Patent medicine
Victoria Pynchon collects and reflects on some of the recent thinking about whether patent litigation makes any sense for anyone besides patent ligitators. Originally posted... Read more
Category: Patents
Coming soon to a bridge under you
Patent Litigation Weekly has a fascinating article about what tangled webs we — well, not we, but patent lawyers — weave when they become, er,... Read more
An army of patent avengers
A New Zealand actor’s quest for revenge against Amazon for the minor inconvenience of having to wait for a book has spurred the PTO to... Read more
Experimental use exception to patent infringement
I get press releases. And, the fact is, I usually read them, eventually. A few days ago I got one, same as the page at... Read more
The ‘nother of invention
What’s all this I hear about the Supreme Court’s opinion in Stanford v. Roche? I do some patent litigation, yes, but I leave the heavy lifting... Read more
Sounds good to me!
Hello? Walter Olson: The patenting of software, in contrast to the patenting of chemical and pharmaceutical compounds, generates relatively high litigation costs and low benefits... Read more
"If I’m a new inventor, I’m going to get sued right away."
Surprisingly, it was Antonin the Great who said that, according to an AP Report on today’s Grokster action. And in this regard he and I... Read more
Patent trolls (NB: this is not about patent lawyers)
Dean Esmay has a link, and then some, on patent trolling, including an ethnic angle of interest. Originally posted 2010-04-13 09:52:45. Republished by Blog Post... Read more
What a Mess
Dennis Crouch surveys the latest developments on the patent doctrine of “Inequitable Conduct Based on Failure to Submit.” If you’re not a patent lawyer (by... Read more
The Only Good Patent
… is a smiley patent! (Most aren’t.) I got a heads-up on this one from the editor of Blawg Review, but before I could slip... Read more
Where nobody knows your name
I subbed for a more important lawyer on a panel for the American Intellectual Property Association Spring Meeting in New York today (May 7, 2010).... Read more
IPod Patent Punctured
PC Pro reports Apple fails to patent the iPod interface Apple has failed in an attempt to patent the iPod interface after the United States... Read more
Rogue phOne: A Design Wars Story
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… in a May 2016 blog post entitled “Design Patents at the Supreme Court: A Picture is Worth…”... Read more
Consensus in Cleveland
Far be it from me to compare myself to the distinguished former Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit, the Hon. Paul R. Michel — but... Read more