Three years after the Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank case, software patenting had turned virulent. This decision has, in particular, wreaked havoc in the business method art units, where the statistical probability of securing a patent had been low (compared to other art units) even before the Supreme Court Alice decision. Afterwards, it was [...]
Lord Jonathan Sumption said, "But there have been two occasions in my professional life when I have been shaken in my view that it is all just law. One was my only foray, as Counsel, into patent litigation. I will not trouble you with this unhappy story. It persuaded me that chemical patents at [...]
INTA is the global association of trademark owners and professionals dedicated to supporting trademarks and related intellectual property. The Association’s member organizations represent 30,000 trademark professionals and include brand owners from major corporations as well as both small and medium-sized enterprises, law firms and non-profits. There are also government agency members as well as [...]
According to recent research, these worries are becoming reality as inventions that qualify for patent protection in Europe and Asia face the prospect of 101 rejections in the US. In March, a paper by Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan from George Mason law school analysed a dataset of 1,400 patent applications, finding marked differences [...]
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi has announced it will purchase 1,500 of Microsoft's patents, many of those related to mobile software, as it marks the next step in its pursuit of Western expansion. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. While the Android maker dominates its home market with an intimidating 26% share of the fast-growing [...]
Snapchat’s patent, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, talks about seamlessly integrating Augmented Reality (AR) in real world scenarios. The technology uses GPS or similar system to determine a user’s location. After they’ve clicked a picture of a real world scenario (park for example), the technology then matches these images against its [...]
