Tag: Google
Federal Circuit: Server Is Not A Regular And Established Place Of Business
Today, the Federal Circuit granted a writ of mandamus, ordering the Eastern District of Texas to dismiss or transfer a case for lack of venue. This order is the latest in a series of Federal Circuit...
Why Was Oracle v. Google in the Federal Circuit?
Last week, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Google v. Oracle, preparing to review the Federal Circuit’s decision that application programming interfaces (APIs) are copyrightable and that the ...
Iancu’s First Hearing Answers Questions, Leaves More Open
On Wednesday, April 18, new USPTO Director Andrei Iancu appeared for his first oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Director was more open with the Committee compared to...
ContentGuard: Arguendo
Today, we watched as a man stood in front of a panel and explained how the other side had behaved improperly and how the decisions they made were incorrect and contrary to applicable legal standards.
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ContentGuard: Validity and Privilege
Monday I summarized the history of the ContentGuard cases, and yesterday I described the process of claim interpretation. Today, we’ll turn to an issue that we’ve focused on recently, patent val...
ContentGuard: Defining A Patent Case
Yesterday, I went through the history of the ContentGuard v. Apple and ContentGuard v. Google cases. I talked briefly about the Markman process; today, I’d like to go into more detail on what Mark...
Previewing ContentGuard v. Apple and Google at the Federal Circuit
This Thursday, June 8, the Federal Circuit will hold oral argument in ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. and in ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. v Google, Inc. (The Google case also includes a nu...
Uniloc-ing Defendants Into The Eastern District of Texas
Yesterday, Uniloc sued Google in the Eastern District of Texas. Uniloc is a Luxembourg based company, not a Texas company.[1. They incorporated in Luxembourg for tax reasons. There are a number of...
Are Copyright and Patent Overlapping or Mutually Exclusive in Protecting Software Innovations?
“Neither the Copyright Statute nor any other says that because a thing is patentable it may not be copyrighted. We should not so hold.” So said the Supreme Court in Mazer v. Stein, 347 U.S. 201, 2...