Last Monday, the United States Supreme Court handed down two decisions on patent matters: KSR v. Teleflex relating to the standards to be used in judging whether a claimed invention is obvious and so unpatentable; and Microsoft v. AT&T relating...

The term of copyright protection used to be, in certain fact situations, difficult to determine in the United States. Under the statutory scheme in place prior to January 1, 1978, a copyright had to be renewed many years after the work was...

U.S. Supreme Court Broadens Circumstances in which a Licensee can Challenge Validity of a Licensed...

This case involved an appeal of a grant of summary judgement of unenforceability and invalidity of four patents owned by...

In this case, which was decided on August 1, 2003, the Federal Circuit again addressed the question of anticipation by virtue of what was inherent in the prior...

This case saw a return to the question of what is meant by 35 USC 112 paragraph 6 which has been troubling the Federal Circuit and practitioners for much of the past...