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Showing posts with label software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label software. Show all posts
Monday, May 17, 2021

Guy Rub: Copyright or Contract?

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Using software often means you have to sign a contract as a condition for using the software. This "end user license agreement," c...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

How Does Patent Eligibility Affect Investment?

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David Taylor (SMU) was interested in how patent eligibility decisions at the Supreme Court affected venture investment decisions, so he thou...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Measuring Alice's Effect on Patent Prosecution

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It's a bit weird to write a blog post about something posted at another blog in order to bring attention to it, when that blog has many ...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Oracle v. Google Again: The Unicorn of a Fair Use Jury Reversal

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It's been about two years, so I guess it was about time to write about Oracle v. Google. The trigger this time: in a blockbuster opinion...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

[with Colleen Chien] Recap of the Berkley Software IP Symposium

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Slides and papers from the 20th Annual Berkeley Center for Law and Technology/Berkeley Technology Law Journal Symposium - focused on IP and...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Understanding the Role of Patents for Small Smartphone Companies

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When I think of smartphones and smartphone patents, I think of the big battles and players: Apple v. Samsung, Motorola v. Microsoft, NTP v. ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Do Venture Capitalists Value Patents?

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This is a simple, but important question. Do venture capitalists value patents? You would think the answer is an easy yes based on survey da...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Patentable Subject Matter and Non-Patent Innovation Incentives

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I just posted my symposium essay from U.C. Irvine's Meaning of Myriad Conference: Patentable Subject Matter and Non-Patent Innovation I...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Are R&D tax credits the software patent solution?

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The Federal Circuit's fractured en banc decision in CLS Bank v. Alice probably pleased only those patent litigators who might benefit f...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

SCU Software Patent Conference Recap

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Friday was Santa Clara's Solutions to the Software Patent Problem conference, which I've previously blogged about, and I was able...
Friday, October 12, 2012

More Software Patent Commentary

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Software patents are a hot topic these days! Three weeks ago, I posted about Lemley's proposal to fix software patents with functional c...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Software Patent Solutions

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Readers who have been following our  recent posts on Lemley's software patent solution might be interested in Santa Clara's upcomi...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

More on Lemley and Software Patents

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Tan Mau Wu's post yesterday on Mark Lemley's Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming questions whether restricting ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Lemley: Software Patents and Functional Claiming

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Here’s a software claim from a recent Federal Circuit decision (pulled from Patently-O ): 1. A data processing system to enable the exchang...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Allison, Tiller, Zyontz, & Bligh: Patent Litigation and the Internet

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Following State Street Bank and now Bilski , certain Internet business methods remain “patentable subject matter” under Section 101 . Given...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Great Minds Don’t Always Think Alike: Patent Inflation Sparks Debate Among Scholars

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A couple months ago this blog highlighted an intriguing recent article by Jonathan Masur titled Patent Inflation ( original post ) that pr...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Allison, Lemley & Walker: Repeat Patent Litigants

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Do repeat patent plaintiffs have stronger patents? Are they more likely to settle to prevent these patents from being invalidated? John Alli...