Patent Baristas

Cordis and Johnson & Johnson tried to get a new trial and judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) following a jury verdict finding that they infringed Boston Scientific’s patent. Boston Scientific v. Cordis Corp. (08-1073).  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said that “because the court erred … in failing to […]

Patents Go International International patent filings under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) grew by 2.4% in 2008, to nearly 164,000 1 applications. While the rate of growth was modest, as compared to an average 9.3% rate of growth in the previous three years, the total number of applications for 2008 represents the highest number of […]

Do you know which companies the most profitable ones? Often, they’re not the best organized, the best run or even the best marketed. It turns out it is not about cutting costs, improving process efficiency and implement best practices – although those are all really noble endeavors. The real driver of profitability is the competitive […]

PatentCluster, a free clustering based patent search engine, provides a different way to search patents.   PatentCluster was founded after observing that existing patent search engines did not make it easy to understand the context of the patent search results and did not articulate the “big picture” of the overall concept of the search. Instead of […]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) released its Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement Manual, a publication designed to help businesses protect their consumers and brands. The manual features case studies on the proven strategies companies are implementing to protect their creative assets from criminal counterfeiting and piracy. The Intellectual Property Protection […]

Some days, you have to ask yourself if certain patent applications are filed purely for having them rejected and, in doing so, attempting to move back the line of just what is patenable.  Such it seems with the application at hand in In re Stephen w. Comiskey (06-1286).The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal […]

What:  Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal’s 25th Annual Symposium When: Friday, January 30, 2009 Where:  San Jose, Calif. Program: The 2009 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal Symposium takes place in the heart of Silicon Valley, where innovation is happening every day. For years, the Journal has dedicated symposia to […]

Scott Shane, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University, wrote up a detailed report on why the changes in the way damages are calculated in patent infringement lawsuits being asked for in various patent reform bills is wrong-headed. As reformers have proposed to change the method of calculating damages from a common-law methodology […]