The twenty-first century" patent litigation explosion" is not unprecedented. In fact, the nineteenth century saw an even bigger surge of patent cases. During that era, the most …
The patent system seems in the midst of truly dramatic change. The last twenty years have seen the rise of a new business model-the patent trollthat grew to become a majority of all …
IN September 2012, eighty-one companies with nonsensical names such as CleOrv, DucPla, and EntNil began sending letters to over 16,000 businesses throughout the United …
Many observers believe the American patent system is in crisis. 1 Complaints are often aimed at the US Patent and Trademark Office (" PTO"), which, by many accounts, issues too …
For most of patent law's 200-plus year history, patent holders could sue only in the district inhabited by the defendant. In 1990, the United States Court ofAppeals for the Federal …
Software innovation is transforming the US economy. Yet our understanding of how patents and patent transactions support this innovation is limited by a lack of public information …
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The Supreme Court's recent decision in Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc. 1 leaves a loophole in patent infringement law open with respect to divided infringement …
In 1999, a Canadian company, Research in Motion (RIM), launched the Blackberry e-mail pager.'The pager was an instant commercial success amongst businesspeople and …
In many patent infringement cases, the only practical way that the plaintiff can obtain relief is on a theory of secondary liability, which is generally referred to as indirect infringement. The …