• Trump judicial nominee withdraws after being humiliated during confirmation hearing

    Their civil cases are even more varied — they handle everything from complex questions of patent law to antitrust to civil rights and constitutional law, plus many disputes under state law, which they hear as a result of various types of federal jurisdiction.1 They delegate some hearings and decisions to …

     
  • THE LATEST: Non-Infringement of a Patent Also Not an Antitrust Injury

    Cascades asserted that merely installing the Android mobile device operating system resulted in an infringement of this patent. In California, Cascades relied on antitrust law arguing the agreement between defendants not to purchase licenses amounted to a violation. Again, the ‘750 patent was …

     
  • Dozens of Law Firms Called It Quits in 2017

    Meanwhile, Chicago-based intellectual property boutique Niro Law, a firm that became known for filing lawsuits on behalf of patent trolls, announced in January it would close down, after the death of its founder. The IP boutique dissolution follows the closing of IP boutiques Kenyon & Kenyon as well as …

     
  • Full Fed. Circ. Won’t Revisit Return Mail Patent Ruling

    Law360, New York (December 18, 2017, 4:48 PM EST) — The Federal Circuit declined on Friday to rehear en banc a suit filed by Return Mail Inc. against the U.S. Postal Service over a patent on a system for handling undeliverable mail, upholding the panel’s August opinion that the federal... Continue reading

     
  • MSF challenges Gilead’s patent application for hepatitis C combination treatment in China, to bring …

    [MSF, Link] Geneva, 18 December 2017 – The international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has filed a legal patent challenge in China against US pharmaceutical corporation Gilead’s patent application for the combination of two crucial oral hepatitis C medicines, …

     
  • Should This Sandwich Be Copyrighted?

    Intellectual property law exists for a reason. It’s what keeps artists, authors, and inventors of all stripes from having their work ripped off. While the concept of what can be protected is usually pretty clear-cut, one recent instance of alleged sandwich forgery has some wondering just how a copyright case …

     
  • Gilead faces a hepatitis C patent challenge in China by Doctors Without Borders

    n the latest effort to mitigate the cost of hepatitis C drugs in a poor country, Doctors Without Borders is challenging a patent application that Gilead Sciences filed in China for its newest treatment. … Doctors Without Borders argued the patents Gilead is seeking are not warranted under Chinese law.

     
  • Three Cybersecurity Predictions for 2018

    … admins–not unlike how nuclear launch keys work–to get access to the data of a whole organization. Amanda G. Ciccatelli is a Freelance Journalist for Corporate Counsel and InsideCounsel, where she covers intellectual property, legal technology, patent litigation, cybersecurity, innovation, and more.

     
  • Manatt Expands Federal Government Group in Washington, DC

    John Thune, where he advised Senate Republicans through the passage of the America Invents Act, the most significant piece of patent reform legislation in half a century. Earlier, he served as special assistant to Secretary of Labor R. Alexander Acosta when he was assistant attorney general for civil …

     
  • Trinidad Prime Minister Threatens Legal Action Over “Patent Falsehood” by Legislator

    … Moonilal or any other person contradictory to this are nothing but patent falsehoods concocted by such persons as a deliberate slanderous conspiracy for self-serving political gain,” he said. Rowley added that he would “defend his family and his good name to the fullest extent that the law provides”.