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Protecting your IP with an Audit – and what to do if you’re audited
November 24th, 2020
“IP audit” can have two different meanings. One form of IP audit is more like an IP inventory – it looks at what IP a company has in its portfolio. The second type of IP audit involves checking whether a licensee is in compliance with its licen…
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Categories: Trade Secrets
Recent Patent Developments in the Autonomous Vehicle Market
November 20th, 2020
Large companies around the world continue to file patents for autonomous vehicles (AVs). AVs can improve road safety while lowering the environmental footprint of vehicles. Among those recently issued, some interesting ones are Apple’s Project Tita…
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Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of Patent Board
November 16th, 2020
The United State Supreme Court recently granted three petitions for certiorari that challenged the Federal Circuit’s ruling that administrative law judges on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) are appointed in violation of the Appointments Cl…
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Categories: Patents
Understanding the AI Patent Landscape
November 11th, 2020
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued a report on the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the world in general and on the patent system specifically. The USPTO even used AI to compile its report. It used a machine…
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How Might New Supreme Court Justice Barrett Rule on IP Cases?
November 2nd, 2020
How is the newest Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, likely to rule in Intellectual Property cases? Justice Barrett is only 48 years old. Given that Supreme Court justices serve for life, she could be interpreting the law for the next 40 years…
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Categories: Avoiding IP Litigation
The Changing Patent Landscape in the Semiconductor Space
October 29th, 2020
Patents are used extensively in the semiconductor industry. Digital consumer products like smartphones, computers, mobile phones, and televisions all use semiconductors. The global semiconductor industry’s revenues for 2019 was $419.15 billion…
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Categories: Patents
How IP Rights Can Be Waived to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic
October 26th, 2020
Moderna, a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently issued a statement that it wouldn’t enforce its COVID-19-related patents against other companies making vaccines to fight the virus. The company “is a pioneer in the dev…
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Categories: Patents
Cease-and-Desist Letters: How to Protect Your Brand without Alienating Customers
October 19th, 2020
As Fortune reported, “Actor Bill Murray is in hot water with the Doobie Brothers for using their 1972 hit “Listen to the Music” in commercials without the band’s permission. Normally, such disputes result in a quiet legal sett…
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Categories: Copyright
Protecting Recipes and Food as Intellectual Property
October 13th, 2020
If you’re involved in the food service industry, how can you protect your business from unauthorized copying of your recipes and food? Are those things even protectable? Trade Secrets As we discussed in this recent blog, one way to protect confiden…
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Court Finds that Trade “Secrets” Aren’t Secret on Zoom Call
October 6th, 2020
Trade secrets are a form of intellectual property that the law protects from unauthorized use or disclosure, under certain conditions. Trade secrets can be protected by both state and federal law. These laws vary, but all define trade secrets as info…
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Categories: Trade Secrets
