IP Wise is moving.
Our firm, Brann & Isaacson, launched its new website, www.brannlaw.com, on Friday. And that site is the new home of IP Wise at http://www.brannlaw.com/ip-wise/.
Same authors, same content, same perspective on the intersection of IP law and litigation and the business community. Not even the name has been changed
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A Little Light Reading
On the eve of Labor Day weekend, perhaps you were planning on sneaking off to the beach with the latest bestseller. Just in case you were looking for a bit more serious fare, the U.S. Copyright Office has obliged, releasing a compendium that tips the scales at over 1,200 pages.
Perhaps you are less than…
More Bad News For NPEs At The ITC
Last month an administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission posed a straightforward question, and gave a straightforward answer:
“whether a licensing entity whose patent-related activities are purely revenue driven can choose to prove the existence of a domestic industry under subsections (A) and (B) of section 337(a)(3), avoiding the requirements of subsection (C)?…
Yes, Patent Trolls Are Doing What You Think They Are Doing
Timothy Lee of Vox directs our attention to the latest empirical study into the economic impact of patent trolls: a paper published by Lauren Cohen of the Harvard Business School, Umit G. Gurum of the University of Texas at Dallas, and Scott Duke Kominers of Harvard, entitled simply, “Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms…
When Should You Ask Alice?
Friday was a good day for AOL, Google, IAC Search & Media, Gannet Company, and Target. The Federal Circuit reversed a district court determination that patents asserted against them by I/P Engine were valid and infringed. For the disinterested reader, however, the Federal Circuit’s split opinion was as interesting for how the panel reached the…
Patent Reform: Not (Yet) A Dead Letter
Pardon the pun.
Patent reform, a perpetual hot topic of conversation in the halls of the United States Congress, is seemingly on the minds of five Democratic senators who are trying a different tactic: Administrative, rather than legislative, reform.
In a recent letter to the Secretary of Commerce, the coalition urged five goals formulated under…
A Patented Problem
Tough time to be at the Patent & Trademark Office. Reports surfaced last month that a recent investigation had revealed that the federal government had paid out nearly $5 million to work-at-home PTO paralegals hired in 2009 to ease the patent backlog for exercising, doing laundry, surfing the Internet, and watching TV – because of…
A Fraternity of Federal Judges
We’ve mentioned the reversal rates on claim construction before – under the current de novo standard of review (no deference) the Federal Circuit routinely reverses trial judges on claim construction, very often the decisive issue. The Supreme Court has recently agreed to hear the case of Teva Pharmaceuticals v. Sandoz, which will address the issue…
No. 1 Most Wanted
We wanted to direct our readers to an interesting blog post from the Wall Street Journal’s “Market Watch.” In sum, if you work in the ecommerce industry, and feel as though the problem of patent trolls is getting out of hand – you’re not alone. Fascinatingly, relying on data compiled by Patent Freedom, Market Watch…