Barrel O' Patents

"While we would have preferred to keep this matter out of the courts, our intellectual property portfolio forms the foundation for Single Touch, and we believe it is our duty as stewards of the Company to protect all of our stakeholders, including clients and shareholders, when our IP rights have been violated," said Anthony Macaluso, Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer.

Among inventors, universities, companies and patent attorneys, there has been significant discussion regarding the impact of the recently passed America Invents Act and the various changes to existing...

What the Eolas patents make clear is that the system isn’t working. We’ve been saying it for years, yet both Congress and the courts have failed to fix the problem. In the now infamous Bilski case, the Supreme Court gave the green light to business method patents, and, consequently, to software patents. But the patent system, which is largely a one-size-fits-all program, simply stops making sense when we start to talk about software.

MacroSolve's latest patent infringement suits filed against Yelp, Inc., the operator of yelp.com, one of the largest social user review and local search web sites, and Newegg Inc., the second-largest online-only retailer in the U.S.

. . .when an applicant wants to disclaim subject matter that was originally disclosed as part of the invention, the fact that the disclaimed subject matter is disclosed is not important. Instead, the usual added-subject matter test -- is it unambiguously disclosed? -- is applied to the subject matter of the amended claim.

'No longer can you invent first, be diligent, go to commercialization and then rely on that first date of invention' to win a patent battle with someone who files earlier, attorney John Kastelic says.

Gene-sequencing breakthroughs, spawning a fast-growing, multibillion-dollar market for drugs and medical tests, are also creating thorny questions over how to regulate commercial use of the human genetic code.

What *not* to do to extend patent coverage: Italian Competition Authority spanks Pfizer for efforts to extend patent protection sayng Pfizer had no intention of launching a new drug, but only of excluding generics from the Italian market.

NAI alleges that DNP supplies infringing beta-alanine to nutritional supplement contract manufacturers, formulators and distributors in the United States. DNP imports its beta-alanine into the United States from China.

Submitted as a patent application in April of 2010, the company first discussed a related invention at the 2010 International Electron Devices Meeting. Intel disclosed that it had developed P-channel transistors made from germanium, which the...

Determining who is the prevailing party is not a calculation of which side won more of its claims than the other. Rather, the Court must look at the "relation of the litigation result to the overall objective of the litigation."