• IP Hires: Davis Polk, Arnold & Porter, Buchalter

    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 …

     
  • Andrei Iancu Begins Role as New Director of USPTO

    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

     
  • Facebook patents tech to determine social class

    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.

     
  • Intellectual Property Law Section accepting applications for women and minority law student …

    The Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Texas is seeking applications for two $2500 scholarships that will go to women and/or minority l.

     
  • Five big agenda items for the Patent Office’s new director

    Proceedings like inter partes review work well because, in large part, they are run by expert judges of an expert agency with experience in patent law and technology. Certainly, there are procedural elements for the USPTO to refine. But the agency should reject critics’ calls to eliminate the proceedings …

     
  • Facebook patents tech to determine social class

    Facebook’s algorithm may not be making illegal decisions, but it is absolutely facilitating humans to do so. Welcoming them to it, actually. Not that Facebook lets the law deter them from making a buck. I mean, c’mon. It’s not too hard to think of ways Russia’s state-sponsored propaganda trolls will... Continue reading

     
  • Message from the Chair

    Intellectual Property Law Section Members: Welcome to the State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Law Section website. The section’s officers and section members look forward to working for you and all of the section’s nearly 2500 members during the 2015-2016 membership year. The Intellectual …

     
  • Federal Circuit: Walker Process Claims do not Arise Under US Patent Law

    Federal Circuit: Walker Process Claims do not Arise Under US Patent Law  Patently-O Full coverage

     
  • Federal Circuit: Walker Process Claims do not Arise Under US Patent Law

    Acting sua sponte, the Federal Circuit has transferred this appeal to the Fifth Circuit – holding that the Walker Process monopolization case does not arise under the U.S. Patent Laws as required by the appellate court’s jurisdiction statute 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(1). This decision reverses the court’s position …

     
  • Personnel Changes at IP Law Firms, Organization

    R. David Whitaker has left Buckley Sandler LLP, Chicago, to join DLA Piper, Chicago, as partner in the firm’s intellectual property and technology practice. • Four media and entertainment attorneys have left DLA Piper, Los Angeles, to join IP law firm Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles: Stanton “Larry” …