If we’re serious about keeping pace with China, we must restore the legal foundations that once made America the global leader in high-tech innovation. That means passing legislation like the ...

Thorough IP due diligence can determine not just the success of a transaction but your company's future market position.

Tech companies are embracing an unorthodox appellate procedure to challenge policy shifts expanding the US Patent and ...

Each rose developed by David Austin can take up to 12 years from the initial cross to commercial release. The business’s IP ...

The exercise of the intellectual property rights of patent holders is limited to the claims of their patent under the Doctrine of Equivalents. Thus declared the Supreme Court in the case of ...

The Court upheld that there is no literal infringement as the Phillips’ process contains three steps that are not present in the process of Patent I-31138. In determining whether there is infringement ...

The first article in this two-part mini-series discussed the merits and relevance of the ‘springboard doctrine’ permitting ‘retrospective’ effects of patent protection after its expiry. In certain ...

Patents, by their very definition, are limited in terms of time and territory. Despite this, a patent proprietor may claim damages for acts of infringement that occurred during the patent's term ...

To prevent the defendant from successfully invalidating the patent based on the doctrine of reverse estoppel, when interpreting the claims in the patent infringement proceedings, the patentee should ...

As a defense to infringement, Minerva Surgical argued that the continuation patent for the medical device is invalid. In turn, Hologic invoked the doctrine of assignor estoppel.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday narrowed the doctrine of patent assignor estoppel, which prohibits an inventor from assigning a patent to someone and then later contending in litigation that the patent ...