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On August 12, 2010, Oracle sued Google in U.S. District Court in San Francisco based on claims that Google’s Android operating system constitutes an infringement of Oracle’s patents and copyrights related to the Java software development platform. Oracle owns the...
Posted on August 18, 2010 4:48 PM
On June 28, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-anticipated opinion in the case of Bilski v. Kappos, which, it was hoped, would at long last provide much-needed guidance for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and for practitioners...
Posted on July 8, 2010 12:51 PM
Inventors and researchers often enter into agreements with other parties to develop, patent, and commercially exploit their inventions. But does such an agreement create a fiduciary relationship or is it nothing more than a simple contractual relationship? The answer to...
Posted on April 30, 2008 2:09 PM
The latest twist in the patent dispute between Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent demonstrates how difficult it can be for a business to enforce patent rights it thinks it holds. Even when a company gets a favorable verdict, true victory may be...
Posted by Jonathan C. Scott on August 20, 2007 8:49 AM
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