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  • Jury Finds For Google On Oracle Patent Claims In California Federal Court

    SAN FRANCSICO - (Mealey's) After seven days of deliberation, a California federal jury yesterday acquitted Google Inc. of patent infringement claims levied by Oracle America Inc. (Oracle America Inc. v. Google Inc., No. ...

  • Supreme Court Vacates and Remands Software Patent Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in WildTangent, Inc. v. Ultramercial, LLC, et al., and has instructed the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to revisit its WildTangent decision in light of t

  • Prometheus Based Patent Reexamination Requests?

    This past March, as most in the patent community are well aware, the Supreme Court recalibrated 35 U.S.C. § 101 in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus. The decision held that certain patents of Prometheus  ....

  • USPTO Justifies Supplemental Examination Guidelines

    Supplemental Examination (SE) is a mechanism of the AIA that is designed to effectively cure inequitable conduct via a new post grant proceeding of the USPTO. This mechanism, effective September 16, 2012 will be  ....

  • Building a Better Post Grant

    Currently, the USPTO has two principal ways of challenging granted patents - inter partes reexamination and ex parte reexamination. Both of these are an examination performed in the Patent Examining Corps, specifically ....

LexisNexis® Copyright & Trademark Law / Patent Law Communities Podcast: John McKeown and James Davis Update the Application Process for ICANN's Expansion of Generic Top-Level Domains: What Brand Owners Need to Know

On this edition, John McKeown of CasselsBrock in Toronto and James Davis of Arent…

Patents Post-Grant: Prometheus Based Patent Reexamination Requests?

Patentable Subject Matter Challenge Advanced in Patent Reexamination This past March…

Senators Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch Comment on Patent Reform Bill’s (S. 23) Introduction

Comment Of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, On…

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