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Canadian firm Ridout & Maybee LLP is celebrating its 125th anniversary and pointed out that its founders were behind Canada Patent Number 1. It got us to thinking… the first patent in the United States was issued to Samuel Hopkins in 1790 for “the making ______ by a new Apparatus... Continue reading
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Gregory J. Leighton is a member of Neal Gerber Eisenberg’s Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions practice group and is also a registered patent attorney. Greg’s practice involves both patent prosecution and the protection and enforcement of various forms of intellectual property. One key …
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Welcome to another swinging patent pendulum edition of Skilled in the Art. I’m Law.com IP reporter Scott Graham and I’ve got news of the first potential blockbuster patent decision of 2018, even as I digest the 2017 Patent Year in Review as told by Lex Machina. As always, email me... Continue reading
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CLS Bank Int’l case set forth a two-part test to determine whether claims are directed to patent-eligible subject matter under § 101. One must first decide whether the claim at hand is directed to a judicially-excluded law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea. If so, then one... Continue reading
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PATENT LAW IS SO MUCH FUN · benny1982. Today, 1:44pm. I’m forgetting the name of that river in Egypt. rcbyufan. Today, 1:50pm. RE: PATENT LAW IS SO MUCH FUN · HuskerFan2. Today, 1:56pm. RE: Non-Loser Lawyer Jobs · BoiseBlue. Today, 1:45pm. Gotta be honest, none of those sound “fun” …
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Veeco Instruments settles patent issue with competitors Newsday Veeco, AMEC, and SGL Settle Patent Litigation GlobeNewswire (press release) Veeco, AMC And SGL Settle Patent Dispute Compound Semiconductor Full coverage
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Law360 (February 9, 2018, 4:02 PM EST) — This week in intellectual property attorney moves, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP scored a top intellectual property litigator, Arnold & Porter nabbed a pair of media and entertainment partners but lost a patent attorney to Venable LLP, and Buchalter PC landed …
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Mr. Iancu has also taught patent law at the UCLA School of Law, and has written and spoken publicly on a variety of intellectual property issues. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Iancu was an engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company. Throughout his career, many organizations have recognized Mr. Iancu for... Continue reading
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The main fumble related to intellectual property. Mr. McColl describes how some of what Hibar saw as proprietary technology was, in his words, “borrowed” by Chinese competitors. With limited knowledge of local IP law, and grappling with the limitations of pre-internet international communications, …
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Facebook’s patent plan for “Socioeconomic Group Classification Based on User Features” uses different data sources and qualifiers to determine whether a user is “working class,” “middle class … According to Kun, under US law, a practice can be considered discriminatory “even in the absence of intent.
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