A venerable patent law axiom-"a patentee may be its ow ...

IpVenture (2007) illustrates the importance of contracts requiring employees to assign patent rights to their employers. Should the contract be worded as an agreement to assign? or as ...

Common sense governs when assessing the patentability of inventions that combine prior art elements. So the Supreme Court holds in KSR. It affirms its prior decisions, which urged caut ...

Donald S. Chisum on Joint Infringement of Method Patent Claims: BMC Resources, Inc. v. Paymentech, L.P., Continue reading >>

In Seagate, the Federal Circuit discourages patent owners from charging willful infringement. It abolishes the "affirmative duty of due care" to avoid infringing known patent ...

Does the Supreme Court's 2007 KSR International decision substantially raise the bar for patentability? Or does it merely rein in an excessively technical requirement that shielded fro ...