The Alice Case, First-to-File, and more from ‘Entrepreneur’s Guide to IP’!
Our latest video clips from ‘The Entrepreneurs Guide to IP’ feature USC Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship Luke Dauchot (Kirkland & Ellis) and guest lecturer Gavin Moler (Kirkland & Ellis). Their lectures cover the patentability of software and...
Forum Shopping in Patent Cases
By David Kline Many defendants in patent infringement cases argue that case law (such as VE Holding in 1990) allowing patent lawsuits to be filed in any district in which the defendant has sales have only encouraged abusive patent litigation. They say this practice,...
Do Infringers Pay for the Whole Product or the Infringing Component?
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...