Posts Tagged: amicus briefs
A Patents as Property Rights History Lesson
Several of the briefs address the absurdity currently being advanced, claiming patents are so-called “public rights.” This novel notion — more in line with Karl Marx than John …
Request for Amicus Support at Federal Circuit in Evolutionary Intelligence v. Sprint Nextel Corp.
Since the Supreme Court’s Alice decision, district courts and the Federal Circuit have been ruling on what they perceive as the “abstractness” of patents—not with …
A Slanted View of Scandalous and Disparaging Trademarks
The Supreme Court has scheduled oral argument in Lee v. Tam for January 18... The genesis of the case is a Portland, Oregon all-Asian-American band called The Slants, …
Inventors, Startups and Investors Amicus Challenges Constitutionality of IPR
Amici agree with Petitioner that this procedure was beyond Congress’s power to impose, and its underpinning rationale—that patents are a matter of administrative largesse, rather …
