Patent Baristas

In a spate of recent articles, it would seem that the world has come to an end in terms of high-tech IPOs — not to mention venture backing of early-stage start-ups.  Because of the recent market turmoil, the M&A market has has come to a screeching halt and the window of opportunity for IPOs has […]

The Center for American and International Law is holding its 46th Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law (CAILAW) at its headquarters in Plano on November 10-11, 2008. From 3:30pm-4:15pm on November 10, I will be part of a law blogger panel “All the News That’s Fit to Blawg,” which asks whether or not bloggers are […]

Like it or not, more and more people find themselves in need of obtaining the time and service of lawyers and, as they say, time is money. Not only that, substantive rights are often on the line as clients deal with life and death matters from wills and trust to contracts and real estate to […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave a high-five to settlement agreements between a patent holder and a generic manufacturer saying it doesn’t violate antitrust laws under the Hatch-Waxman Act.  In re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation (08-1097). The agreements in question involved a reverse payment from the Bayer to Barr, but did […]

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down the long awaited en banc decision on In re Bilski (07-1130) in which the court looked at the question of when does a claim that contains both mental and physical steps create patent-eligible subject matter and whether a method or process must result in a […]

According to biotechTransfer week, the IRS set to look over the financial statements of public and private colleges and universities for unrelated income sources like tech transfer. The Internal Revenue Service is looking to gather information from hundreds of US colleges, universities, and affiliated organizations such as foundations and academic medical centers about their financial […]

John J. Doll, Commissioner for Patents, US Patent & Trademark Office, talked today at the BIO Intellectual Property Counsel Committee’s Fall Conference and Committee Meeting, a group with a very keen sense of the importance of patents. He livened up the discussion in extolling that “We [the Patent Office] don’t have a standard so we’d […]

In a session on Case Law Updates, a panel discussion at the the BIO Intellectual Property Counsel Committee’s Fall Conference and Committee Meeting brought up that there was previously a lot of attention on infringement but lately it has been off radar except for joint joint infringement. Joint infringement comes up as a big issue […]