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Patexia Insight 103: Patent Litigation Up 24 Percent in Q1 of 2021
The first quarter of 2021 just ended but several recent trials in Waco, Texas including the famous VLSI Technology vs. Intel, which resulted in a $2.18B verdict, garnered all the...
Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases
CASE OF THE WEEK Wi-LAN Inc. v. Sharp Electronics Corporation, Appeal Nos. 2020-1041, -1043 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 6, 2021) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit...
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Written by Scott Siera, Ph.D. and Eric Furman, Ph.D.
Seven years after Mylotarg® (gemtuzumab ozogamicin) was voluntarily withdrawn from the market, the U.S... Read More »
Written by Damien Howard and Ronald J. Schoenbaum
The Federal Circuit recently decided a patent subject-matter eligibility case relating to computer memory in... Read More »
Before returning to private practice, I practiced patent law in-house at two companies: first at a battery company, and then at an oil company. I’ve sat... Read More »
By Christopher Hall & Mike Gencarella
Here is an argument we are using in response to rejections under 35 USC §101 that allege the claims are directed ... Read More »
By David Crowe
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP
Many American companies depend on strong global sales of key products featuring innovative product... Read More »
Consulting giant Accenture has rattled the cage of the fintech community by filing a patent for an “editable” blockchain that would allow a central... Read More »
Comments
Pedram SameniInteresting! Thanks Bruce for sharing. I think the bigger question is how they are going to market this. The main reason for popularity of Bitcoin is because it is de-centralized like internet. Or are you suggesting that this can interoperate with Bitcoin blockchain protocol while it can be centralized?
Oct 5, 2016
IP CloseUpHi Pedram, I think some of patent filings are suggesting that it could be possible to have a blockchain within the blockchain, as it were, or a semi-opened network. That may undermine the inherent transparency that makes the network attractive in the first place, but in the end that type of “openness” may be more viable to some businesses.
Oct 6, 2016
The race is on to gain control of a new technology that has the power to reinvent banking and make transactions and other agreements between parties cheaper... Read More »
Taylor Swift, a pop star with sufficient power to move mountains, succeeded in moving an equally resolute object last year: Apple Music’s position on... Read More »
Patexia has lately learned from a number of sources that Samsung may be in the process of changing their filing strategy in the US. These sources indicated that... Read More »
There is a growing player grabbing attention in China’s IP scene. Ruichuan IPR Funds (睿创专利运营基金) is a complex organization with the potential to... Read More »
The new USPTO post grant review procedures under the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) are rapidly approaching the two and a half year mark. Over that time they... Read More »
Dilligent Patexia users may have noticed a new type of contest recently appear on our site: “commercial use” or “licensing” searches. In fact, ... Read More »
A main goal of the patent system is to incentivize innovation within an economy. Investment in the research and development of inventions can be substantial. Without... Read More »
Two weeks ago, on the first day of the new year, the world collectively switched to a new way of thinking about innovation. The switch was to a harmonized, collective ... Read More »
In 2012, Chinese inventors filed more patent applications than those in any other country--including the United States. In a recent Booz & Company report (Ed: now ... Read More »
A certain patent-holding company wants to enforce its patent--that is, prevent another company from making and selling the invention described in that patent. That... Read More »
Undoubtedly, 2012 was a big year for the intellectual property world. Significant developments not only in the United States at the USPTO but around the world will... Read More »
"In a sense, the patent system is itself a prize system, albeit a peculiar one."
In a 2007 paper Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University professor and... Read More »
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Looking back on 2012 and ahead to 2013, the... Read More »
Early this week the European Union finally accomplished what has long seemed highly unlikely--a unified European Patent known as the "unitary" patent... Read More »
