It should come as no surprise that defending against Non-Producing Entities—most of which are Patent Trolls[1]—is expensive, especially for small businesses and corporations. In support of his ongoing legal battle with the patent troll Personal Audio, LLC, Adam
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Are Computer-implemented Inventions Patent Eligible? Go ask Alice
By Winstead
On June 19, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l (Alice)[i]. In Alice, the Court held that several computer-implemented patents were not eligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. §101…
Carolla Going after the Patent Trolls
By Michael Pham
Adam Carolla continues his battle against the patent troll, Personal Audio, LLC. So far, Carolla has spent more than $450,000 in attorney fees. The result? There has been enough discovery for Carolla to determine that Personal Audio does not have…
Financing with IP Collateral
By Winstead
In a recent guest post on the Patently-O blog by Dennis Crouch, http://patentlyo.com/, William Mann, an assistant professor of finance at the Anderson School of Management, UCLA, notes the explosion in USPTO filings that record a creditor’s security interest…
API Protection Under Copyright Is Upheld by Federal Circuit
There has been a lingering, divisive question in the software industry as to whether application programming interfaces (APIs) are entitled to copyright subject matter protection. Critics argue that this type of source code is functional in nature and, as such,…
Crowdfunding in Texas – When?
Removal of Patent Troll Bill
By Michael Pham
Last Wednesday, May 21, the Senate Judiciary Committee removed a bill from their agenda that sought to protect companies against “patent trolls,” which are companies whose main business is to gather patents, threaten infringement lawsuits and then offer to settle…
Is Dolly the Sheep Dead Again?
By David Gabor
The exceptions to patent eligibility under 35 USC 101 always fell into three distinct categories: laws of nature, abstract ideas, and natural phenomena. In deciding a case about whether claims of farm animals may be patented, according to some commentators,…
