IP business time frames are now divided into Before Nortel and After Nortel
Joff Wild attended the Nortel session at the annual LES USA and Canada meeting and walked away with two distinct impressions: Without early and detailed input of IP management and valuation advisors, the Nortel auction probably would never have occurred. Education about the value of IP was necessary on both the buy and sell sides [...]
PWC releases report on 2011 patent litigation, contrasts reasonable royalty rates with lost profits
A new PWC study shows reasonable royalties are the most frequent kind of damages awards in patent cases and comprise a greater share with each passing year, while seeking recovery of lost profits can be costly and complex. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on [...]
Google’s own email and court filing hints at willful infringement of Oracle patents
IPBlog has reported on the infamous, incriminating Google email. Now a US judge has allowed Oracle to use the internal Google email in its Java patent infringement lawsuit against Android. The email includes text from a Google engineer suggesting that the company had no choice but to negotiate a license for using Java in Android. [...]
New patent law removes the teeth behind disclosure of “best mode”
The America Invents Act changes the bargain created in the nineteenth century when Congress granted inventors a limited monopoly on their invention in exchange for revealing to the world how it works in its “best mode.” According to Jake Holdreth and Joseph Hosteny, writing in Corporate Counsel, the compromise presented in AIA creates “confusion and [...]
Inventors advised to think twice before patenting
Michael Hess’s advice to individual inventors suffices as a checklist for organizations considering keeping an invention under wraps under trade secrets protection vs. filing for a patent. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
Will Amazon Buy Palm IP?
Amazon launched their new tablet, the Fire, and was immediately sued for patent infringement by Smartphone Technologies, a subsidiary of Acacia, which has rights to several Palm patents. Analysts believe in order for Amazon to join the mobile wars, they have to join the patent wars, too. So the speculation is, to protect Fire, will [...]
Advice offered to pharma and biotech on reducing their in-licensing royalty costs
Typically a biotech or pharmaceutical company will need to license another’s inventions in order to manufacture their own products. Lori M. Waldron of Sills, Cummins & Gross PC, writing in National Law Review, offered some tips on how to minimize these costs. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe [...]
Myriad likely to be appealed by plaintiffs
In a not-unexpected move, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation said last week they will beat the December deadline and petition the Supreme Court to overturn a CAFC decision and rule that Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics cannot hold patents on human genes. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via [...]
Proposed legislation would create a federal civil cause of action for trade secrets misappropriation
A pair of amendments to the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2011were proposed early this month by Senators Chris Coons (D-NJ) and Herb Kohl (D-WI). The bill would allow US businesses allegedly wronged by trade-secret theft to sue in federal court by streamlining existing state laws into a uniform national statute and would [...]
A patent cliff doesn’t just affect pharma and biotech, tech transfer must plan for it as well
The University of Minnesota’s will see a huge reduction in royalty revenue as patents on their blockbuster HIV drug expire. Ziagen, which prevents the HIV virus from reproducing, has made the University and inventor Robert Vince a combined $524 million since 1999. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe [...]
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