Federal Circuit Denies Mandamus in Due Process Violations Case Against Big...
The CAFC on Friday, February 11, denied a petition for writ of mandamus filed by B.E. Technology in November of last year asking the court to intervene to “prevent an unconstitutional deprivation of...
View ArticleWebinar: Holding the USPTO Accountable in District Court – Why the...
Section 145 of the Patent Act authorizes patent applicants to bring suit against the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in district court following a loss at the Patent Trial and Appeal...
View ArticleAmici Cite Relevance of GAO Report, Empirical Data, to Back New Vision’s...
Inventor organization US Inventor (USI) and Ron Katznelson—the author of a widely cited study detailing the link between Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) judges’ decisions and their...
View ArticleIPWatchdog 2010: ABA Blawg Tops + Over 2 Million Visits
I am pleased to announce that IPWatchdog.com was selected by the readers of the ABA Journal as their favorite IP Law blog for 2010 ABA. I am also pleased to announce that for 2010 we had over 2,000,000...
View ArticleAmici Support i4i at Supreme Court in Microsoft Patent Case
What becomes clear in reading these briefs (and the excerpts below) is that despite what you might have heard to the contrary the Supreme Court has already previously addressed this issue and has done...
View ArticleThe America Invents Act’s Repeal of Secret Commercial Use Bar is...
The effort to shoehorn foreign patent priority concepts and torture a well-developed 200 year-old American patent system that has a proven record as the best in the world into foreign structures that...
View ArticleA Critique of Mark Lemley’s “The Myth of the Sole Inventor”
For example, regarding Thomas Edison, Lemley’s primary case illustrating the so-called “myth of the sole inventor,” he alleges that “Sawyer and Man invented and patented the incandescent light bulb”...
View ArticleLemley Responds: Defending the Myth of the Sole Inventor
If you actually read my article you will find that I simply don’t say the things they claim I say. The basic refrain of the Howells-Katznelson paper is that (1) I think Edison and the Wright brothers...
View ArticleRebuttal Finale: A Response to Lemley’s Myth of the Sole Inventor
Lemley’s response introduces the new term “sequential improvement.” This suggests to us that he has now abandoned many of his claims of “simultaneous invention.” The word ‘sequential’ does not occur a...
View ArticleA Special Thank You to Our Guest Contributors!
Over the years IPWatchdog.com has continued to try and add additional perspectives from a wide variety of guest contributors, ranging from well respected practicing attorneys and agents to high profile...
View ArticleIndustry Insiders Make Patent Wishes for 2012
It is that time of the year where we all start to look ahead to the new year, perhaps making some New Year resolutions that are sure to last for at least a few days. Resurrecting something done two...
View ArticleHere they go again – this time with the Patent SHIELD Act
Indeed, the bill’s co-sponsor acknowledges and states “[t]his bill combats the problem of patent trolls by moving to a ‘loser pays’ system for software and hardware patent litigation.” However, the...
View ArticleThe America Invents Act at Work – The Major Cause for the Recent Rise in...
It is ironic and highly likely that the AIA – the legislation touted by its proponents as the instrument to reduce the number of costly patent lawsuits – is in fact the major cause for their increase...
View ArticleWill Congress Succumb to the Sirens’ Song and Take-Over the Judiciary’s Case...
A troubling fundamental aspect of the proposed mandatory stay is that it would chip away at the quid pro quo of the patent bargain. To ensure the Constitutionally-protected exclusive right, patent...
View ArticleHave We Gone Too Far to Eradicate Weak Patents?
Asking whether the industry has gone too far to eradicate weak patents misses the point entirely, and to some extent will allow those who want the patent system to continue its march off the cliff to...
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