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View ArticleUS high court ruling leaves questions on software patent eligibility
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View ArticleWill Obama’s proposals rein in patent trolls?
The Obama Administration has announced five executive actions and seven legislative proposals aimed at holding back the tsunami of litigation by patent trolls, and lawyers are weighing in on whether...
View ArticleSupreme Court nixes human gene patents
In a decision that seemed designed to carve out a middle ground in the legal battle over whether companies can hold exclusive rights in the use of biological material, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled...
View ArticleBoutique firm founder not afraid to take leap of faith
Toby Reynolds tried to avoid following in his lawyer father’s footsteps, but the pull of law was too strong.
View ArticlePatent ruling leaves lingering questions on burden of proof
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC No. 12-1128, clarified the burden shifting framework for certain types of claims stemming from patent licensing...
View ArticleJustices struggle over attorney fees in patent troll cases
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court wrangled over the language of a statute that allows prevailing parties in certain patent infringement cases to recoup attorney fees — an issue that could mean...
View ArticleUS justices struggle with software patentability
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are facing the difficult task of determining whether computer-implemented software programs that draw on non-computerized principles — a category that could...
View ArticleLast patent case of the term could end in a bust
In the last oral argument of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday took up a closely watched patent case that practitioners hoped would establish a standard for indirect patent infringement.
View ArticleUS high court ruling leaves questions on software patent eligibility
The U.S. Supreme Court held last week that some, but not all, computer-implemented software functions are too abstract to qualify for a patent.
View ArticleLawyers hope court’s ruling limits patent suits
While everyone has been fixated on patent trolls, experts say a different breed of abusive intellectual-property litigants have been making a comeback: businesses that assert dubious patents for...
View ArticlePatent attorneys try to keep pace, land large verdicts in Western District
A cottage industry has developed around the so-called “rocket docket” of the Western District of Wisconsin, the speed of which has attracted plaintiffs in patent cases.
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