The case concerns the standard for claim construction in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. Under current law, the United States Patent Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) construes claims during IPR proceedings according to their broadest reasonable interpretation, rather than their plain and ordinary meaning as is done in civil litigation. The granted [...]
In a fascinating case before the Karnataka High Court: Inphase Power Technologies v. ABB India Justice P.S. Dinesh Kumar passed an order confirming the misappropriation of confidential information, patent infringement, and hold your breath – trademark infringement as well! Not to be left out, there were arguments advanced of alleged copyright infringement too, which [...]
Neither EMI nor MP3tunes may exist anymore, but the EMI v MP3tunes legal battle continues, and in doing so puts the spotlight on the obligations of technology companies which benefit from the so called safe harbours contained within American copyright law. As you may have noticed, safe harbours have been something of a talking [...]
Free public Wi-Fi is not a rarity, especially among shops that try to draw the attention of potential customers to their goods and services. However, what happens when a user commits a copyright infringement while using that Wi-Fi network? Would the person who runs the shop be held liable for the crime? This is [...]
Apple’s Patent number 9,454,225 On 4 October 2016 for a human machine interface, an interfaces that combine multiple user interaction modalities. It is a method that will receive a three-dimensional (3D) map of at least a part of a body of a user. The evolution is from the keypad, pen touch, and now with [...]
On July 2016 apple won a patent for Hand Gestures to Control Game Play on iOS Devices, the projector that interprets hand gestures to control a game play on iphone and now on October 4, 2016 Apple again granted with a patent advanced 3D Mapped Gesture Interface. The invention uses user interfaces that are [...]
