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The fight over the steeply priced cancer drug XTANDI(enzalutamide), used in prostate cancer has taken interesting turn, with a clutch of civil society, organisations including Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment and Health Global Access Project, urging University of Califirnia to withdraw its case and cease efforts to obtain patent in India. The drug was [...]
As the American Invent Act switched from the "first to Invent" to "first to file" patent system. This means that the right to patent inventions goes first to the first person to file patent application as opposed to the first to create the product. What are Provisional Patent Application? A provisional patent application is [...]
Qualcomm is taking its legal battle with Apple to the companies who actually build the iPhones and iPads. On Wednesday, the mobile chip giant said it's suing four Taiwan-based Apple contract manufacturers -- Foxconn, Compal, Wistron and Pegatron -- for not paying royalties to Qualcomm for its patents on smartphone technology like cellular modems. [...]
How New Musician can protect their music's Intellectual Property? Kim Umanoff, General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of Blue Elan Records, LLC, sat down with IPWatchdog to discuss how musicians and bands who are just starting out can protect the IP of their music. Umanoff is the former managing associate at Liner LLP and [...]
There are numerous problems with the United States patent system, extraordinary good could come from undoing several pivotal decisions. If Congress wants to resurrect the U.S. patent system these three decisions would be overturned. As long as these decisions remain in force the U.S. patent system will continue to suffer. If and when these [...]
Those who want "stronger" patents (i.e. patents that are easier to get and/or harder to invalidate) often use this rationale to justify changing patent laws to make patents more enforceable. For example, a former Judge on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently suggested that "America is in danger because we have [...]
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 [...]
The legal team of Hindustan Unilever last month made a presentation on issues related to intellectual property rights to a rather unusual audience 14-year-old students from St Xaviers School in Bhandup, a central suburb of Mumbai. The country's largest consumer products company is keen to involve its future consumers in its fight against counterfeit [...]
Supreme court agreed to hear about the another case of the America Invents Act: SAS institute's vs. Lee. The inter partes review focuses on whether the AIA permits USPTO to partially institute IPR proceedings as it has been always doing. SAS argues instead that the statute requires a full up/down vote on a petition [...]
Trade secrets are important to cybersecurity because many data breaches involve trade secret theft. The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) amended the Espionage Act of 1996 to provide a federal private right of action for trade secret misappropriation. Some commentators opposed the DTSA in part because it seems redundant in light of [...]
