Use caution in con’s *

USA - March 28 2013
In prosecuting design patent applications, it is common practice to use dashed lines to depict a feature of the design that is illustrated for…

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The SHIELD act - is creating “second class citizenship” for certain patent owners the answer to the “troll problem”? *

USA - March 1 2013
Rep. Peter DeFazio recently introduced a bill to the House, H.R. 845, cited at the "Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of…

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A divided en banc Federal Circuit changes the law of divided infringement *

USA - September 1 2012
For the last five years, the law with respect to liability for inducement of a method claim was relatively clear and fairly consistently applied. 

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Parallel IC investigation and district court proceedings: be careful what you ask for *

USA - August 29 2012
Since the Supreme Court’s decision in eBay made it more difficult to obtain injunctive relief in district court proceedings, patent owners have given more attention to the International Trade Commission ("ITC") and have used parallel district court litigation and ITC investigations to pursue both money damages and injunctive relief. 

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ITC on 337 cases – no NPE problem here? *

USA - July 20 2012
In the wake of substantial lobbying by many companies in the tech sector to limit ITC jurisdiction to prevent non-practicing entitities (NPEs) from initiating 337 actions, the ITC published a press release, Facts and Trends Regarding USITC 337 Investigations. 

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