Patent Infringement By Richard Stockton, Kevin Keenan, and Brad Van Pelt In 2011, Apple sued Samsung for, among other things, patent infringement of three U.S. patents — two claiming designs for parts of a smartphone, and one for a graphical user interface of a...
By David Kline A January 2017 release from Simon Tam’s dance rock group The Slants is called “The Band Who Must Not Be Named” — and for good reason. Despite making music for more than a decade, the world’s first all Asian-American dance rock band had...
Michelson IP Community College Pilot The Michelson Intellectual Property Initiative, “Michelson IP” is rolling into community colleges nationwide! In partnership with The National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE), Michelson 20MM has announced...
Mark Finkelstein and Scott Miller Section 284 of the U.S. Patent Act provides that if a defendant has been found to have infringed a patent, “the court may increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed” after a finding that the infringement was...
By David KlineIn June of 2014, The U.S. Supreme Court issued its most consequential decision on the patentability of software since it upheld the first software patent 33 years previously. In Alice v. CLS Bank, the Court ruled that taking some activity that people...