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Taylor Swift, a pop star with sufficient power to move mountains, succeeded in moving an equally resolute object last year: Apple Music’s position on... Read More »

Summary Voters in the U.K. recently passed a referendum paving the way for the U.K. to leave the European Union (EU). In response, British Prime Minister David... Read More »

In an en banc decision on July 12, 2016 in The Medicines Co. v. Hospira, Inc., the Federal Circuit established the circumstances under which a product manufactured... Read More »

Mini Melts opposed Reckitt’s intent-to-use applications for “MINI-MELTS” and “MINIMELTS,” alleging a likelihood of confusion with its... Read More »

Obvious Combinations Do Not Need to Be Physically Combinable In Allied Erecting and Dismantling Co., Inc. v. Genesis Attachments, LLC, Appeal No. 2015-1533, the... Read More »

Patentees suing alleged infringers have learned from a long history of federal district court and Federal Circuit rulings that (paraphrasing the Miranda warning given ... Read More »

This week at Patexia, we asked our data science team to look into the most popular U.S. district courts for patent litigation. This is important in light of the... Read More »

In light of Enfish and DDR Holdings, software patent owners are quick to point out how their inventions improve the functioning of the computer itself. However, it is ... Read More »

Polaroid v. Kodak, concluded in 1991 after 15 years, was the first “billion dollar” patent damages award ($909 million).  Until this year, it... Read More »

Patexia has lately learned from a number of sources that Samsung may be in the process of changing their filing strategy in the US. These sources indicated that... Read More »

Since the America Invents Act (AIA) became effective on September 16, 2012, the Inter-Partes Review (IPR) has drawn significant attention. Additionally, discussion... Read More »

Is it any wonder why patents are widely despised and holders mistrusted? Patents and other IP rights have been caught in the perfect storm of anger towards... Read More »

Seventy-one percent of patent claims for which inter partes review are instituted are canceled. You knew that. You knew your patent was subject to IPR cancelation by... Read More »

Last week we reported the 2016 top 25 law firms ranked by the number of patent practitioners. This week, our Data Science Team looked at the same raw data for... Read More »

With approximately 50 percent of all US (first or second) marriages ending in divorce, the proper identification and allocation of all marital assets is critical to... Read More »

This week at Patexia, we analyzed information for all registered patent practitioners in the US. As of July 2016, we found 44,424 registered patent practitioners, of... Read More »

This week, the Patexia Data Science Team analyzed the recent patent litigation data obtained from PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) to understand ... Read More »

This week, the Patexia Data Science Team looked at multiple data sets from different sources, including the United States Patent Office (USPTO), PACER (Public Access... Read More »

This Thursday there will be another Patexia IP Matters webinar, this time by Mr. Manny Schecter, Chief patent Counsel of IBM who is going to focus on Alice Case... Read More »