Patent Law

Patent Review Committees as a management microcosm four general management lessons
Companies that generate even a modest number of potentially patentable ideas almost always put in place a group that reviews the invention disclosures and determines which of them ought to be patented and in which jurisdictions...

Patent Office on Patent Reform
USPTO management posted on its internal agency website a position statement concerning changes in pending patent law. The patent office strongly opposes damages apportionment, while supporting the new post-grant opposition regime...

"Can States Have Their (Patent) Cake and Eat It, Too"
So asks the Patent Baristas blog in discussing the sovereign-immunity issues of Biomedical Patent Management v. State Of California and the related cert petition. The Wall Street Journal discussed the issue November 13...

Grinding
Congress Daily reported last Thursday that "more than 20 high-tech and financial services industry executives, as well as corporate patent counsels," met "with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah...

U. S. Patent Office Will Continue To Re-Examine Blackboard Patent
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the U.S. Patent Office has denied a request from Blackboard, the course management software company, to stay a review of a patent the Office had granted the company...

9th Circuit Modifies Local Patent Rules
The local patent rules for the Northern District of California have always been viewed both by those in our district as well as other patent lawyers and judges as the leading edge for thoughtful and efficient management of patent litigation...

Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

DRAM Patent
ProMOS Technologies and Mosel Vitelic pay MOSAID Technologies an undisclosed patent infringement settlement.

Sunwest Management Inc.
allegedly misled residents about staff and daily care.

Federal Emergency Management Agency
Trailers Contain Toxic Formaldehyde Fumes

Fidelity Management & Research Company
401k / ERISA Stock Fraud