Public transportation is the foundation of modern cities across the globe. Cities such as New York City expanded rapidly after the advent of the subway in particular, as the flat riding fee enabled residents to move out of tenements to…
In the last few years US patentability standards have remained unclear, and in some cases, become even more confusing. With the November election looming, a lame duck session following, and the signing of the TPP a few months prior, now…
Apple is accustomed to being a controversial pioneer in the tech world. Yet, a patent it was recently awarded is garnering more than the usual interest, and not for positive reasons. The patent entitled “[s]ystems and methods for receiving infrared…
In following with the recent trend, earlier this week yet another one of the previously prominent Intellectual Property Boutiques, Kenyon & Kenyon moved its practice and joined Andrews Kurth, a full-service Texas based firm.[i] As a current law student hoping…
The stage has officially been set for one of the largest biotech patent disputes to date. The stakes are high in this clash between scientific powerhouses: a potential Nobel Prize, the patent rights to a breakthrough gene-editing process, and (of…
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,…
