Insights
Can Open-Source Software enforcement help save the planet?
February 7th, 2022
#page-title:text-align: left; The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has sued smart TV manufacturer Vizio for alleged breaches of open-source software (OSS) licenses. Vizio smart TVs use the Linux operating system, which includes OSS. As opensource.c…
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Categories: Licensing
2021 Year in Review: Trademark Law
February 3rd, 2022
Here are some of the trademark law developments for 2021. Trademark Modernization Act One of the most significant changes was the roll-out of the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA): This rule establishes ex parte expungement and reexamination proceedi…
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Categories: Trademarks
2021 Year in Review: Copyright Law
February 1st, 2022
Here’s a look back at some of the significant copyright law developments in 2021. Google vs. Oracle The most important copyright decision of the year, which some have called the “copyright case of the decade,” was the US Supreme Court’s decis…
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Categories: Copyright
2021 Year in Review: Patent Trial and Appeal Board
January 31st, 2022
Here are some of the significant developments from 2021 relating to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). As the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) explains, The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is an adjudicative body within the U.S. Pat…
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Categories: Patents
USPTO Pilot Aims to Increase Efficiency
January 26th, 2022
In March of 2021, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked the interim director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to “initiate a pilot program directing examiners to apply a sequenced approach to patent examination,” ra…
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Categories: Patents
Software claims patent-eligible when directed to functionality improvements
January 24th, 2022
The Federal Circuit has reversed a decision by a federal court that a patent claim involving radio communications was abstract and thus not patent-eligible. Mentone Solutions LLC v. Digi International Inc. involved a patent that “relates to dynamic…
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Categories: Patents
Exchanging geographic and demographic data isn’t patentable
January 20th, 2022
A federal district court in Arizona recently invalidated a 2018 patent for a “System and Method for Selling Customer-Specific Data Subsets on a Third-Party Website Using a Web Widget.” As the court noted about the patent, Its first and on…
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Categories: Patentability Searches
Cryptocurrency Patents: New Innovations Revolutionizing the Fintech Industry
January 18th, 2022
The emergence of cryptocurrencies is disrupting almost every industry. Bitcoin started the crypto revolution in 2009 when an anonymous developer under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto first introduced the idea to the world. By the mid-2010s, Bitcoin st…
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Categories: Patents
Moderna and NIH Dispute Credit for COVID-19 Vaccine
January 13th, 2022
Moderna and the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) are fighting over who deserves credit for inventing the main component of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine. As the New York Times reports, The vaccine grew out of a four-year collaborat…
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Categories: Patents
TSA Ordered to Pay $100 Million for Patent Infringement
January 12th, 2022
As the Washington Post notes, Twenty months into the health crisis, travelers are eager for in-person celebrations far from home with family and friends. The number of people expected to fly this holiday season will approach pre-pandemic levels, airl…
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Categories: Patents
