Amicus Brief Advocating Against Tribal Sovereign Immunity Filed in PTAB Proceedings

IPWatchdog   In response to a hotly contested series of patent litigations and PTAB proceedings involving Restatis®,  the patent owner Allergan, Inc. (“Allergan”) made a eleventh hour assignment of its patents (with an accompanying license back) to the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe (“the Tribe”).  As a result of this transaction, the Tribe asserted Tribal Sovereign […]

The Bitcoin Network, Blockchain Technology and Altcoin Futures

IPWATCHDOG In 2008, as the financial markets crumbled in the largest economic crisis the world has seen since the 1930s, Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper describing his Bitcoinnetwork and the blockchain technology that was used to enable it.  (By common convention, Bitcoin with a capital “B” typically refers to the Bitcoin network as a whole, whereas bitcoin […]