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Apple patented a pizza box, for pizzas
Apple’s brand-new campus is starting to open up to employees, and Wired got to step inside for an early look at the incredibly elaborate building. The article highlights a bunch of thoughtful and often [...]
America’s absurd compulsory licensing patent system: Confused and Frustrated
Many Conference attendees have been on opposite sides over the years, but the experts gathered that day were in concerted agreement that the patent landscape has been carpet-bombed with confusion caused by the Courts, [...]
Steven Cherny Joins Quinn Emanuel’s New York Office
Quinn Emanuel is a 700+ lawyer business litigation firm—the largest in the world devoted solely to business litigation and arbitration with 21 global office locations. Firm lawyers have tried over 2,500 cases, winning 88% [...]
FOIA Requests made of USPTO seeking information on rules of PTAB judges
On Thursday, May 11, 2017, I submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request (see bottom) to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). My FOIA request seeks a copy of any and [...]
Apple-preferred AAC now a ‘de facto standard’
More advanced codecs like AAC are beginning to supplant MP3, Fraunhofer director Bernhard Grill told NPR. Grill in fact claimed that AAC has become the "de facto standard for music download and videos on [...]
Even when you at IPR you lose!!
In a rare IPR affirming patentability, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) found claims of US Patent No. 6,945,013 to be patentable that were directed to a “method for automatically aseptically bottling [...]