• PTAB Won’t Rehear Yahoo’s Alice Challenges To Ad Patents

    Law360 (February 6, 2018, 8:29 PM EST) — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Monday denied Yahoo Inc.’s request for a second chance at convincing the board that two AlmondNet Inc. patents related to targeted advertising were ineligible under Alice, finding that it made no mistakes in assessing …

     
  • Lying Witness or Not, Merck Might Salvage $200M Verdict in Hep C Battle

    Merck is actually small potatoes in the larger patent war between the two pharma giants over a groundbreaking hepatitis C medicine. Merck obtained a $2.5 billion infringement judgment in Delaware against Gilead based on different patents. That verdict came down in December 2016, but U.S. District …

     
  • Eric T Jones Reising Law

    Jones, Intellectual Property Today, 2012. Druzinski. Federal Court for the Eastern District of Michigan U. Extended. King’s Itali Valleys of the Alps. ObviousAdvantageRevisited · DOWNLOAD & PRINT PDF · Previous Intellectual Property Law Firm Celebrates 140 Years · Next Paying (Inventors) to Play in …

     
  • Amazon Sues To Protect Web Service Users From Patent Suits

    Law360 (February 6, 2018, 6:13 PM EST) — Amazon.com Inc. went to bat for customers of its web services tools in California federal court Tuesday with a lawsuit seeking to end an infringement litigation campaign by a nonpracticing entity, arguing the patent holder had already lost its case when it …

     
  • Is it illegal to threaten someone for patent infringement for the patent that I don’t actually have?

    Yes, at least in the United States. I’d expect most of the world as well. At the very least, it’s likely an “unfair or deceptive trade practice” under federal law, 15 USC section 45. Many states have their own version of this federal statute, and …

     
  • Net Neutrality in the United States

    The author of four books, Yoo is recognized as one of the most cited scholars in administrative/regulatory law and intellectual property. He frequently testifies before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and foreign governments. He is currently serving as …

     
  • Patent Outline.docx – Intellectual Property PATENT LAW

    Intellectual Property PATENT LAW OBJECTIVES POLICY RATIONALES FOR PATENT PROTECTION o Utli±arian : economic incentve ±o crea±e & innova±e Captured in Const±utonal language that au±horizes Congress to make Pa±en± Law o Dissemina±e informaton overtme to the …

     
  • Christian Louboutin’s Signature Red Sole Trademark in Jeopardy in EU

    The French designer was dealt a blow by the European Union’s highest court today when Advocate General Maciej Szpunar sided with the defendant in a trademark suit Louboutin filed in 2012. At that time, the designer sued Dutch company Van Haren — which operates affordable footwear outlets in …

     
  • Former Biglaw Partner And ‘Prolific Money Launderer’ Sentenced To 7 Years In Jail

    Raymond Ho became a partner at Arent Fox at just 33 years old and worked at numerous prestigious law firms before opening up his own IP firm. But that illustrious page of his legal career is well over. In October, Ho pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy to commit... Continue reading

     
  • New IPO Guidelines for patent examination

    Aside from providing important definition of biotechnology-related terms in the context of patent law as well as examples of eligible and non-eligible subject matters, these guidelines put together the best practices when examining biotechnological inventions, and guide the examiners to the most …