On May 15, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (The Federal Circuit) handed down its decision in Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Elecs. Co. The court held that Samsung’s mobile phones had infringed two of Apple’s…
Texas hedge fund manager and founder of Hayman Capital Management, J. Kyle Bass, has riled up the pharmaceutical industry. Bass formed the Coalition for Affordable Drugs, an organization that is the lead petitioner in several challenges to Orange Book-listed patents—a…
The phrase “patent troll” has been an Internet buzzword for almost a decade but the search for and implementation of effective tools to curb patent trolling is undoubtedly an ongoing endeavor. This blog post surveys current efforts to restrain patent…
Dr. Hideo Kodama developed the first three-dimensional printing technology, called Rapid Prototyping (“RP”), in 1980. Kodama developed his RP technology for creating industrial prototypes. Kodama unfortunately failed to file the full patent specification before the one-year deadline. Six years later,…
Amie Gibbons, Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D. 2013 Consider these scenarios: A man on the run from a corporation who has the rights to a specific gene line in his body, and the willingness to take samples from him by…
