Patent Law

A Patent Blog: Patently-O
I keep explaining that I do,actually cannot, practice patent law. I am convinced that a great weakness for many businesses is not knowing enough about patent law. With that in mind, you should check out Patently-O...

Patently Protectionist
I was recently contacted by reader and author, Colleen V. Chien, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law. She has written a paper on the International Trade Commission titled, "Patently Protectionist? An Empirical Analysis of Patent Cases at the...

Patently Stalled
Earlier this month, the Law Blog reported on a big patent decision in Tafas v. Dudas, where a district judge voided PTO rules that sought to streamline the patent application process...

Patently Obvious
Over at TechDirt, a comment on the idea, now espoused by at least one patent lawyer, that multiple inventions of the same thing at the same time should be taken as evidence that the invention is ‘obvious’ enough not to warrant a patent.

The "real" story on the origin of patent troll
IAM has a post The real inventors of the term "patent troll" revealed which brings up the claim of Anne Gundelfinger to originating the term "patent troll." There's some discussion of it being a more palatable substitute for patent extortionist...

Interesting Editorial on the Subject of Patent Reform in this Presidential Election
Yesterday the patent blog Patently-O had an interesting guest editorial on the subject of the presidential candidates? respective positions (or absence thereof) on U.S. patent reform...

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.

Sony
to Pay $18.5 Million For Patent Infringment

Qualcomm Settles Patent Suit for $891 Million

The Princeton Review
$2.6 million settlement reached in patent infringement case.