The US. Supreme Court decided today the high-stakes software patent case Bilski v. Kappos, No. 08-964, June 28, 2010, affirming the Federal Circuit’s judgment. (find our previous post here) In Bilski, the Federal Circuit had rejected patent claims involving a method of hedging risks in commodities trading. The questions decided by the Court were: (1) [...]
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The following is an excerpt from “Complex Patent Suits: The Use of Special Masters for Claim Construction” by Neil A. Smith published at Landslide by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law. When a complex patent infringement case arises, it can be in the client’s or the court’s best interest to bring in an expert [...]
A single-member Panel at the National Arbitration Forum decided the domain dispute Microsoft Corporation v. TN Chen, FA0911001296240 (Nat. Arb. Forum Jan. 13, 2010). The Complainant is Microsoft Corporation and the Respondent is TN Chen from China. The domain names at issue are <bing-wallpaper.com> and <bingimg.com>, registered with GoDaddy.com, Inc. “Bing” is the name of [...]
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As previously discussed, today the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments for Bilski v. Kappos, a high-stakes software patent case (the transcript is here). In Bilski, the Federal Circuit rejected patent claims involving a method of hedging risks in commodities trading. The U.S. Supreme Court is now asked to decide whether the Patent Act contemplates the [...]
Peter S. Vogel, trial partner at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP and contributor to this blog, wrote a interesting article about arbitrating patent infringement licenses. Here is an excerpt: Markman Hearings. In 1996, the US Supreme Court (Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 517 U.S. 370 (1996)) established a procedure by which US District Judges hear evidence [...]
A panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) decided recently the domain name dispute Lacoste Alligator S.A. v. LaCoste Healing Jewelry, WIPO Case No. D2009-0700. The Complainant is Lacoste Alligator, S.A., a clothing company famous for manufacturing tennis shirts, owner of the word mark LACOSTE (USPTO No. 1947111). Respondent is LaCoste Healing Jewelry, owned [...]
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Recently, a panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) granted Research in Motion 101 disputed domain names. In Research in Motion Limited v. Georges Elias, WIPO Case No. D2009-0218, the Complainant is Research in Motion, the owner of the registered marks for BLACKBERRY (U.S. and Canada) and BERRY (Hong Kong). Respondent is Georges Elias, [...]
Via the IPWatchdog, we learned that today the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to In re Bilski. This is significant because In re Bilski deals with the controversial issue of allowing software patents as patentable subject matter. Learn more here: US Supreme Court Grants Cert. in Bilski., Gene Quinn, IPWatchdog, June 1, 2009. Technorati Tags: [...]
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As a future computer scientist, it is hard not to write about the most recent issue of Landslide, published by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law. The magazine contains an excellent article by Mark V. B. Partridge and Scott T. Lonardo. The authors discuss ICANN‘s recent developments in the Internet domain name system: Domain [...]
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As reported today by the Domain Name Wire, SAP, the multinational software company, lost a domain name dispute against UniSAP, a provider of SAP consulting services. The dispute was resolved by a panel at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. In SAP AG v. UniSAP, Inc., No. D2009-0297, the disputed domain name was unisap.com. The [...]
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