By Kenneth Weatherwax | May 22, 2019
Years of confusion over what is “eligible” for patenting have weakened the U.S. patent system.
By John McNelis | May 22, 2019
Startup companies are well positioned to address some of the problems in the industry but should be careful to avoid the following potholes.
By Scott Graham | May 22, 2019
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California has handed a sweeping win to the FTC in its antitrust case against Qualcomm, calling out the wireless giant's lawyer-executives as the "architects, implementers, and enforcers" of anti-competitive practices.
By Scott Graham | May 16, 2019
Durie Tangri's Mark Lemley, an attorney for a would-be class of consumers and insurers, says a 2015 ruling on a Spider-Man toy established limits on royalties that drug companies are ignoring.
By Susan Yorke | May 15, 2019
For the second time in five years, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has breathed new life into Malibu Textile's claims that fast-fashion retailer H&M, among others, copied its lace designs.
By Scott Graham | May 10, 2019
Representing telematics supplier Continental Automotive, the firm has filed a Northern District of California suit accusing patent pool Avanci and other SEP holders of colluding to drive up the price of wireless connectivity for autos.
By Lewis R. Clayton and Eric Alan Stone | May 7, 2019
A series of cases from courts within the Ninth Circuit have grappled with the issue of when a trademark owner's right to enforce its mark against misleading suggestions of origin “must give way to expressive speech protected by the First Amendment."
By Scott Graham | May 6, 2019
Bankrupt defendant XTAL won't pay out much but has agreed to assign its IP assets to ASML and to stay out of its field of business for three years.
By Scott Graham | May 3, 2019
A federal judge in San Francisco calls it "a close call," but says Williams-Sonoma has plausibly stated a claim that Amazon is implying a connection "that does not actually exist."
By Xiumei Dong | May 3, 2019
Squire Patton Boggs has hired former Morrison & Foerster IP partners and longtime colleagues David Manspeizer and Greg Chopskie in New York and San Francisco.
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