• Patent Office Puts Allergan’s Mohawk Deal Out Of Its Misery

    Source: GW Law – The George Washington University. In a much-anticipated ruling the Patent Trial And Appeal Board (“PTAB”) of the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office ruled the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe could not claim sovereign immunity to void an inter partes review (“IPR”) for dry-eye drug Restasis:.

     
  • Microbiome patent update

    February 23, 2018. Patent Law Alert. Author(s): Mark James FitzGerald, Ph.D., David S. Resnick. In this issue: Analyses of interesting claims of some recently issued U.S. patents; Notes on microbiome-related patents challenged under the Opposition procedure in the European Patent Office; Some …

     
  • Decided Guidance: Case Examinations—Taylor and Quarles v. Brown

    It came up with this answer “It is a fact of universal notoriety in Virginia not only that the old military surveys but that the old patents of that country generally contain a greater quantity of land than the patents call for. The ancient law of Virginia notices this fact... Continue reading

     
  • Fish & Richardson client prevails in reversal of $2.5 billion jury verdict in Del.

    Fish & Richardson won a motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law (JMOL) that reversed a $2.5 billion jury verdict against its client Gilead Sciences Inc. in … Fish has been representing Gilead for over five years in its worldwide, complex patent battle with Merck and Idenix (now owned... Continue reading

     
  • A New § 101 Trio Shows That We Don’t Need § 101 Legislation

    At the outset, I have serious concerns about these cases, concerns shared by other commentators on patent law. In Berkheimer, the Federal Circuit relied on statements in the patent’s specification to reach the conclusion that a feature wasn’t routine and conventional. These statements weren’t detailed …

     
  • Blackbird Technologies to Appeal Ineligibility Ruling in Cloudflare Patent Infringement Litigation

    In step one, the court looks at whether the claims at issue are directed towards a patent-ineligible concept, such as a law of nature or an abstract idea. In step two, the court looks at any element or combination of elements in the claims at issue which constitute an inventive... Continue reading

     
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  • Patent lawyer jobs

    I began to consider patent law as a career after working Patent law jobs exist in many settings, not just at law How are the job prospects for patent attorneys relative to other attorneys upon graduating from law school? By Karen Imgrund Deak, PhD; Director of Notre Dame’s MS in... Continue reading

     
  • Kyle D. Coogan

    Kyle Coogan practices general intellectual property law with a focus on patent litigation and prosecution and an emphasis on electrical and computer engineering. While in law school, he was a student attorney in the Start-Up Ventures Clinic, counseling Research Triangle start-ups and entrepreneurs on …

     
  • Why Patent Contingency Litigation is Declining?

    To get to story behind declining contingency litigation, IPWatchdog recently sat down withPaul Storm, partner in Gardere’s Intellectual Property Practice, and Edward C. Kwok, partner in VLP Law Group’s Intellectual Property Practice. According to Storm, the decline in contingency representation over the …