- The “Commercial Offer for Sale” Standard After Minnesota Mining v. Chemque
By: Campbell Chiang
The Supreme Court established a two-part test for determining when an invention is “on sale” under 35 U.S.C. §102(b) in Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. For the on-sale bar to be ...
- Piracy Deserves No Privacy
By: Frank Chao
The Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA”), the music industry’s trade and lobbying group, recently initiated a controversial tactic to bring to surface previously anonymous digital pirates of the Internet. This ...
- Patenting Computer Data Structures: The Ghost, the Machine and the Federal Circuit
By: Andrew Joseph Hollander
Courts view “data structures,” the mechanism by which computers store data in meaningful relationships, differently than do computer scientists. While computer scientists recognize that data structures have aspects that are ...
- U.S. Infringement Liability for Foreign Sellers of Infringing Products
By: Troy Petersen
With the ever-increasing international flavor of business comes an important question for United States patent holders and foreign manufacturers alike: Can a company be held liable for patent infringement in the ...
- Lights, Camera, Lawsuit
By: A. J. Bedel
As the speed of Internet access improves, the film industry will need to explore its options for eliminating the downloading of digital movie files. After examining the successes and failures ...
