The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) provides under 17 U.S.C. § 512 a safe harbor defense to copyright infringement for providers that have adopted and reasonably implemented a policy that terminates subscribers who are repeat copyright infringers. Many companies have terms of use and other company policies designed to take advantage of such DMCA [...]
On March 29, 2018, partner Shauna Wertheim will teach “Avoiding Copyright and Trademark Infringement Online.” This is Shauna’s 17th year teaching the course, and her second time co-teaching it. The DC Bar offers the course in person on Monday, March 19 from 6-8:15 PM at the DC Bar in Washington, DC. Those interested may [...]
While the federal government helps protect and even enforce patents, sometimes government procurement can be the cause of patent infringement. Science Applications International Corp. (“SAIC”) has found itself in that situation, and SAIC is currently fighting at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (“Court of Federal Claims”) to keep federal procurement entities from infringing [...]
In Travel Sentry, Inc. v. David A. Tropp (Travel Sentry III), a panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) broadened the scope of potential liability for joint patent infringement by expanding the definition of direct infringement. Direct infringement requires that all steps of a patented method to be performed by [...]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) issued an opinion this week that stands as a reminder to companies that locking up employee assignments of patents as early as possible is of true importance. In Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corp (Appeal No. 2016-2309 decided January 11, 2018) the [...]
On February 9, 2018, Partner Bob Hansen will speak at the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Patent Prosecution Bootcamp in Denver, Colorado. The seminar, to be held February 7-9 at the USPTO’s Rocky Mountain Region office, includes instructional sessions and hands-on claim drafting workshops taught by skilled and experienced private and corporate practitioners. [...]
In what is arguably a good turn of events for patent rights holders, in a recent decision the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) upheld the challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,144,182 (the ‘182 patent) owned by Biscotti, Inc. (Biscotti) against three separate IPR proceedings filed by Microsoft Corporation [...]
On January 18, 2018, Dr. Junqi Hang and Ms. Monica Ma of Dragon IP (Beijing, China) visited Marbury and provided an update on IP enforcement in China. We thank them for their visit and their enlightening presentations. 謝謝! Dragon IP: http://www.dragonip.com/en/ (中文: http://www.dragonip.com/cn/)
