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Patenting Diagnostic Tests: Can We Expect Changes?

Leslie Kushner

This article discusses the jurisprudence applied to determining patent eligibility of claims for diagnostic methods, and the expectation for changes in analysis of patent eligibility under §101 in the near future.

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IP News

Joshua R. Stein & Jeff Ginsberg

Federal Circuit Holds PTAB Judges Unconstitutional, Constructs a Fix—But Not All Judges Agree on What Happens Next

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More Chinese Companies Are Joining U.S. Firms to Fight Patent Trolls

Phillip Bantz

Some of China's largest companies have banded together with major brands in the United States and elsewhere to neutralize "patent trolls," an indication that the country's firms are becoming increasingly concerned about patent infringement litigation.

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IP News

George Soussou & Jeff Ginsberg

More Than a Recitation of Hooke's Law Needed for Patent Protection A Claim for a Chair Limits the Claim to a Chair

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The Madrid System Turns 30: The Pros and Cons of Using the Madrid Protocol in the United States and for U.S. Based Companies Image

The Madrid System Turns 30: The Pros and Cons of Using the Madrid Protocol in the United States and for U.S. Based Companies

Stacey C. Kalamaras

This summer, the Madrid System turned 30 years old, and as two more countries prepare to join the Madrid Protocol we look at how the Madrid System has grown as it enters full adulthood.

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Exploring the Nebulous Boundaries of Trade Dress

Nicole D. Galli

Now that we are in the digital age, questions have been raised about the trade dress of websites and apps.

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Damages for Extraterritorial Infringement of U.S. Patents

Aaron Davidson 

A look at the gray area of infringement of U.S. patents in the U.S., but with related consequences or actions outside the U.S.

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Rights and Obligations In Patent Licenses

Tom Gushue

The owner of a commercially successful patent may have competing desires. On one hand, the patent owner wants to protect the patent and secure its maximum benefit; on the other hand, the patent owner wants to avoid enforcement litigation with competitors because it is expensive and puts the patent at risk.

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Did Congress Create Unintended Risks to Innovators In the AIA? 

Glenn E.J. Murphy

Many observers greeted the passage of the AIA into law as a long-overdue overhaul of U.S. patent law that aligned it with patent systems prevailing in the rest of the world. Who knew what mischief just seven of the AIA's more than 25,000 words contained? The U.S. Supreme Court answered earlier this year.

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Takeaways from the Recent Qualcomm Decision

Karen Hoffman Lent & Kenneth Schwartz

The DOJ's intervention, and the judge's ultimate decision, has exposed tensions between the DOJ and FTC, and within the FTC itself, and public scrutiny is far from over as the case heads to the Ninth Circuit on appeal.

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