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Supreme Court finds for Monsanto in seed harvesting case

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2013

In Bowman v. Monsanto Co., the Supreme Court held that the doctrine of patent exhaustion does not give a farmer who has bought patented seeds the

Patent exhaustion and self-replicating technologies

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

Today in Bowman v. Monstanto Co., 569 U.S. __ (2013), a unanimous Supreme Court held that under the doctrine of patent exhaustion,the authorized sale

En banc decision in CLS Bank: no clear resolution for eligibility of computer-related inventions

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

The appeal arose from a grant of summary judgment from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia that the asserted claims of

Federal Circuit issues fractured affirmance in CLS Bank v. Alice Corporation

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 12 2013

In a fractured en banc decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court's holding that the claims at issue in CLS Bank v. Alice Corporation

PARTS Act could limit automotive design patent enforceability to 2.5 years

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2013

On April 23, 2013, H.R. 16631 "Promoting Automotive Repair, Trade, and Sales Act of 2013'' or the ''PARTS Act'', was referred to the House

USPTO reshuffles the RCE deck

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2013

The USPTO still is considering information gathered during its RCE Outreach program, but it has made some internal changes that should lead to more

Federal Circuit upholds one claim covering Combigan

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

In Allergan, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc., the Federal Circuit reversed the district court in part, finding that Allergan's composition claims and most of

Federal Circuit holds that patent indefiniteness requires insoluble ambiguousness

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

In Biosig Instruments, Inc. v. Nautilus Inc., the Federal Circuit reversed the district court's finding that the claims at issue were invalid as

Another potential trap for the unwary: inventor remuneration and reward under the Draft Rules on Inventor-Employee Inventions

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • May 1 2013

On November 12, 2012, the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO) issued the Draft Rules on Inventor-Employee

Dispelling the Myriad gene patent harmonization myth

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • Australia, Canada, European Union, France, Germany, Japan, USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

In the wake of the Supreme Court oral arguments in the Myriad "gene patent" case, most commentators are predicting that the Court will uphold the