Deciphering the PCT Application Process
While there is no such thing as a world-wide patent, there is something that approximates a world-wide patent application that can result...
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10 Prior Art Search Mistakes That Undermine Your Inter Partes Review
An Inter Partes Review (IPR) is a trial held before the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to cancel specific claims of a...
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Can You Sue The Government For Patent Infringement?
A patent is a contract between the patent owner and the government that gives the patent owner the legal right to exclude others from...
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Calculating Damages During Patent Litigation
“Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted, counts.” - Albert Einstein (on a blackboard) A patent...
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Understanding Open-Source Software and License Regimes
Open-source software today has not only allowed programmers to write increasingly complex software – but also democratized the software...
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Donating Patents: What It Means and Why To Do It?
Any company or individual can forfeit intellectual property rights in a patent by filing a disclaimer under Title 35, section 253 of the...
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Demystifying Trade Secrets
What is a Trade Secret? A trade secret is any information used in commerce that the owner has taken reasonable measures to keep secret,...
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Digital Rights Management (DRM): Comparing PlayReady, FairPlay and WideVine
Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to the set of policies and rights, used to prevent unauthorized user to access the digital content
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Overcoming Prior Art Under U.S.C. §103 (Non-Obviousness)
35 USC §103 describes the condition of patentability referred to as non-obviousness. It reads as follows: ‘’A patent for a claimed...
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Indirect Patent Infringement: What is it and How to prove it?
Receiving a patent does not automatically provide patent holders with security against patent infringement.
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