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Report: Patent pools may stifle competition
Patent pools, designed to spur innovation and reduce the cost of litigation, may actually be having anticompetitive effects according to a report released by the former competition policy director for the Federal Trade Commission.
Court struggles with question of human gene patentability
Drawing a legal line to determine when human genetic material ceases to be a creation of nature and instead becomes a patentable product is not easy — even for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Patent law overhaul starting to show its effects
Portions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011, or the “AIA,” took effect earlier this month. It’s been called the most significant overhaul of U.S. patent law in decades.
DuPont to appeal record-setting $1 billion verdict for Monsanto
DuPont officials plan to appeal a federal jury’s record-setting $1-billion verdict that found the company willfully infringed a patent held by Monsanto.
Intellectual Property – patents — counterclaims
10-844 Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd., v. Novo Nordisk, A/S
Intellectual Property — patents
10-1150 Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
09-1159 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
Intellectual Property Patents; federal contractors The Bayh-Dole Act does not automatically vest title to federally funded inventions in federal contractors or authorize contractors to unilaterally take title to such inventions. Section 202(a), which states that contractors may “elect to retain title,” confirms that the Act does not vest title. Stanford reaches the opposite conclusion,[...]
10-6 Global-Tech Appliances, Inc., v. SEB S.A.
Intellectual Property Patents; induced infringement Induced infringement under 35 U.S.C. 271(b) requires knowledge that the induced acts constitute patent infringement. Induced infringement was not considered a separate theory of indirect liability in the pre-1952 case law, but was treated as evidence of “contributory infringement,” i.e., the aiding and abetting of direct infringement by anoth[...]
Patent Office pilot programs slowly ease backlog (UPDATE)
Over the past two years, patent attorneys have seen marked differences in the way patent applications are handled, and how a backlog of 700,000-plus filed patent applications are being tackled, by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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