Intellectual Property

News and expert analysis on IP developments from the courts to the USPTO.

  • Combatting PAE abuses with the current antitrust arsenal

    By Mark Popofsky, Jane Goldstein | February 21, 2014

    These examples illustrate that the antitrust laws, while not the remedy for all PAE ills, can and do provide constraints on PAE conduct.

    1 minute read

  • Butamax, Gevo patent dispute heats up

    By Juliana Kenny | February 20, 2014

    Butamax -- a maker of technology to produce biobutanol -- has been in a long patent dispute with Gevo -- a producer of renewable isobutanol. Each has claimed that the other violates its biofuel patents.

    1 minute read

  • Typo hits BlackBerry back, claims BlackBerry’s patents are invalid

    By Zach Warren | February 19, 2014

    Typo claims that it cannot infringe BlackBerrys patents because the Canadian smartphone makers claims do not actually comply with the legal requirements for patentability.

    1 minute read

  • Patent trolls get greedy across the globe

    By Amanda Ciccatelli | February 19, 2014

    But the U.S. isnt the only county patent trolls are affecting. Here is a rundown of patent troll activity in countries other than the U.S. and Europe.

    1 minute read

  • IP: Maybe we should let the dust settle or the swirling vortex of patent reform

    By Cyrus Morton | February 19, 2014

    Patience, they say, is a virtue. It may be in everyones best interest to take a deep breath, and let this all play out for a while.

    1 minute read

  • Samsung takes aggressive stance against Dyson

    By Rich Steeves | February 18, 2014

    Samsung has decided to fight back, treating Dyson like a troll. The electronics giant has filed a lawsuit against Dyson, to the tune of about $9 million. Samsung claims that the initial Dyson suit harmed its reputation.

    1 minute read

  • IP: Identification and disposal of unneeded IP assets

    By David E. Mixon, David Vance Lucas | February 18, 2014

    Disposal does not mean abandoning IP assets. The process should instead involve, as much as possible, the sale or divestiture of unneeded IP assets.

    1 minute read

  • IP: Supreme Court to redefine patent law’s definiteness standard

    By Sandip H. Patel | February 18, 2014

    The Supreme Court is poised, yet again, to decide an issue in <i>Nautilus v. Biosig</i> hardly requiring its review and one that Congress did not even consider in its recent wholesale revisions to the patent laws.

    1 minute read

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