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The Question Worth Pondering: Innovation Provokers or Idea Thieves? By Ralf Boscheck* — In the past five years Cisco and J.C. Penney have spent close to $350 million fending off demands from patent trolls, which are more politely known as 'patent assertion entities,' or PAEs. In February, a court in Texas ordered Apple to pay…
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By Donald Zuhn — On March 28, 2016, a dozen members of Congress sent a letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to "strongly encourage the NIH to use its [march-in] authority to…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — CRISPR (an acronym for Clustered Regularly lnterspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), which is part of a system for altering chromosomal sequences in situ in a cell in combination with a bacterially derived protein called Cas9, has been hailed as the "Breakthrough of the Year" for 2015, and rightfully so. Just as…
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Maling v. Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP By Andrew Williams — In a case that was watched by the entire patent law community with some fascination, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts concluded on December 23, 2015 "that the simultaneous representation by a law firm in the prosecution of patents for two clients…
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By Donald Zuhn — After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its ninth annual list of top patent stories. For 2015, we identified twenty stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had (or are likely to have) a significant impact on patent practitioners and…
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The authors and contributors of Patent Docs wish their readers and families a Happy Holidays.
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By Bill Reid* — Christmas is the biggest holiday in my family. We spend a lot of time putting up decorations, but the most time of all is devoted to decorating the Christmas tree. For me personally, it's a uniquely special time because I find myself reflecting on Christmases past with absent family I very…
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By Joseph Herndon — On December 1, 2015, the International Trade Commission (ITC) rendered an opinion In the Matter of Certain Vision-Based Driver Assistance System Cameras, Components Thereof, and Products Containing the Same, investigation no. 337-TA-907. The Opinion covered ten separate questions; however, only two are discussed here. Those two questions cover aspects of interpretation…
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The authors and contributors of Patent Docs wish their readers and families a Happy Thanksgiving. Publication of Patent Docs will resume on November 27th.
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Progress, and faith in progress to improve human lives, has been a cornerstone belief in American civilization (and, indeed, Western civilization generally, at least since St Augustine argued that Christ's death put an arrow on history). It was so important to the Founding Fathers that they enshrined promoting progress as…
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