May 30, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
Inventors keep filing for patents, despite a fairly hostile judicial atmosphere for patents (such as declaring patents are no longer private property, adding new limitations on where patentees can bring suit against infringers, weakening the standard for invalidating...
May 23, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
The Central Valley is not just the agricultural center of California (and the country), and a great place to live and raise a family. It is starting to become a center for tech. It was recently highlighted as a place for VCs to consider investing in “Why You Should...
Apr 28, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
A Crested Macaque named Naruto was just doing his thing on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia in 2011 when he came across an unattended camera. Though he was only six or seven years old at the time, he decided to do his best Millenial impression and takes some...
Apr 24, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
Today the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Oil States Energy Services, Inc. v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC. The Court determined that patents are “public rights” subject to evisceration by political appointees. The importance of the decision...
Apr 20, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
There are plenty of “gotchas” that inventors face. We will list some of these in a future post, but this alone should be enough: Simply leaving out a line in the patent application wiped out a patent that E*Trade was allegedly infringing. There will...
Apr 17, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
A federal district court judge has struck down California’s AB 1687, a law which forbade a popular film industry website from publishing certain truthful age-related information about actors, finding it in violation of the First Amendment. In 2016, IMDb.com, Inc. sued...