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Patent Litigation Weekly — Inside Google's Second Patent Trial
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Earlier this month, lawyers from Google and Yahoo dismantled a notorious Spangenberg patent. That leaves Google's perfect troll-fighting record intact.
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Patent Litigation Weekly: Post-Bilski, Some Things Still Don't Merit a Patent
Corporate Counsel
In the first infringement case decided in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Bilski ruling, a federal judge invalidates a patent by ruling that simply putting technology 'on the Internet' doesn't make the cut.
Patent Litigation Weekly: IP Law Firms Sued ... for Infringing Patents?
Corporate Counsel
Patent firms are trained to either dish out pain or parry blows on behalf of others. Rarely do they find themselves accused of infringement. Now, eight firms are in just that position, thanks to a lawyer who holds patents on software for managing online payments.
Fair Use Fans Cheer: Tonight There's Gonna Be a Jailbreak!
Corporate Counsel
A Copyright Office ruling allows exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will loooooosen Apple's grip on its popular smartphone.
Patent Litigation Weekly: Surveying the Patent Landscape, Post-Bilski
Corporate Counsel
Well, we finally got it — and it seems that patent bar members' fears were misplaced. This week, The Prior Art considers the aftermath of the Supreme Court's business-method decision. | Read the Opinion (pdf)
And Then There Were ... 16! Companies Hammered With Suits From Patent-Hoarder
Corporate Counsel
A whopping 16 more companies find themselves on the receiving end of allegations that they had infringed patents once held by Intellectual Ventures — all of them sued by the freshly formed Oasis Research.
Judgment Entered in Epic Fight Over Artificial Blood Vessel
The American Lawyer
In what The American Lawyer has dubbed "one of the longest, strangest patent cases on record," W.L. Gore & Associates is now on the hook to C.R. Bard, Inc., for just shy of $660 million.
Microsoft in Last-Ditch Bid for Supreme Court to Overturn $290 Million Judgment for i4i
The American Lawyer
With Microsoft's expanded appellate team failing to persuade the Federal Circuit to rehear the patent infringement case en banc, the software giant is down to its last hope.
Kirkland Loses Another IP Partner as Pharma Patent Litigator Joins Paul Hastings.
The American Lawyer
In another blow to Kirkland & Ellis's intellectual property practice, partner Gerald Flattmann Jr., who specializes in pharmaceutical and biotech patent litigation, has told the firm he's leaving for Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.
Despite Broad Holding on Whistle-blower Standing in False Marking Cases, Pleading Hurdle is High
The American Lawyer
Patent practitioners see an upside in the Federal Circuit's ruling.
Trying New Theories of Liability Like a Parisian Woman Tries on Leopard Skin
The American Lawyer
How else to explain the sudden wave of suits brought against companies for intentionally putting false patent information on their products? More than a hundred such cases have been filed since December.
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In ACLU Suit, Judge Rules Myriad Genetic Patents Invalid
In a potentially major blow to the biotechnology industry, federal district court Judge Robert Sweet said the patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes cover parts of the natural world and are therefore invalid under the nation's patent laws.
Who Protects Innovation in America 2009: The Guardians
Which law firms do the country’s biggest corporations turn to when they need help obtaining, asserting, and defending their valuable intellectual property?
Patent Litigation Survey 2009: A Little Less Buzz
Our survey shows that patent litigators continued to be busy in 2008, though by the time the year ended, they were definitely feeling the recession’s sting.
ITC Survey 2010: Casting a Wider Net
What's new in patent litigation at the International Trade Commission.
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Paul Allen Sues the Internet (Or, at Least Every Major Company ...)
Corporate Counsel
Microsoft co-founder files a patent suit against some big names including AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Yahoo and YouTube. Also named are Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples (whew!).
Whoa, Hold On Here ... Judge Raises Questions About Mitsubishi Strategy
The American Lawyer
In the bitter fight over wind turbine technology, did Mitsubishi and its lawyers make a mistake by claiming fraud against GE in an Arkansas antitrust case instead of as an inequitable conduct defense in GE's Dallas infringement suit?
Photos Finished: Ansel Adams Trust Sues to Block Prints From 'Lost Negatives'
The American Lawyer
Regardless of whether the negatives — said to be worth $200 million — were Adams' work, the trust that owns the famed photographer's intellectual property says any prints created from them are unauthorized and illegal under the Lanham Act.
BRUTAL TD: $30M Win in Hard-Fought Football Helmet Infringement Trial
The American Lawyer
To hear Riddell Sports's lead counsel at law firm Perkins Coie tell the tale, the infringement trial against rival Kirkland & Ellis was as ferocious as a goal-line stand at a playoff game.
