Recent report states, specialist professional service consulting house Beaton research +consulting reveals results of survey. The report is going to make uncomfortable reading for executives and practitioners. Side by side it will bring comfort to partners and practitioners at privately held firms, many of whom believes that their independence present an opportunity to differentiate [...]
According to Wikipedia, Lady Justice has been depicted with a blindfold since at least the 16th century, with the blindfold representing impartiality. When impartiality of the system, or the judges who are charged with administering the system, is questioned, it is a very big deal. That is why the Code of Conduct applicable to [...]
Blockchain is the buzzword among new industries looking to leverage a technology which has recently been labelled by the Harvard Business Review as a ‘foundational technology’, with ‘the potential to create new foundations for our economic and social systems.’ A blockchain is a form of distributed ledger technology, best known for being the foundation [...]
The Federal Circuit’s panel decision in Achates Reference Publ’g, Inc. v. Apple Inc. held that PTAB decisions to institute IPR are unreviewable even where the § 315(b) time bar may have been violated. The en banc question here is whether to overrule Achates. The USPTO’s interest in the case was clear from the large [...]
The Federal Circuit announced with a per curiam order on January 4, 2017, that the full Court sitting en banc would decided whether judicial review is available for a patent owner to challenge the PTO’s determination that a petitioner has satisfactorily met the timeliness requirement for filing an inter partes review petition under 35 [...]
Sam Zellner, AT&T’s point man for patent portfolio development and monetization, was caught in a bind. With 5,000 issued and pending wireless patents under his charge, Zellner’s job was first of all to make sure that AT&T’s wireless portfolio — rated No. 2 in patent quality in the telecom sector by the Patent Board [...]
