As a follow-up to our original post on the Prometheus case, we did a search to see if there were other patents related to the ones struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, i.e., U.S. Patent No. 6,355,623 and 6,680,302. These patents
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If your business is based on patented diagnostic test methods, you may want to pay attention today’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. In this case, the Court unanimously reversed the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
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Selecting a patent lawyer, or any lawyer, can be challenging. Especially if you are new to the patent process, it can be difficult to know what to look for or what questions to ask. We have developed some tips that can
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The patent infringement lawsuit filed by Yahoo on Monday has caused quite a stir. Not only has the timing of the suit raised eyebrows because of Facebook’s impending IPO, but so has the subject matter of the patents-in-suit. A closer look at
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The emergence of so-called “patent trolls” or their less pejorative name “non-practicing entities” (NPEs) has been a controversial topic for some time now. Those who become frequent target of NPE lawsuits are understandably hostile to NPEs or anything that increases their litigation
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One of the most frequently misunderstood concepts in patent law is that it is a negative monopoly. That means a patent provides a right to exclude other people from making, using, selling, offering to sell or importing what the patent claims.
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