Daily Archives: March 1, 2016

Apple is opposing an order by a federal magistrate judge to help the FBI unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters of the San Bernardino attacks. A judge ordered the tech giant to break into the iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook. ...

Those “who sweat in the clammy gymnasia of patent law” were impatiently waiting for the Alice decision. They thought they would get an answer to the question of whether or not software is patentable. In its June 19, 2014 ruling, the Supreme Court held that the patentability turned on a ...

Andrew Chin University of North Carolina School of Law Pillar 1, Proposal 2 relates to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s development of automated search tools for identifying potentially relevant prior art. The USPTO’s Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC) currently uses a search tool called the Patent Linguistic Utility ...