Intellectual Property Law
The King Arthur stories are some of my all-time favorites so I thought I would share this story. And by the way, the copyrights for these books are most definitely in the public domain. Link to Livescience article
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about whether the America Invents Act (AIA) changed the Patent On-Sale bar. The US Supreme Court answered this question in a short, unanimous opinion by Justice Thomas, with the answer being, no, the AIA did not change the Patent On-Sale bar. In its review of the case, the …
The US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published an updated Examiner Guidance that applies to the examination of software patent applications (See 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance, 84 Fed. Reg. 50). The hope is that these new Guidelines will speed up the application review process and provide more predictability for the patenting …
That’s a little bit what starting this adventure in blogging feels like. It is also the ending to Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” On January 1, 2019, most copyrighted works published in 1923 went into the public domain. This includes several notable works including “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy …
The U.S Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month regarding whether the America Invents Act changed the definition of the on-sale bar for patents. Before the AIA, the on-sale bar meant that an applicant for a patent could not have sold or attempted to sell the claimed invention before the filing of a patent application. …
Welcome to my first blog post where I will be making posts about current events in the world of Intellectual Property Law and Legal Technology. I hope you find it informative. Send us a message on the Contact Us page if you have a question or need help.
