AIA’s Impact on Multidefendant Patent Litigation: Part 1
Click here to read the article. – October 19, 2012, IPLaw360, Public Policy and Technology Law360, New York
In the Press: Managing Intellectual Property Turns To Partner Charles R. Macedo For Expertise
Managing Intellectual Property turns to partner Charles R. Macedo for expertise on how the Federal Circuit may handle patent eligibility issues of computer implemented inventions in CLS v. Alice rehearing: How judicial changes will shape the CLS v. Alice Rehearing, 19 Oct 2012, Alli Pryah Read the article here. – Managing Intellectual Property, 19 Oct […]
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Federal Circuit Clarifies That USPTO Can Only Consider Prior Art Found to Raise a Substantial New Question of Patentability in Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings
Although under the America Invents Act, as of September 16, 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) ceased accepting new petitions for inter partes reexaminations, there are still many that are pending. In Belkin International, Inc. v. Kappos, No. 2012-1090 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 2, 2012), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit […]
Learning by example: The limited grace period for prior disclosures under the AIA
Click here to read the article. – Technology Transfer Tactics, Vol. 6, No. 6 June 2012
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Ninth Circuit Prevents Enforcement of German Injunction of Patents Under FRAND Licensing Obligation
On September 28, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion touching on an issue that has engendered increasing debate in recent years — the availability of injunctions for patents committed to a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) license. FRAND license requirements have become common place with standard setting organizations […]
IN the Press: Technology Transfer Tactics turns to Partner Charles R. Macedo, Esq., for analysis on late payments of maintenance fees by TTOs
Technology Transfer Tactics turns to Partner Charles R. Macedo, Esq., for analysis on late payments of maintenance fees by TTOs: As Charles R. Macedo, Esq., an attorney with New York’s Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, puts it: “it’s a low-cost mistake, so it doesn’t become a focus of cost savings for TTOs.” In addition, he […]
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Federal Circuit Orders En Banc Review of Alice Corp. Case Regarding Patent Eligibility
As discussed in reported, in Alice, the patent claims at issue related to a computerized trading platform for exchanging obligations in which a trusted third party settled obligations between a first and second party so as to eliminate “settlement risk” (i.e., the risk that only one party’s obligation will be paid). This past summer, a […]
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On June 13, the nonprofit corporation that runs the Internet made public a list of over 1,900 new generic top-level domain ("gTLD") names that may be approved for actual use early in 2013. The list can be found at ICANN’s web site at: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en. These include company specific domains (for example, .amazon, .macys, and .nike); […]
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Induced Infringement of Method Claims Can Be Found Even When No Single Party Performs All of the Claimed Steps
(September 7, 2012). On Friday, August 31, 2012, the Federal Circuit issued its much anticipated en banc decision in Akamai Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., and McKesson Technologies, Inc. v. Epic Systems Corp., No. 2009-1372, -1380, -1416, -1417, 2010-1291, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 18532 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 31, 2012)(collectively “Akamai”). The Akamai […]
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Louboutin v. YSL: Second Circuit Allows Single Color as a Fashion Trademark
The eagerly awaited decision in the Christian Louboutin v. Yves Saint Laurent case was issued by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on September 5, 2012 (Christian Louboutin S.A. v. Yves Saint Laurent Am., Inc., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 18663 (2d Cir. Sept. 5, 2012) ). The appellate court overturned the district court’s ruling that […]