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
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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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Renewable energy technologies such as those that use biomass, solar energy, wind energy, etc. are of great interest due to the volatility of the oil market and concerns about the country’s dependence on foreign sources of oil. In this post, we look
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Software has perplexed the intellectual property community for some time. It seems beyond dispute that companies invest a great deal of money in developing software and that it can have great value. Most would agree that the investment companies make in software
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Patent applicants who are new to the patenting process often ask whether they need to do a patentability search prior to filing a patent application. The answer is it depends. Except in the case of applicants who are seeking to have the
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Before you begin spending money on the patenting process, it is important to clarify what you hope to achieve with patents. Too many times, we have encountered clients who dove into the process without a clear understanding of what they hoped to
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