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 […]
[Archived Post] The European Union Extends Copyright in Design—and Critics Balk (Yet Again)
By Bhamati Viswanathan The European Union recently decided to support the productive labors of designers by extending legal protections of their works in all areas of copyright, design, and patent […]
[Archived Post] Law Professors & Economists Urge Caution on VENUE Act in Letter to Congress
Today, 28 law professors, economists, and political scientists from across the nation submitted a letter to Congress expressing serious concerns about the recent push for sweeping changes to patent litigation […]
[Archived Post] CPIP Scholars File Amicus Brief in Trading Technologies v. CQG
By Bhamati Viswanathan Earlier this month, CPIP Senior Scholar Adam Mossoff penned an amicus brief in Trading Technologies v. CQG, currently on appeal to the Federal Circuit. The brief was […]
[Archived Post] Letter on FCC Set-Top Box Regulation Once Again Confuses the Issue
By Kevin Madigan Last week, a group of law professors wrote a letter to the acting Librarian of Congress in which they claim that the current FCC proposal to regulate […]
[Archived Post] Federal Circuit Brings Some Clarity and Sanity Back to Patent Eligibility Doctrine
By Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan Following the Supreme Court’s four decisions on patent eligibility for inventions under § 101 of the Patent Act, there has been much disruption and […]
[Archived Post] Proposed CREATES Act Threatens Patent Owners’ Rights
By Erika Lietzan, Kevin Madigan, & Mark Schultz Earlier this month, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act (or CREATES Act). […]
[Archived Post] Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Google’s Patent Transparency Hypocrisy
It is common today to hear that it’s simply impossible to search a field of technology to determine whether patents are valid or if there’s even freedom to operate at […]
[Archived Post] How Strong Patents Make Wealthy Nations
By Devlin Hartline & Kevin Madigan How did the world’s wealthiest nations grow rich? The answer, according to Professor Stephen Haber of Stanford University, is that “they had well-developed systems […]
[Archived Post] IP Scholars to FCC: It’s Not About “The Box”
This past April, we joined other IP scholars in explaining how the FCC’s proposed set-top box rules would undermine the property rights of creators and copyright owners. In reply comments […]