Oral arguments were under way at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Monday morning in the closely watched Myriad Genetics appeal (Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. USPTO, et al.), with a panel of three Federal

By Andrew Goldberg Amazon’s push to beat Google and Apple to the punch in unveiling its new “music locker” service this week could cause the company to face a combination of new copyright challenges. The e-commerce giant’s new cloud-based music

Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here’s a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing

Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen’s dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies.The

With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court’s chief judge to recuse himself from

Our competitors are never afraid to call a spade… a public interest group. Law360 seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included Americans for Fair Patent Use. Who is so concerned about such

This interview is part of a series following the Supreme Court’s Bilski decision, which left the laws on what you can get a patent on largely as they are, after a four-justice minority failed to ban “business method” patents.