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It has been 20 years in the making, but a new regulatory scheme is quickly moving into force. This emerging regime may impact the development of, and intellectual property rights surrounding, an array of products, including pharmaceuticals, biotech products, agricultural products, nutritionals, supplements, cosmetics, perfumes and fragrances and industrial enzymes.

Finnegan partner Brian Kacedon was a guest on the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, where he discussed Medtronic's recent decision to make the intellectual property for their ventilators

After the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in ABC v. Aereo Inc., 134 S.Ct. 2498 (2014), that Aereo's internet retransmission service was "substantially similar" to cable, and therefore violated the Transmit Clause of the Copyright Act, ..

Settlement Evidence & Patent Damages - The article analyzes how courts have determined whether settlement license agreements and settlement license negotiations are discoverable and admissible to prove reasonable royalties and discusses important strategic issues that trial attorneys should consider.

The general take away is that parties have a right to enter into good and bad contracts – the law enforces both particularly when they involve sophisticated parties.

In 2014, a group of America's top technology companies created a unique way to combat the problem of patent assertion entities: the License On Transfer (LOT) Network. Founding members of the LOT Network included Canon, Dropbox, Google, SAP and Ford Motor Company.

Today, our Intellectual Property group issued a client alert entitled, A New Wrinkle in the Defense of Patent Exhaustion, covering the patent infringement case, Helferich Patent Licensing LLC v. The New York Times Company, et al., in which the court granted Summary Judgment in favor of the defendants.

On Oct. 12, 2014, the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits from their Utilization entered into international force.

Partner Richard Levy and Partner William Thomashower will be speaking at NYIPLA's event titled, "Pandemic Impacts on Trademark Enforcement, Licensing Breaches/Force Majeure...

In Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Apple Inc., No. 21-1568 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 9, 2022), the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the district court's denial of Uniloc's request to seal third-party licensing information...

The Southern District of New York has ruled that the consent decree under which the performance rights organization BMI operates neither bars fractional licensing nor requires full-licensing.

The world's most famous trade secret is probably the formula for Coca Cola.

A US Appeal Court has ruled that software companies can stop people from ‘re-selling’ their software if the terms of the software licence prohibit such re-sales.

When licensing a patent, software or other intellectual property from someone else, it's critical for the licensee to ensure that the relevant agreement grants license rights to all entities who need to use the intellectual property.

In a recent presentation, partner Heather Meeker provided an overview of open source licensing fundamentals for "lawyers, business persons or engineers.

WTF is an NFT? NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are all the rage, with some works being sold for six-figure prices.

In retrospect, perhaps the most significant innovation to have been introduced into the law of copyright and related rights by the WIPO Treaty and the WIPO Performers and Phonograms Treaty of 1996 was the new restricted act of "making available to the public" for both copyright ..