Archive for the ‘Patentability’ Category
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Christopher Hansen, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, has become involved in a patent case for an "abstract idea". The patent in dispute belongs to Bernard L. Bilski:
"In 2006, Bilski sought a patent for his idea that the weather risk involved in buying and selling commodities could be ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Under Canadian patent law, the scope of patentable subject matter is still expanding. But under U.S. patent law, “anything under the sun made by man” is patentable. This has come to include patents for computer software.
Software patents raise a debate over which algorithms are novel, and which are non-obvious. Some ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
In June 2007, the BBC reported, that scientists from the J. Craig Venter
Institute had applied to patent the method they plan to use to create
their synthetic organism. According to the article, the Institute is
claiming exclusive ownership of a set of 381 essential genes believed
necessary to keep an organism ...
Posted in Patentability, Patents, IP | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
In March 2007, the district court in Alexandria, Virginia held that
Vonage, a company which uses voice over IP technology, had infringed claims
of three patents owned by Verizon Communications, and that those patents were
not invalid as obvious. The judgement awarded $58,000,000 in damages and a
royalty of 5.5% on any future ...
Posted in Infringement, Patentability, Patents, IP | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
In this age where the advancement and innovation of science and technology
is heavily sought after as an ideal, and the “progress of science”
specifically promoted by the US Constitution, it seems altogether
inappropriate that Verizon was able to sue Vonage for damages amounting to
US$58 million for infringing 3 of its patents ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Upon discovery of the J. Craig Venter Institute’s
(Institute) application for patent protection on a
synthetic life form, called “Mycoplasma laboratorium”,
the ETC Group promptly announced its intention to
challenge the patent and urged the relevant
authorities to reject the application as contrary to
public morality and safety. The ETC Group does not
contend that the invention ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
In May of 2007 scientists at J. Craig Venter Institute filed a U.S.
patent application on the world's first synthetic living organism
(U.S. Patent application number 20070122826). The patent application
claims include a set of essential genes required to provide the bare
essentials of life as well as a "free-living organism that can grow
and ...
Posted in Cross Border Issues, Patentability, Patents, IP | 1 Comment »
