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Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Unpatentability Finding for Palo Alto Networks

The Federal Circuit on Thursday affirmed a PTAB ruling that held certain claims of a patent for network intrusion monitoring ...
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Your Product Works: Do You Have the Rights to Commercialize It?

The demo works. A potential customer is interested. But the company’s customer commitments must match the rights it actually ...
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C4IP Urges Treasury to Reconsider Proposed Rule to Extend COINS Act Investment Restrictions to Biotech

The Council for Innovation Promotion issued a statement Tuesday expressing concern about a rule recently proposed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to enact the COINS Act.
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Viral, Valuable, and Potentially Costly: Who Owns Memes?

A meme can travel from a private joke to a global advertising campaign before its creator – or the owner of the image behind ...
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Executable Knowledge Artifacts and the Law: The Problem and a Framework

For most of professional history, experience could not be separated from the professional who acquired it. However, modern ...
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CAFC Affirms Ticketing Companies’ Motions to Dismiss Due to Pro Se Plaintiff’s Failure to Timely Oppose

The CAFC today affirmed the dismissal of a pro se patent owner’s claims against Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Major League ...
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Inventor Advocacy Groups File Amici Briefs Supporting Centripetal’s Claim Construction Challenge at SCOTUS

Last week, the Alliance for U.S. Startups and Inventors for Jobs (USIJ) filed an amicus brief in support of the Centripetal ...
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Federal Circuit Affirms Section 101 Rejection of Pro Se Applicant’s Bartering Method Claims

The Federal Circuit issued a decision today affirming a PTAB decision that upheld the rejection of all pending claims in a ...
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U.S. Chamber Index Finds 8 of 12 Sampled Economies Score Below 50% in Benchmark of Trade in Unsafe Medicines

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) released the first edition of its Trade in Unsafe ...
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SCOTUS Ends Decade Long Copyright Case Against State of North Carolina

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in a decade-plus long case that led to a Supreme Court decision as well as ...
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One Voice, One Law: Artists Need a Federal Voice Right, Not a State-by-State Patchwork

If Congress passed one voice law tomorrow, the single thing it must get right is ownership. The artist has to own their voice ...
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Patent Bots Introduces Sprocket, an AI Drafting Assistant for Patent Prep and Prosecution

Patent Bots, the patent legal tech platform trusted by 45 of the top 100 patent law firms, today introduced Sprocket, an AI ...