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Patently Bad Move Gags Critics
Last week, RFID access device company HID Global got IOActive researcher Chris Paget to pull his talk from Black Hat DC because they claimed that demonstrating…
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Supreme Court Holds Licensees in Good Standing May Seek Declaratory Judgment on Patent Validity, Enforceability, or Infringement
Petitioner MedImmune entered a patent license agreement with respondent Genentech in 1997. Under the arrangement, MedImmune agreed to pay royalties on sales of…
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Federal Circuit Rules That Explicit Assignment of Right to Sue without Transfer of All Substantial Patent Rights Is Insufficient
The court started its analysis by re-stating that there are three groups of parties that are entitled to bring a patent suit: (1) patentee, (2) successors in ti…
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Internet at the next Ocean Tomo IP Auction
For the past year I’ve tracked the series of Ocean Tomo Patent / IP Auctions. The third in the series occurs April 2007 in Chicago, and I just received the cat…