We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 16, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., Case No. 2011-1301 (Fed. Cir. July 9, 2012) (attached). Alice sued CLS for infringement of four patents claiming methods, systems and computer [...]
We will be discussing recent trends and changes at the US Patent and Trademark Office and implementation of the America Invents Act during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, April 23, 2012. Some of the topics that we will discuss include: Efforts by the USPTO to reduce the backlog in examination of patent [...]
We will be discussing two recent cases. The first concerns two competitors with very similar patents issued in rapid succession. The second deals with recovery for damages as a result of a wrongfully issued preliminary injunction. We will discuss these cases in our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 11, 2011. Brief synopses [...]
We will be discussing two recent Supreme Court cases. The first maintains the standard of proof that must be met by a defendant in seeking to invalidate a patent. The second concerns the scope of the interest retained by an inventor in an invention subject to the Bayh-Dole Act. We will discuss these cases in [...]
Please join us for the SoCal IP Institute meeting, Monday, September 20 at Noon. This activity is approved for 1 hour of MCLE credit. If you will be joining us, please RSVP to Amanda Jones by 9 am Monday. We will be discussing the following cases: Tri-Star Electronics International, Inc. v. Preci-Dip Durtal SA, (Fed. [...]