Thinking about the possible future issues with regard to larger companies entering the “patent pooling” / patent enforcing business model, I believe a future issue might be the concept of “tying,” (a concept I learned about during my time in China) where a company is approached to take a license for patents relating to one … Read more
Solicitor General patent infringement suit against an aggressive State of California hiding behind 11th Amendment. I was reading this morning’s post on the Patently-O Patent Law Blog about the Biomedical Patent Management Corp. (BPMC) v. California Department of Health Services (on petition for certiorari) brief by the Solicitor General. In short, I feel that the … Read more
I just read the US Court of Appeals opinion for the Aristocrat v. International Game Technology (IGT) case, and I want to mention that I am unhappy with the decision and I feel that the judge played semantics with the availability of defenses for patent infringement suits, although I do believe he properly applied the … Read more