imaging

    Flat Lens Patent Signals New Era in Optics and Imaging  WLNS Full coverage

     
  • Utility model patent regime

    We know that developing countries can strategically manipulate the “strength” of their invention patent regimes (e.g., laws) throughout different stages of development to facilitate a transition from imitation to innovation. However, we know very little about how changes to the strength of second-tier patent …

     
  • Challenging Pharmaceutical Patents, New Arrows in the Quiver?

    The Federal Circuit explained that this test was contrary to the law because it allows patentees to claim antibodies by describing something that is not the invention, i.e., the antigen, and thereby contradicts the statutory “quid pro quo” of the patent system where “one describes an invention, and, if the …

     
  • Fed. Circ. Clears Microsoft, Nintendo In Xbox, Wii IP Suit

    Baker’s patent covers technology that allows a computer to produce a personalized teaching presentation, according to… To view the full article, register now. Try Law360 FREE for seven days. Already a subscriber? Click here to login. Add to Briefcase; Printable Version · Rights/Reprints · Editorial …

     
  • Carbon Black To Pay Finjan $3.9M To End Weeks-Old IP Row

    Law360 (April 9, 2018, 6:05 PM EDT) — Cybersecurity company Carbon Black has agreed to pay $3.9 million in license fees to Finjan Inc., settling patent infringement allegations brought by the latter in California federal court just over two weeks ago, according to a Monday regulatory filing by Finjan.

     
  • Northern District of California Enforces Forum Selection Clause in License Agreement and Orders …

    Beginning in June 2017, defendants began to express dissatisfaction with both the terms of the MLA and plaintiff’s alleged failure to enforce its intellectual property rights against non-licensed third parties. Defendants informed plaintiff that they believed the allowed claims of the Patents-at-Issue were …

     
  • AT&T Settles Texas Suit Over Internet Filtering Patent

    Law360 (April 9, 2018, 4:20 PM EDT) — AT&T Corp. is finalizing settlement negotiations with an education technology company that accused the telecom giant’s web security services of infringing a once-invalidated patent for filtering internet content, the parties told a Texas federal judge Friday.

     
  • Intellectual Property Law Intern, Summer 2018

    Position 1: The student will get a realistic look at the patent agent/attorney profession, for example, the day-to-day responsibilities and challenges of a corporate patent professional. The student will also rotate throughout the law department, including areas relating to contract, trademark, regulatory and …

     
  • Judge Gilstrap rejects patent misuse defense to alleged FRAND-committed SEPs

    This decision is another indication that competition law claims asserted against SEPs may not prevail when patent owners have followed traditional patent enforcement and licensing strategies or even if they breach of a FRAND commitment. Rather, there must be something more egregious or deceptive …

     
  • ALJ Lord dismisses SEP licensing-based patent misuse defenses

    Administrative Law Judg (ALJ) Lord at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently issued an Order striking patent misuse claims against Philips.