6/17/2008 12:00:02 PM EST Posted by Lawrence M. Sung, Ph.D.Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP; Professor & Intellectual Property Law Program Director, University of Maryland School of Law
The ability to enforce a U.S. patent is not unbounded. Under 35 U.S.C. § 271, "whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within t ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/2/2008 2:15:47 PM EST Posted by Lawrence M. Sung, Ph.D.Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP; Professor & Intellectual Property Law Program Director, University of Maryland School of Law
A biotechnology patent is often viewed as the poster child for a technically complex patent litigation. The su ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/2/2008 2:11:41 PM EST Posted by Lawrence M. Sung, Ph.D.Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP; Professor & Intellectual Property Law Program Director, University of Maryland School of Law
A consequence of business competition in the age of commercial exclusivity is the need to telegraph the existence of one's intellectual property rights. Perhaps more attention has been ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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1/28/2008 4:49:14 PM EST Posted by Mary LaFranceProfessor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas
In order to infringe a design patent, an accused design must be substantially similar to the patented design, as seen through the eyes of the hypothetical "ordinary observer." ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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1/28/2008 4:48:30 PM EST Posted by Mary LaFranceProfessor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas
The Supreme Court's decision in eBay v. MercExchange changed the playing field for patentees seeking permanent injunctions against infringers, r ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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4/1/2008 5:29:04 PM EST Posted by Lawrence M. Sung, Ph.D.Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP; Professor & Intellectual Property Law Program Director, University of Maryland School of Law
The adequacy of a patentee plaintiff’s pre-infringement suit investigation follows one path in the normal case, but qu ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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1/28/2008 4:48:30 PM EST
Christopher A. Harkins discusses the recent Federal Circuit of Morrow v. Microsoft , which held that a trust established to enfor ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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1/28/2008 4:48:30 PM EST Posted by Eric E BensenAssociate, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP
In International Gamco , the Federal Circuit ruled that an exclusive licensee of a patent whose license was limited to a field of use could not sue in its own name for t ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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3/7/2008 12:45:44 PM EST Posted by Mary LaFranceProfessor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas
When software object code supplied from the United States is copied overseas, and only the copies are installed in computers so as to produce a programmed computer that ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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