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February 25, 2016
Supreme Court Case on Enhanced Damages
When can a patent owner obtain enhanced damages in a successful suit for patent infringement? What is the relationship between the standard for awarding enhanced damages and awarding attorney’s fees in patent cases? These and other questions were debated before the Supreme Court on February 23, 2016, in a pair of consolidated cases, Halo Electronics v. Pulse Electronics and Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer. The final decision, to be announced in the next few months, will affect patent practice as well as the pace of technology development and litigation.
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Technology Commercialization Law Program Co-Hosts Intellectual Property Roundtable
The College of Law’s Technology Commercialization Law Program (TCLP) recently co-hosted the Business Roundtable Discussion on the Importance of Intellectual Property to Innovation, Creativity and Jobs
Read MoreApril 30, 2015
Goldman Sachs Programmer on Trial for “Stolen Code”
Sergey Aleynikov is a former Goldman Sachs computer programmer who in 2009 was charged in federal court with violating the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) and the National Stolen Property Act (NSPA) after it was found that he had e-mailed himself 8 megabytes of source code four separate times that came… Read More»
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2015
Kimble vs. Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc. March 31, 2015. The decision before the Court is whether to overrule Brulotte v. Thys Co., holding a “patentee’s use of a royalty agreement that projects beyond the expiration date of the patent is unlawful per se.”
Read MoreCommil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. in March 2015. The decision before the Court is whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that a defendant’s good-faith belief that a patent is invalid is a defense to induced infringement.
Read MoreDecember 22, 2014
Versata v. SAP and Implications for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board
In 2011 Congress passed the America Invents Act (AIA) which provided the most significant change to the U.S. patent system since 1952. Several of the biggest changes were related to the formation and operation of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), an administrative body of the U.S. Patent and Trademark… Read More»
Read MoreDisruptive Technologies and the Struggle for Regulation
Occasionally innovations move so quickly or are so novel that legislative and regulatory bodies can have a hard time keeping up. Recently, this struggle has been exemplified in the Federal Aviation Administration’s dealings with drones, or unmanned aerial systems (UAS), for commercial use. The FAA has authority to regulate and… Read More»
Read MoreVenture Philanthropy and Drug Development
Historically, disease foundations provide funding for academic research toward treatment or cures. However, a different method of providing support directly to companies, called venture philanthropy, has begun to gain attention. The nonprofit Cystic Fibrosis Foundation began providing funding to a small biotech company to develop drugs for treating the disease… Read More»
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