April 25, 2019

Bill McKenna quoted in The Information, “Amazon Tests Program to Combat Patent Infringement.” Amazon is testing a new program that allows merchants on its marketplace who are victimized by cheap, patent-violating knockoffs to get them removed in a few months…

February 12, 2019

It has become more and more routine in the past few years for a client to call Woodard, Emhardt, Henry, Reeves & Wagner, LLP regarding an infringing item being sold on Amazon.  Often the seller is new and/or located overseas. …

May 12, 2016

Judge Stivers of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky recently ordered that a patent infringement lawsuit filed against operators of historical horse racing games should be dismissed as the three patents asserted failed to claim patent…

March 18, 2013

Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) recently reintroduced H.R. 845, the Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes, or SHIELD Act. The bill seeks to “protect American tech companies from frivolous patent lawsuits that cost jobs and resources”…

November 19, 2012

What should you do if the U.S. Government infringes your patent?  Under 28 U.S.C. §1498, whenever the government uses or manufactures a invention covered by a patent of the United Stated, without a license from the owner, the owner may…