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Antitrust and Patents: A Conversation with Makan Delrahim
Last week, as a part of the Virtual Patent Masters™ Program hosted by IPWatchdog, I had the opportunity to interview Makan Delrahim, who is Assistant Attorney General …
Everything Depends on Coronavirus R&D Partnerships—Don’t Let the Critics Wreck Them
The world is teetering on the brink of a public health and economic catastrophe, depending on emergency partnerships between our public and private sectors to develop a …
Protecting Contracts in the Age of COVID-19: ‘Material Adverse Change’ Clauses
As outside general counsel to over 150 emerging growth companies in recent years, as well as to their venture capital and growth equity investors, and as someone who …
Mad Dash to Coronavirus Vaccine May Face Legal Hurdles
Almost a third of the recently signed $8.3 billion bill to fund the United States response to the coronavirus outbreak is devoted directly to vaccine research and development. …
Don’t Undermine the Policies Most Likely to Solve the Coronavirus Crisis
To say that the world's been deeply shaken by the coronavirus (and the disease it causes, known as COVID-19) is no exaggeration. Our stock market has plunged, …
Anticompetitive or Hyper-Competitive? An Analysis of the FTC v. Qualcomm Oral Argument
On February 13, the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in the FTC v. Qualcomm case. Counsel for Qualcomm and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) argued primarily about whether …
Let the Music Play: The Performance Rights License Marketplace Thrives Only with Vigilant Antitrust Enforcement
On January 26, CBS broadcast the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, which celebrated America’s finest recording artists and songwriters. Drawing a global audience with performances by super stars …
Innovators Brace for Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments in FTC v. Qualcomm
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is set to hear oral arguments tomorrow in the closely-watched case of FTC v. Qualcomm, which will …
Clearing Up Confusion on SEPs: A Line-by-Line Response to a Problematic Essay
I recently became frustrated after reading an essay in the AIPLA newsletter by an attorney with Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP on the topic of the new USPTO-DOJ-NIST …
IBM, Toyota Join LOT Network, Underscoring Rapid Growth for the Patent Risk Management Consortium
Information technology giant IBM recently announced that it had agreed to join the LOT Network, a nonprofit patent risk management consortium designed to immunize its members from …
Federal Circuit’s Dodocase Vr Decision Provides a Roadmap for Limiting AIA Proceedings
If you are a patent owner asserting and licensing your patent, chances are you want to avoid an America Invents Act (AIA) proceeding, whether that proceeding is …
Links to China Prompt Purge at Moffitt Cancer Center
Underscoring the seriousness of the threat posed by the Chinese government's campaign to obtain results of U.S. publicly funded research, the Board of Directors at the …
The Top Five European IP Developments of 2019—and Five to Watch for 2020
As the year winds down, IPWatchdog is running a series of articles on the top stories of 2019 and what’s ahead for the year to come. In …
Amateurism for Assets: NCAA to Allow Student Athletes to ‘Benefit’ from Personal Intellectual Property
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recently took a step toward letting student athletes "benefit" from use of their name, image, and likeness. The move comes after …
Other Barks & Bites, Friday, December 6: Lawmakers Concerned with Copyright Restatement, USPTO Pushed to Keep SEP Injunction Policy, Qualcomm Pushes Back on Koh at Ninth Circuit
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments over copyright status of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated; the Federal Circuit …
