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Most video game patents that are asserted in litigation are also challenged at the PTAB through IPR or PGR petitions. Patent Owners looking for new ways attack such challenges

With little fanfare, the presiding federal district judge in the GEICO v. Google case issued the muchanticipated and long-awaited written order on Google’s motion for judgment on the pleadings. As previously chronicled, the court, on August 25, 2004, issued an order denying, in part, the motions to dismiss of defendants Google, Inc. and Overture Services, Inc.

Panomap Technologies, LLC has filed a patent infringement claim in the Orlando federal court.

As part of its ambitious book digitization project, Google has been scanning the archives of several libraries, including the New York Public Library, Stanford University, and Harvard University.

This episode is about generic toplevel domains, we have an interview with Ted Davis on Federal Trademark Caselaw.

In a decision Friday, Judge Koeltl ruled that the Internet Archive ("IA"), the nonprofit entity behind the popular "Wayback Machine...

The .app generic top-level domain (gTLD) launches March 29, 2018, and brand owners will have a little more than a month to register domains in the Sunrise Period.

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) typically applies a two-times or three-times multiple to the current suggested retail price of the most recent version of the software.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held that downloading copyrighted songs from the internet is copyright infringement and cannot be defended as fair use. BMG Music v. Gonzalez, Case No. 05-1314 (7th Cir. Dec.12, 2005) (Easterbrook, J.).

Most technology-related contracts have provisions that seek to protect the seller or licensor’s intellectual property rights.

Only two days remain to submit applications to block registration of .xxx domain names that include registered trademarks.

Large companies that invest heavily in software licensing are familiar with the extremely one-sided nature of most software license audit clauses.

Software publishers are regularly auditing customers to ensure compliance with license agreements, and may initiate audits directly, or through entities such as BSA|The Software Alliance, and the Software & Information Industry Association.

On March 1, 2016, the Federal Circuit, in Blue Calypso, LLC v. Groupon, Inc. (Appeal Nos. 15-1391, -1393, and -1394), ruled that a document posted on a webpage did not qualify as prior art under the printed publication provision of 35 U.S.C. § 102(b).

inovia's "U.S. 2011 Global Patent & IP Trends Indicator" provides an in-depth look at the foreign filing strategies of US patentees

Many proclaimed the death of software patents after the Supreme Court's Alice v CLS Bank decision in June 2014.

The Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security recently decided to maintain the status quo in its "deemed export" rule, which imposes control of sensitive technology based on a foreign national’s most recent country of citizenship or permanent residence. In maintaining the current rule, BIS has rejected its own Office of Inspector General ("OIG") recommendation to change the rule to the foreign national’s country of birth. In its recommendation, the OIG expressed concern that the cu

"Gates" as scandals probably started with Watergate but many other embarrassments followed suit with a similar gating moniker.