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WHY IS BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY A GAME CHANGER?

February 27 2018

In recent times, blockchain has gained a lot of prominence due to the exposure and coverage that was given to the advent of the cryptocurrencies. While the impact and significance of the cryptocurrencies has been a hot topic for debates, no one can truly doubt the potential that the blockchain holds. With adoption of the …

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$147.2 Million Jury Award against Blackberry Overturned

August 24 2014

On August 22, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s findings that Research In Motion Limited and Research In Motion Corporation (BlackBerry) did not infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,970,917 (“’917 patent”), owned at the time of suit by MFormation Technologies, Inc. and mFormation Software Technologies, Inc. (MST). After a jury trial …

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In Patent Infringement One Word Makes all the Difference

August 08 2014

In 2005, a pharmaceutical corporation named ScriptPro obtained a patent on a device relating to an automated prescription container dispensing system that automatically fills and labels pill bottles. See Scriptpro, LLC v. Innovation Associates, Inc., 2013-1561, 2014 WL 3844192, at * 1 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 6, 2014); COLLATING UNIT FOR USE WITH A CONTROL CENTER …

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Foreign Marketing Materials Relevant to Patent Infringement

August 08 2014

In Amdocs Ltd. v. Openet Telecom, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2014) the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently reversed the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in a case between competitors in the so called data mediation software industry. The case involves Amdocs Israel Limited (Amdocs), which sued Openet Telecom, …

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Stereolithography (SL) Resin Maker Desotech Fails to Prove Antitrust Claims

May 30 2014

3D Systems (DDD) won a second legal battle against DSM Desotech Inc. (Desotech) primarily regarding antitrust claims pertaining to resins used in additive manufacturing or 3D printing, specifically stereolithography (SL). Last month, the Appeals Court for the Northern District of Illinois affirmed the summary judgment granted by the District Court for defendant, 3D Systems. 3D …

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Amazon's Anticipatory Shipping Patent Explained

February 25 2014

At the tail end of 2013, Amazon (AMZN) obtained issuance of an interesting patent, claiming a system and method of anticipatory shipping, i.e. shipping one or more items in your general direction before you even purchase said items. The patent, entitled “Method and system for anticipatory package shipping,” can be read here. Of my own …

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Copyright Lawsuit Challenging Google’s Book Digitizing Program Dismissed Under Fair Use Doctrine

November 19 2013

At long last, Google has won. Specifically, Google has won the right to continue providing snippets of over 20 million books digitized from the collections of top public universities and libraries through its Google Books Library Project. Avid readers and researchers, most notably librarians and other scholars, are hailing the decision as an important step …

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War Among Tech Giants

November 01 2013

Apple, Microsoft, and others, team up to battle Google, Samsung, and several Android smartphone makers. Headlines on various reports appearing all over the net today are referring to a recently filed action for patent infringement as an all out nuclear war among technology giants. The suit names “Rockstar Bidco” – a group consisting of none other …

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Ibormeith IP, LLC v. Mercedes-Benz USA

October 27 2013

Ibormeith IP, LLC, a company owning the patent rights to technologies in the automotive industry, was assigned a patent on some really neat safety features for automobiles- a monitoring device to alert drivers that may be falling asleep. Due to an inadequate disclosure in the patent’s specification, however, Ibormeith recently lost its claim for patent …

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First Solar Buys GE’s Intellectual Property

August 09 2013

For a couple of years now, General Electric has been looking to make serious investments in solar energy research and development. In 2011 PrimeStar Solar and announced that they would use that company’s resources to begin manufacture of solar panels in Colorado. However, the enterprise came to an unexpected end yesterday when solar power rival, …

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the NSA

August 09 2013

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is best known as the preeminent digital rights advocacy group, possibly in the entire world. Think of any noteworthy piece of legislation in the past couple of decades and the EFF has more than likely participated in the drafting of that legislation, critiquing the legislation, or campaigned on behalf of digital …

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New Statesman Predicts a Robot Revolution

August 05 2013

There are many well founded fears about progress and how intellectual property may come to reshape our society. The New Statesman however, has hit on the most solid and grounded fear of them all: that robots are coming to steal your job. And not just blue collar jobs either, Alex Hern’s article opines that white …

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