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Cloud IP Interviews and Articles

Microsoft’s Azure IP Advantage programme puts Amazon’s AWS cloud offering under pressure like never before, IAM, Feb. 27, 2017.

Beware the IP non-assert clause in AWS cloud service agreement, warns ex-Microsoft patent chief, IAM, July 12, 2015.

IPQ: Enhancing Your IP IQ

Exhausted!: The Supreme Court Weakens Patent Owners’ Rights to Enforce Post-Sale Restrictions on Patented Products

August 2017

Wait For It: “Unreasonable Delay” in Bringing Suit is No Longer a Defense in Patent Cases

May 2017

Is Every Case Exceptional? Octane Fitness v. Icon Health & Fitness and Fee Awards

October 2016

Learning the Steps of the BPCIA’s Patent Dance: Notice of Commercial Marketing is Mandatory

September 2016

Protecting Trade Secrets? Beefy ‘Defend Trade Secrets Act’ to the Rescue

June 2016

Decoding Patent Eligibility of Diagnostic Methods

May 2016

Here, There and Everywhere: Jurisdiction and Venue in Patent Cases

April 2016

New Year, New Privilege: Patent Agents Gain Protection

March 2016

Concrete Signs of an Abstract Idea: Vehicle Intelligence May Peek Into the Future of Invalidity

February 2016

Proportionality in Perspective: Old Whine in New Bottles?

January 2016

On-Sale Bar Raised by Federal Circuit?

December 2015

Two Sides to the Lens: U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Take Different Views?

April 2015

One Thumb Up, One Thumb Down

February 2015

Apportionment Gets a Whole Lot of Attention in Landmark VirnetX, Inc. v. Apple Inc. (Part I)

January 2015

Is Alice Ten Feet Tall? New Guide for ‘Unpatentable’ Computer-Enabled Inventions

October 2014

Defining Indefiniteness: Supreme Court Says “Reasonably Certain”

September 2014

Induced Infringement Wobbles: Supreme Court Revives “Single Actor”

August 2014

Not-So-Expert Options? Daubert Challenges Abound in Apple Inc. v. Motorola, Inc.

June/July 2014

Easing “Exceptional Case,” Supreme Court Again Relaxes Federal Circuit Rules

May 2014

New Look at De Novo: Supreme Court Tackles De Novo Review of Claim Construction

April 2014

Startling Jurisdiction Expansion? “At War” Standard Modifies “Case-or-Controversy” Requirement

March 2014

EMVR’s Night of the Living Dead: EMVR Affects Damages Post-LaserDynamics

February 2014

New “Belief” Defense to Induced Infringement: Fixing What Isn’t Broken? 

November 2013

Taking Exception to “Exceptional Case”? Supreme Court Scrutinizes Rules

October 2013

Keeping the Door Ajar? Federal Circuit Says “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over”

September 2013

Top Secret or Tipped Secret? “Sealing Documents” Not So Simple

August 2013

Nature or Nurture? Myriad Decoded for Non-Biochemists

July 2013

Rand Royalties Revived: Does Microsoft Represent a “Georgia-Pacific” Test for Patent Royalties? (Part II) 

June 2013

Rand Royalties Refreshed: A Primer for a Modified Georgia-Pacific Patent Royalties Test? (Part I)

May 2013

“Arising Under” Jurisdiction Put Asunder? Supreme Court Adds Strokes to “Jackson Pollock” Canvas

April 2013

Big Changes Signaled for Patent Litigation? Federal Circuit Plays En Banc Card

March 2013

Tight Corner for Patent Injunctions? New “Drivers Demand” Test Portends Mischief 

February 2013

Not So Fast… Third Circuit Leaves Skid Marks on ESI “Costs”

January 2013

Knotty or Nice?

December 2012

Lump Sum Under the Carpet? Can’t Sweep 29 License Agreements under Reasonably Royalty Rug

November 2012

EMVR = Unobtainium? Federal Circuit Sets Unreachable Bar 

October 2012

Two-Edged Sword: How ‘Likely’ Will Preliminary Injunction Cut the Wrong Way?

September 2012

Aiming for the Heart? Judge Posner Slings Arrows at Patent Damages

August 2012

Another Domino? The Conundrum of Antitrust Policy v. Patent Rights

July 2012

What’s the Use? Understanding Method vs. Apparatus Use Infringement

Spring 2012

Claims Gone Wild? Courts Limit Number of Asserted Claims

February 2012

Win by Losing? Courts Applying New Rules to Ongoing Royalties

January 2012

Disarming ‘Atomic Bomb’: Federal Circuit Clips Inequitable Conduct

December 2011

Knock It Off! Court Raises Bar for Inducing Infringement

November 2011

“Cardinal Sin” – The Solution (Part II): Limiting Imitations In Claim Construction

October 2011

“Cardinal Sin” – The Problem (Part I): Importing Limitations in Claim Construction

September 2011

Noose or Loose? Mind the Ensnarement Trap Door

August 2011

Stuff that Genie Back in the Bottle: Stop Wishful Thinking About Royalty Base, Rate and the EMVR

July 2011

Avoiding the Train Wreck: A $200 Million Lesson

June 2011

Bayh-Dole Scope Shrinks

June 9, 2011

Has the Bayh-Dole Spigot Run Dry?

May 2011

False Marking Update: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

April 2011

Double the Trouble Double the Fun? Working with Hybrid Witnesses Under New Rule 26(a)(2)

March 2011

When It Takes Two to Tangle: Seven Things About Joint Infringement

February 2011

‘Who’d a Thunk It’ – Settlement Licenses Gain Traction and Put the Squeeze on NPE’s

January 2011

Ghost of Claims Past – A Short Refresher on Jepson Claims

December 2010

When is Final ‘Final – Judgment Decisions to Guide Your Path

November 2010

Don’t Get Spooked by Means-Plus-Functions ‘Equivalents’

October 2010

Everything Under the Sun or Partial Eclipse? Ten Rules for Patentable Subject Matter

August/September 2010

What’s Behind the Curtain? Exposing the Case Up Front with Twombly and Iqbal

July 2010

What to do Until the Life Guard Arrives . . . False Marking Claims After Forest Group and Solo Cup (Part II)

June 2010

Much Ado About Not Much? False Marking After Forest Group, Inc. v. Bon Tool Co., (Part I)

May 2010

Untangling a Mess in Texas: Lessons Learned From Transferring Venue in the Eastern District

April 2010

Assignor Estoppel: You Can’t Bite the Hand That Fed You

March 2010

Where to Begin? . . . How to Calculate “Reasonable” Percentage Rates for Reasonable Royalties

February 2010

Once Upon a Trial: Ten Tips for Telling Your Patent Story

January 2010

Beauty or the Beast? Ten Rules for 30(b)6) Corporate Depositions in Patent Cases

December 2009

Extra-What? “Clear” Rules Continually Clarified on Extraterritorial Application of Patent Laws

November 2009

Watershed Damages Decision? CAFC Weighs in on Issues, Proof Requirements

October 2009

Intellectual Property Rights: Who’s on First?

September 2009

Cracking Open the Book of Wisdom: Where the Past Can Become the Present

August 2009

Analyzing Patent Exhaustion – Tired Yet?

July 2009

Some Things Never Change: Apportionment and the “Entire Market Value Rule”

June 2009

Marking – Old Wine in New Bottles

May 2009

Six Rules on the Road to Lost Profits Damages

March 2009