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June 20, 2007 |

The Science of Blobs

Keep it simple. That is patent attorney Leora Ben-Ami's most useful legal strategy, and it most recently won her one of the largest intellectual property verdicts of the year.
4 minute read
May 31, 2010 |

Patent Litigation Weekly: Who is Driving the False-Marking Frenzy?

This week, false marking suits have grabbed the attention of the patent bar — and Congress. A review of the more than 200 false marking lawsuits brought in the past several months shows that a big chunk of them have been brought by lawyer-plaintiffs.
14 minute read
October 11, 2007 |

Patent review plan draws praise

5 minute read
August 12, 2008 |

New Light on the BlackBerry Litigation

"FYI -- It just happened again." So begins an internal Patent and Trademark Office e-mail released under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests made by attorneys for NTP, Inc., the patent-holding company that sued BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion Limited. An attorney for RIM "was found wandering around on the eighth floor today," the e-mail continues. Another PTO e-mail warns "examiners to keep their doors locked," after reporting how "an elderly gentleman walked into my office inquiring as to the status of the NTP reexams." The same writer noted, "Seems these third parties are getting a little creative in how they try to access information that should not be made available to them."
8 minute read
April 28, 2003 |

PTO: Fees, Please

5 minute read
June 14, 2013 |

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Human Gene Patents

Reversing decades of federal patent awards, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that human genes and the information they encode are not patent-eligible.
6 minute read
October 25, 2005 |

Human Mind Prevails in Patent Win

Economist Carl Lundgren has performed the patent equivalent of the Hail Mary pass in football. His 1988 method of calculating pay for managers to prevent collusion in oligopolies won approval last week from a Board of Patent Appeals and Interference in a rare precedential decision. The administrative ruling reinstating patent protection is expected to launch a new wave of business method patent applications after years of quiet denials by patent examiners.
3 minute read
February 18, 2003 |

Opposition to Reform Has Scaled Back PTO Overhaul

Reacting to opposition from the patent community and Congress, the Patent and Trademark Office curtailed its ambitious plans to overhaul the patent application process. Now, under its revised proposal, application fees would still go up, but the so-called punitive fees are out the window. John Todaro, senior counsel at Darby & Darby, echoed a commonly held view that overall, the finalized proposal is "something we could live with."
5 minute read
March 13, 2003 |

The Great Defender

Late last year, Robert Armitage was promoted to a post very few patent lawyers ever achieve -- general counsel to a Fortune 500 company. Besides running his in-house legal staff at Eli Lilly & Co., Armitage expects to spend a lot of time on the stump as a public advocate for the pharmaceutical industry. At the top of his agenda: patents, generic drugs and developing nations' access to drugs.
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