Posts in Technology & Innovation
Trump nominates financial services inventor Margaret Weichert to serve as OMB’s deputy director of management
Margaret Weichert, Trump’s selection for deputy director of management at the OMB, is an inventor who has received “14 successful U.S. patents,” an indication that someone …
Allergan’s patent transaction with St. Regis Mohawks could presage more arbitrage patent transactions
News of the St. Regis patent transaction has sparked interest in others pursuing similar arbitrage arrangements that provide revenue streams to Native American tribes outside of gambling …
Patent battle over generic Inomax leaves five Mallinckrodt patents invalid as naturally occurring phenomenon
A memorandum signed by Judge Sleet shows that Mallinckrodt’s patents were invalidated under the Section 101 patentability standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012’s …
Executives for America’s tech giants refuse to come to Congress to testify on net neutrality
The Facebooks, Googles and Netflixes of the world, edge providers that provide Internet services via websites but not an Internet connection like ISPs offer, have every reason …
EPO ready for the first Unitary Patent as soon as the ratification requirements are met
One of the great aspects of the Unitary Patent is that it follows the normal EPO procedure up to grant. And indeed, the search and the examination …
How to Participate in Open Source While Maintaining IP Integrity
The key idea is to think strategically about the software, the value it can provide to the company, and whether the technology should be developed in-house. In …
Exclusive with Grant Philpott: Patenting Computer Implemented Inventions in Europe
We try to be precise and stick to CII because “software” in itself is a term which lacks precision. It can refer to a high level program, …
The Bitcoin Network, Blockchain Technology and Altcoin Futures
In 2008, as the financial markets crumbled in the largest economic crisis the world has seen since the 1930s, Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper describing his Bitcoin …
Howard Head’s innovative sporting goods revolutionize skiing and tennis for amateurs and pros alike
Among the 2017 inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame is Howard Head, the inventor of both the laminate ski as well as the oversized tennis racket. …
Finjan forms new subsidiary Finjan Blue to execute web security patent acquisition agreement with IBM
East Palo Alto, CA-based web security firm Finjan Holdings recently filed a Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which disclosed a patent …
Nintendo to appeal $10.1M jury verdict of infringement after invalidating 5 of 6 iLife patents at PTAB
A jury verdict recently entered into a patent infringement case in the Northern District of Texas found that Japanese gaming giant Nintendo infringed upon a patent asserted …
Korean court upholds $912M Qualcomm fine as tech rivals continue to make antitrust claims
On Monday, September 4th, a South Korean court denied a request made by San Diego, CA-based semiconductor developer Qualcomm Inc. to rescind a fine levied last December …
Uncertain legal status of financial transactions in marijuana industry lead to bitcoin, cryptocurrency development
Increasingly, bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies are becoming the choice for most financial transactions within the nascent marijuana industry as the sector increases in value. North American marijuana …
America innovates most when government stands behind a stable property rights regime
America innovates most when property rights are stable and government gets out of the way so risk takers can dream the impossible and then go accomplish those …
Delaware Patent suit pits top two players in U.S. electronic voting machines against each other
On Monday, August 21st, Omaha, NE-based voting machine firm Election Systems & Software filed a patent infringement suit against election product company Dominion Voting Systems of Toronto, Ontario. …
