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In response to recent decisions from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the PTO has now issued Proposed. -
In a highly unusual action, the PTO issued a Notice to Examiners on March 29, 1994 (1161 O.G. 314, No. 3, April 19. -
Damages awards in U.S. patent infringement cases have been recognized as reaching magnitudes rarely seen in other . -
The Supreme Court of the United States, in the eagerly awaited decision in Warner-Jenkinson Co., Inc. v. Hilton Da. -
So you want to buy a high-tech company. You are not alone. Not a day goes by without the announcement of another blockbuster M&A deal in the technology sector. With exuberant valuations provided by stock markets for high-tech stocks, these private currencies are being used to acquire product lines-or sometimes just nascent R&D-at a dizzying pace. Welcome to the hyper-kinetic world of high-tech mergers and acquisitions. -
At one time, patents could not easily be obtained for software-related inventions. Clever practitioners quickly learned to draft the claims so as not to claim protection for a computer program as such. After a few years of this game, and some important court decisions, the objections to the registration of software-related patents in the U.S. eventually disappeared. -
Although companies race to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to build their patent portfolios, technically, a company is not granted a patent. In the United States, only the inventor or inventors may apply for a patent for their invention. -
A patent applicant has a duty to prosecute an application before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office with candor, go. -
Byron W. Cooper is one of the co-practice group leaders of the Litigation Practice Group at Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP. He counsels clients regarding litigation, licensing, patent prosecution, intellectual property portfolios and has assisted in high-profile patent litigation cases nationwide defending and prosecuting claims of infringement and the validity of patents. Mr. Cooper earned his J.D. from University of California at Los Angeles (1993); M.S. from University of Southern California (1988) and his B.S. from United States Military Academy at West Point (1986). -
Interpreting the scope of patent claims can be like trying to parse a novel jointly written by Stephen Hawking and James Joyce. The unenviable task of legally interpreting the scope of patent claims was taken from juries and given exclusively to judges in 1995 in the Markma. But shifting the responsibility did little to make patent litigation a less toxic odyssey of expense and uncertainty. Now the Federal Circuit, the nation's highest patent court, has before it the Philips v. AWH Corporation case, which addresses the fundamental guidelines for the claim construction task.