By Andrew Maloney | June 27, 2022
The firm, adding 14 new lawyers, will now be closer to more than 60 clients with significant operations in the Pacific Northwest, including Microsoft, Amazon and Expedia.
By Scott Graham | June 22, 2022
The new PTO director has dialed back the agency's controversial Fintiv rule, freeing up the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to hear more patent validity challenges. The Senate still sounds nowhere near a consensus for enshrining PTAB reforms into law, as IP chiefs for tech companies—including Qualcomm—voice support for certain legislative proposals.
By Scott Graham | June 15, 2022
An Oakland federal jury also awarded $24 million against Hewlett Packard Enterprise for intentionally interfering with Oracle's contractual relationships. Oracle had been seeking $128 million in compensatory damages plus punitive damages on the intentional interference claims.
By Jessica Seah | June 9, 2022
Benjamin Bai, formerly head of the intellectual property practice at Allen & Overy and Jones Day, left private practice to join digital payments juggernaut Ant Group in 2016. But his latest move marks yet another pivot, this time to the risky world of digital assets.
By Scott Graham | June 8, 2022
Once a "trademark gopher" for his IP lawyer father, Kirkpatrick built his own practice and following while representing some of the world's largest brands.
By Scott Graham | June 6, 2022
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board will let the tech giant act as an "understudy" to a small LLC's challenge to a patent worth $1.5 billion.
By Scott Graham | June 6, 2022
Three Federal Circuit judges suggest that the language of the Patent Act limits inventors to human beings. Judge Richard Taranto adds that it's "not self-evident" that extending inventorship to machines would be good policy, either.
By Scott Graham | May 27, 2022
Eolas v. Amazon.com is descended from one of the most famous patent trials in Internet history. Judge Jon Tigar ruled that Eolas Technologies left too much of the "how" out of its distributed computing claims.
By Scott Graham | May 25, 2022
The solicitor general is recommending that the Supreme Court grant cert in "American Axle," a case that could clarify—or rewrite—the most controversial area of patent law.
By Scott Graham | May 25, 2022
Judge James Selna ruled that PureCircle's patented methods of producing commercial grade Stevia are ineligible for patenting or fail on written description. That made winners of Sweegen and Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox.
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