The Business of Patents
When I talk to lawyers who do not practice patent law, they often speak of the complexity of patent cases in terms of the scientific or technological issues involved. What many of them fail to understand is that quite apart from the technology, the law itself is very complex. Lawyers and judges often have difficulty […]
Read more →On April 3 Facebook answered Yahoo’s patent infringement complaint in the pending lawsuit in the Northern District of California. As many people predicted, Facebook also alleged patent infringement claims against Yahoo based on 10 of Facebook’s patents. We discussed Yahoo’s patents and the likelihood that statutory subject matter issues would play a prominent role in […]
Read more →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 issued in 2002 and 2004, respectively. In 2006 the same inventors obtained a […]
Read more →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 Yahoo’s patents reveals that the validity of many of their claims may turn […]
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