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[…]
Our home state of New Jersey was front and center in the sports world this year for Super Bowl XLVIII. But, from an industrial standpoint, New Jersey is often viewed as a leader in one particular business: pharmaceuticals. On January 17, 2014, Judge Joel A. Pisano of the District of New Jersey sided with Warner Read more about Victory for the Patent Holder – Warner Chilcott v. Lupin and Amneal[…]
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[…]
Simply stated, flavors and fragrances are patentable, but that’s only half the story. A little background on patents is warranted before we explore the patentability of flavors and fragrances Patent law protects “new and useful processes, machines, compositions of matter, and new and useful improvements thereof.” Patent protection is granted to inventions that are useful, Read more about DO YOU HAVE A TASTE FOR PATENTS? Exploring the patentability of flavors and fragrances[…]