• European Commission Communications on IP Rights

    Article 14 of IPRED applies to legal costs, which includes lawyers’ fees, as well as to other costs directly and closely related to the judicial proceedings concerned. The latter includes costs incurred for the services of a technical adviser, where those services are essential in order for a legal action... Continue reading

     
  • Quinn Emanuel Sets Up Shop in Boston

    Curran anticipates that the Boston office will handle traditional contractual disputes, competitor disputes, regulatory investigations, and other issues, he told Bloomberg Law in a Dec. 27 interview. Curran focuses on IP, as well as securities litigation and financial litigation. He’s represented EMC, Google, …

     
  • Patent Claims Explained

    Patent Claims Explained. This video provides a basic explanation of how patent claims work. If you want to gain a basic understanding of how claims relate to aninvention then this video is for you. Tags: Patent Claims Explained, Patent (Legal Subject), Intellectual Property (Literature Subject), Claim, …

     
  • Legal Practice Assistant

    FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best Places to Work for 15th Year in a Row! The Palo Alto office of Perkins Coie LLP has an immediate opening for a Legal Practice Assistant (fka Legal Secretary) to work with…

     
  • SpinalCyte, LLC Announces 25

    SpinalCyte, LLC Announces 25  Business Wire (press release) Full coverage

     
  • Medical Patent Law Weekly

    Medical Patent Law Weekly (12/27/2017). Medical Patent Law Weekly covers new and ongoing law suits pertaining to new drugs, genetic discoveries, and medical materials and devices for pharma and biotech executives and legal counsels, including patent and licensing disputes, contract negotiations …

     
  • My Health, Inc. v. ALR Technologies, Inc. (ED Tex. 2017)

    It is a reality not needing emphasis or reiteration that the extent of subject matter eligibility in patent law has been in turmoil following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in Bilski v. Kappos, Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs, AMP v. Myriad Genetics, and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l.... Continue reading

     
  • European patent law Leads. European patent law email lists

    Russian, Patent Prosecution, Patent Litigation, Patents, Litigation, Invention, IP due diligence, Life Sciences, Lifesciences, Biotechnology, Due Diligence, Registered Patent Attorney, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Trade Secrets, Prior Art Search, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology …

     
  • Issue Ten: PTAB Trial Tracker

    The Board further found that allowing a patent owner to selectively assert its 11th Amendment immunity to prevent a petitioner from obtaining the benefits of an IPR … The SOP indicates that a change in the law or new or revised claim construction not previously considered may lead to additional... Continue reading

     
  • Feroz Ali & Sudarsan Rajagopal: How India rejects bad patents

    In 2005, India made some remarkable amendments to the Indian Patents Act of 1970, to keep medicines affordable in the country. Since then we have faced a significant blowback not just from the global pharmaceutical industry but also from developed world including from the US and the European …