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For venture capitalists, investing in innovative startups with intellectual property (IP) often proves to be a pivotal strategy that leads to differentiation and growth. With the right acquisitions, thousands of VCs have a decades-long competitive ed… Read More

The Federal Circuit has upheld two district court judgments in favor of Apple, finding that the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) had 1) abandoned its doctrine-of-equivalents theory and 2) that a second suit for alleged infringement of the… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s contempt orders against the sole officer of a patent-owning plaintiff entity who failed to appear at multiple court-ordered evidentiary hearings. The case is Backertop Licensing LLC v. Canary Connect… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a California district court ruling that a patent for e-signature technology was invalid under Section 101. The case is eSignature Software, LLC v. Adobe Inc. According to Deloitte, In 2020, estimates of the size of th… Read More

There are reportedly around 67,200 artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the world, and about 25% of them are based in the United States. Also, According to PwC’s Global Artificial Intelligence Study, the global AI market is expected to reach $… Read More

MIT Technology Review has reported that the team that earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing CRISPR is asking to cancel two of their own European patents. The patents being voluntarily disavowed are EP2800811, granted in 2017, and EP34014… Read More

In a 277-page opinion, a federal court judge ruled that Google is a monopolist and that the company has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The New York Times reported that this “was the first antitrust decision of the modern internet… Read More

A federal court in Oklahoma has dismissed a plaintiff’s patent infringement claims because of a typo made by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or PTO). The case is SIPCO, LLC v. JASCO Prods. Co. In 2019, Plaintiff SIPCO, LLC sued Defendant… Read More