One of the most important copyright cases was recently decided by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, addressing Google’s use of Java code owned by Oracle. On March 27, 2018, in Oracle...
On March 27, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in In re Brandt, which is just another case in a long line of cases dealing with ranges and obviousness under 35 U.S.C. §103....
U.S. Patent No. 9,889,100 B2 issued on February 13, 2018, for “Cannabidiol for Treatment of Severe and Refractory Graft-Versus-Host Disease.” The inventor is Moshe Yeshurun, and the...
On March 21, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a split decision in Williams v. Gaye, that the Estate of Marvin Gaye was entitled to broad copyright protection over Gaye’s 1977...
On March 23, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down DSS Techs. Mgmt., Inc. v. Apple Inc., reversing two IPR decisions in Apple’s favor on a DSS-owned patent which the PTAB...
In another fairly big copyright decision by a federal court of appeals, another seeming technological innovation in the digital space was viewed as copyright infringement. The Court of Appeals for...
On March 19, 2018, the Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit handed down Dell Inc. v. Acceleron, LLC (and an erratum) In this case, the panel, composed of Judges Moore, Reyna, and Taranto, ruled that...
On March 19, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected, in In re Power Integrations, Inc., a PTAB decision finding that claims were invalidated as anticipated as unreasonably...
On March 14, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Hologic, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., which deals with many areas in patents, including foreign applications, priority...
U.S. Patent No. 9,895,342 B2 issued on February 20, 2018, for “Cannabinoids for Use in the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain.” It is assigned to GW Pharma Ltd., which is a fairly large pharmaceutical...