Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
I wrote last year about the decision by Ben & Jerry’s not to renew its license agreement with Avi Zinger’s company, American Quality Products, when that license expires at the…
We refer to patents, trademarks and copyrights as "intellectual property" in part because they have attributes of what we normally think of as tangible property. Just as ownership of…
As I mentioned yesterday, the Minister of Health signed an order this week allowing the state to import generic Kaletra (a combination of lopinavir and ritonavir) to be used, potentially,…
On Friday a panel of the Federal Circuit (Judges Dyk, Moore and Reyna) ruled that sovereign immunity does not shield Indian Tribes from patent challenges via the inter partes review…
Several years ago, at the behest of Israel patent practitioners who were miffed that their lawyer colleagues receive a cute picture ID card every year from the bar association, the…
In 2014 we wrote about a report from the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association which listed the universities worldwide that received the most U.S. utility patents in…
(March 19: see update here.) Israel has national elections next month, in which, yet again, Israelis will get to go to the polls to vote for a party that won’t…
Yesterday Elon Musk of Tesla Motors put up this blog post, in which he is apparently trying to say that as long as he's in charge, Telsa won't enforce any of…
Today Don Zuhn at PatentDocs posted about a report from the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association, which lists the universities worldwide that received the most…
I’m Dan Feigelson. I’ve been practicing patent law for over 30 years. I’m also opinionated, as you may discover in reading my writings here.