If you own a patent, you enjoy the exclusive rights to make, use, sell, and offer for sale the underlying invention covered by that patent. Imagine if you own a patent and you decide to license the use of it to another entity. Then, the licensing entity embarks on an allegedly infringing activity. Whose burden Read more about Patent Wednesday: Revisiting Medtronic[…]
When the US Supreme Court elects to weigh in on matters of intellectual property, the legal landscape awaits their every word with bated breath. Two matters of the kind are currently before the Supreme Court: divided patent infringement liability and patentability of software. The adventure is just beginning. Divided Patent Infringement Liability: The Supreme Read more about IP News from the Supreme Court – December 2013[…]
If you own a patent, you know that you need to be aware of potential and actual infringers. After all, a patent grants an inventor the exclusive right to make, sell, and use an invention, and what good are those rights if someone else is doing just the same with an identical invention? Of course, Read more about How Invalidity can Trump Indirect Infringement: the Federal Circuit’s Decision in Commil v. Cisco[…]
If you own a patent, you know that you need to be aware of potential and actual infringers. After all, a patent grants an inventor the exclusive right to make, sell, and use an invention, and what good are those rights if someone else is doing just the same with an identical invention? Of course, Read more about How Invalidity can Trump Indirect Infringement: the Federal Circuit’s Decision in Commil v. Cisco[…]
Intellectual property law forbids the patenting of abstract ideas. After all, imagine if someone had patented the immutable laws of physics – that person could have an infringement case against everyone under the sun. But, is a software-based invention inherently too abstract an idea to be patented? Software programmers who want to file patents hope Read more about Software Patenting: Another Setback[…]