Patent / Trademark Law News

Anyone with an iPhone loves how easy it is to use one. Zooming into their pictures by using their fingers, or tapping the screen twice to zoom in on a picture or page.

Amid great fanfare the European Patent Office has recently released its annual report , proclaiming another record year for the office: an all-time high in the number of filings and a 2.8% increase on the 2012 figures.

Looks like the Worlds Inc v. Activision case has been dismissed, at least for now.

On March 8th, The Economist published an article deriding both so-called "patent trolls" and "software patents" as being impediments to innovation in the United States.

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Thursday that would protect funding at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, since Congress has diverted more than $1.1 billion from the office's user fees for other purposes in the past 20 years.

The standard justification for patents is that they are necessary to allow inventors to recoup R & D costs in the presence of low-cost copying.

Texas A&M University School of Law seeks applicants for one or more Visiting Professors for one or two semesters in the 2014-15 academic year.

During the workday Bennett , founder and managing partner of Global Patent Group, a life sciences-focused patent law firm, also can be found working at a "stand-up" desk whose surface is several feet off the ground.

On April 4th and 5th, the University of San Diego School of Law will host PatCon 4 , the largest annual conference for patent law scholars.

DuPont is claiming victory in a lawsuit over a patent on an enzyme to help produce ethanol.

Judge's Choice: The judging panel selected Matt Zinn for this special recognition because he fused his business strategy with business results in a remarkable way.

March 14, 2014 - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., author of the "Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013," said the committee will begin consideration of the legislation March 27. "America's patent system is the envy of the world and an engine for job creation," Leahy said in a statement Thursday.

Frances Arnold, whose process for accelerating the evolution of enzymes that has contributed to significant advancements in science, medicine, chemicals, and energy, has been inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for 2014.

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To mitigate the threat of "Apple picking" - a term law enforcement officials sometimes use to refer to cell phone theft -- Apple's next iPhone may come with "attack detection mode."

Spansion is fully aware that those two orders are for procedure only, i.e. one for the transfer of case to for the convenience of the parties and the witnesses, and a second order requiring Macronix to amend a portion of its complaint with additional details.

Apple has patented some enhanced pedometer tech ahead of a potential Apple iWatch launch.

As students, many of us found it troublesome when classmates copied each other's answers to get ahead on homework, quizzes and exams.

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application last week from mobile device maker Samsung for a new way to summon a "mobile terminal" out of lock mode: by dragging your finger in a line and having it intersect at some point.

A younger generation knows Schlafly as the brand of an up-and-coming St. Louis brewery co-founded by Schlafly's nephew.