June 24, 2011

On June 23, 2011, the House of Representatives passed HR 1249, commonly known as the America Invents Act, which was mentioned in a previous post here (112th Congress Becomes the Fourth To Attempt to Tackle Patent Reform).  Of note, the…

June 20, 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a decision in the much-anticipated Microsoft v. i4i case.  In its decision, the Supreme Court affirmed that invalidity of a patent must be proved by clear and convincing evidence.  To read the full…

June 16, 2011

As a result of Leland Stanford Junior University  v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., No. 09-1159, organizations and universities subject to the Bayh-Dole Act should construct more effective assignment agreements with their employees instead of relying on the Bayh-Dole Act to…

June 8, 2011

In a 6–1–4 decision, an en banc Federal Circuit in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Company tries to cure the “plague” of inequitable conduct pleadings by raising the bar for proving that alleged bad acts were material to patentability…

June 2, 2011

Woodard, Emhardt recently made a donation to enhance the PubWEST patent searching terminals at the Siegesmund Engineering library at Purdue University.  The PubWEST system is only available to the public at designated Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs) and is…