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Enforcing and Attacking e-Commerce Patents

The validity of business method patents may be the lifeblood of an e-commerce enterprise. After all, nearly every successful Web site or Web-based service has at its core some intellectual property. Here we consider the enactment of the new local patent rules for the District of New Jersey, which became effective Jan. 1 and how they reflect on New Jersey as a suitable venue for patent suits.

27 minute read July 24, 2009 at 02:08 PM
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Stephen P. Pazan
Enforcing and Attacking e-Commerce Patents

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal from In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943 (Fed. Cir. 2008), in which the Federal Circuit retreated from the broad language supporting business method patents previously endorsed by State Street Bank & Trust v.

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