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The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") this week adopted a significant change to the notification rules under the Hart Scott Rodino ("HSR") Act that will increase the number of pharmaceutical patent licenses covered by the Act.

Though politics ruled the headlines in 2016, the year still brought big changes in intellectual property law and its application, most notably in patent subject matter eligibility, inter partes review institution and appeal and design patent damages.

Perceptix Technologies LLC has accused Meta Platforms (8:25-cv-01404) of infringing a single patent generally related to a certain "headset for a user specific audio service...

A software audit typically resolves in one of three ways: a dismissal, a settlement, or litigation.

in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, photographer Jeffrey Sedlik has accused celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D of infringing Sedlik's copyright in...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed dismissal of a patent licensee’s declaratory judgment action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, finding that the licensee, MedImmune, failed to establish that an actual controversy existed between it and the licensor, Centocor.

With the increase in patentable subject matter rejections, particularly in the business-method and e-commerce art units, copyright deserves renewed attention as a means of protecting software and websites. While copyright generally protects only the expression of the software and websites, e.g., the code itself, such protection can arise automatically and copyrights can also be inexpensive to register.

Software publishers that try to require an indemnification clause from their customers for use of the publisher's software are often met with resistance.

On December 22, 2025, the FDAapprovedmAbxience and Amneal's Biologics Licensing Applications (BLAs) for BONCRESA (denosumab-mobz) and OZILTUS (denosumab-mobz)...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that a termination provision in the license agreement precludes the agreement from being held the equivalent of an assignment for purposes of determining who has standing to sue.

Navigating intellectual property protections and issues can be a complicated and challenging process for emerging companies.

In a move that attorneys say could reshape patent licensing negotiations, the U.S. Supreme Court could soon hear arguments in a case that could discard a 50-year-old rule banning royalty agreements...

In many software development agreements, the customer has to accept the software before the contract is complete.

Palo Alto Intellectual Property Transactions partner Richard Hsu was quoted in an article, titled "Optimising Value in IP Assets," in Financier Worldwide.

Oracle sued Google six years ago, claiming that Google needs a license to use parts of the Java platform in Google's Android operating system.

Innovator Donny Beaver, HalenHardy LLC's CEO, discovered several different ideas. However, almost all of his inventions actually came from pre-existing products and ideas that he found on the internet.

When it comes to software license compliance, being compliant with the publisher’s licensing rules can be daunting enough.