With the business group now fighting against trial lawyers, Inc’s longtime grip on state judiciaries, the litigation lobby has turned its attention to state legislature, where it is not only blocking tort reforms but working to expand its portfolio of litigation opportunities. Among other things, state legislators are authorizing new kind of lawsuits, raising [...]
The IP law section of the American Bar Association (ABA) outlined its recommended revisions of 35 USC, section 101 in a recent letter to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).The association provided its interpretation and suggested revisions of section 101, which covers patent subject matter eligibility and has been the focus of a number of [...]
Patents are the most relevant kind of intellectual property protection for technology-driven industries, particularly high-tech startups. They grant intellectual property rights covering technical inventions and relate to compositions, processes or methods of making these, or their use for a particular purpose. More specifically, patents grant the right to prevent others from making, using, offering, storing, selling or importing the invention. In exchange for [...]
A single court in rural East Texas has become the site of one of the biggest battles in Silicon Valley. Tech giants like Intel and Apple say the Eastern District of Texas, within the federal 5th Circuit, has become a haven for frivolous patent lawsuits, with favorable rulings often handed down to litigants that [...]
Plano, TX-based security tech provider Uniloc USA recently filed a pair of patent infringement suits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (E.D. Tex.) in which Uniloc asserts a series of patents directed at conference call and voice over Internet (VoIP) technologies. The defendants, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Internet services subsidiary Google and e-commerce giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), are the latest [...]
Security and privacy concern over UAV, are risking as quickly as the expansion of the drone industry. In January 2015,, a drunk employee from US government intelligence agency crashed a drone on White House lawn, while in April of same year, a Japanese man was arrested for landing a drone carrying small amount of [...]
