On March 8, 2017, CPIP Scholars Adam Mossoff, Devlin Hartline, Chris Holman, Sean O’Connor, Kristen Osenga, & Mark Schultz joined an amicus brief in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods. CPIP […]
[Archived Post] CPIP Scholars Join Open Letter Providing IP Guidance for New Administration and Congress
By Kevin Madigan The Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property and several of its Senior Scholars are proud to support an open letter released today providing intellectual property guidelines […]
[Archived Post] CPIP Scholars File Amicus Brief Urging Consideration of Claimed Inventions as a Whole
By David Lund Last week, CPIP Senior Scholar Adam Mossoff and I filed an amicus brief on behalf of 15 law professors, including CPIP’s Devlin Hartline, Chris Holman, Sean O’Connor, Kristen Osenga, […]
[Archived Post] How IP Helps Individuals
By Maryna Koberidze This is the second in a series of posts summarizing CPIP’s 2016 Fall Conference, “Intellectual Property and Global Prosperity.” The Conference was held at Antonin Scalia Law […]
[Archived Post] Trading Technologies v. CQG: Federal Circuit Gets One Right On Software Patents
By David Lund The Federal Circuit issued another important opinion yesterday affirming that software is a patentable invention in the United States. In Trading Technologies Int’l, Inc. v. CQG, Inc., […]
[Archived Post] Creative Upstarts and Startups: How IP Creates Opportunities and Opens Doors
By Maryna Koberidze This is the first in a series of posts summarizing CPIP’s 2016 Fall Conference, “Intellectual Property & Global Prosperity.“ The conference was held at Antonin Scalia Law […]
[Archived Post] CPIP, USPTO, & Lemelson Center Host “Great Inventors” Panel Discussion at American History Museum
On February 16, 2017, CPIP hosted a panel discussion, America as a Place of Innovation: Great Inventors and the Patent System, at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in […]
[Archived Post] Federal Circuit Improperly Extends Abstract Idea Exception to Industrial Machines
By David Lund An oil well drilling rig is not an abstract idea. A method of operating an oil well drilling rig is also not an abstract idea. This proposition […]
[Archived Post] New CPIP Report: The Global Patent Pendency Problem
Why are some of the biggest fights about patent policy almost pointless in some places? Because in many countries, including some of the world’s most important emerging economies, it takes […]
[Archived Post] Federal Circuit Again Finds Computer-Implemented Invention Patent Eligible
By Devlin Hartline In Tuesday’s McRO v. Bandai decision, the Federal Circuit has once again reversed a district court’s determination that a computer-implemented invention (aka “software patent”) was not patent […]