BTLJ Spring Patent Reform Roundup
With spring in the air, it is time to take another look at current news in the world of patent troll litigation. By now full-fledged...
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Bowman v. Monsanto: Patent Exhaustion and the Self-Replicating Invention
What’s the case about? The Doctrine of Patent Exhaustion holds that the authorized sale of a patented item extinguishes all of the patent holder’s rights...
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BTLJ Holiday Patent Reform Round Up
We are now in the tail end of the season where millions of America brave wintry weather, TSA pat downs, and slow airplane wifi to...
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Will the New USPTO Administrative Proceedings Solve the Software Patent Problem?
Amidst current discussions on the “problem” posed by software patents, David Kappos, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), recently delivered a speech defending...
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Finjan v. Secure Computing: Direct Infringement of Apparatus Claims by Software That Requires User Unlocking or Activation
In the recent Finjan v. Secure Computing decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed that software that is sold in locked or inactivated form can directly infringe...