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PTAB rejects inherently obvious finding
What’s obvious to one person isn’t always obvious to another, and the same is true when it comes to patents. The U.S. Court of Appeals
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What’s obvious to one person isn’t always obvious to another, and the same is true when it comes to patents. The U.S. Court of Appeals
Trademark right survives licensor’s bankruptcy It’s never good news for a business when a company that the business has contracted with files for bankruptcy. But,
What makes website operators directly liable for copyright infringement? As many copyright holders have learned the hard way, the Internet opened a whole new frontier
The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the court that hears all patent-related appeals, continues to wield the so-called Alice test to knock down patents for abstract
When a party challenging a patent’s validity alleges that multiple prior references made the invention obvious, it may need to show that someone would have
In IP dispute over ladder technology, Gorilla wins over Little Giant The US District Court, District of Minnesota, recently awarded Tricam Industries, Inc. summary judgment
Patterson Thuente IP is pleased to present the August/September issue of Ideas on Intellectual Property Law. We encourage you to read through it for ideas
Succeeding in today’s global economy requires more than business and legal acumen. It also requires the ability to communicate across cultures – to understand the
The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously defeated an attempt to limit the on-sale bar in cases where an invention was sold under a confidentiality agreement.
Resale of digital music violates Copyright Act The introduction of digital works has raised a variety of questions about how the Copyright Act applies in
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