In re Swanson will likely have the effect of encouraging even more third-party ex parte re-examination requests, while only discouraging an applicant's incentive to perform a patent search to provide the best art to the PTO.
The August 2008 ruling in Io Group, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc., has been widely heralded as a win for online service providers in the legal maelstrom surrounding social media.
Gripe sites are Web sites whose purpose is to complain, criticize, and revile businesses or other institutions. So, what to do.
Who's doing what; who's going where.
The time it takes to develop a good IP strategy depends on the complexity of the situation or issue. We can't make IP strategy development immediate and still be useful, but we can make it more efficient, especially when pulling together a team to develop the strategy. So here are some tips that can help shorten the time it takes to develop a good strategy.
Patent owners whose IP rights are being infringed by imported goods have a choice of filing a patent infringement complaint in a district court or an unfair trade practice complaint, pursuant to '337 of the Tariff Act, with the U.S. International Trade Commission ("ITC"). There are several advantages in litigating patent disputes in the ITC.
The determination of damages for patent infringement by way of a reasonable royalty is no simple matter, typically requiring sophisticated expert opinion testimony.
This article highlights key issues to consider when preparing employee separation agreements.
In an ideal world, a business would have a patent practitioner everywhere at once: in the lab, in the office, and in the boardroom. The purpose of this article is to interpret a sphere of patent law related to the description of biological inventions in terms that are practical for researchers and business managers in the biotech industry who live in a non-ideal world.
In efforts to increase transparency, manage demand, and streamline back-office operations, law firms are looking at automation opportunities within the procure-to-pay cycle. A well-defined Purchasing Card ("P-Card") program is one tool available to law firms which requires little or no upfront investment, yet yields many of the controls, efficiencies, and transparencies that law firms and their clients seek.
