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Valentine’s Day Video

  • Post author:dwalston
  • Post published:February 10, 2022
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We've put together a little video about Valentine's Day. First, we give the historical background about who Saint Valentine was, and how he came to be celebrated. Then the transformation from…

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Supreme Court: Less focus on patent matters post-Alice

  • Post author:dwalston
  • Post published:January 25, 2022
  • Post category:Uncategorized

Alice v CLS (2014) was a landmark case for patent eligibility. The decision held that Alice’s patents were invalid because the claims were drawn to an abstract idea and implementing…

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Artificial Intelligence as Inventor

  • Post author:dwalston
  • Post published:January 10, 2022
  • Post category:Uncategorized

DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) An AI machine program called DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) was created as a series of neural…

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Appealing Patent Decisions- How likely are they to be reversed?

  • Post author:dwalston
  • Post published:January 3, 2022
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Over the last 5 years (FY 2017-2021) about 61 percent of the cases at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) concern patents. There are three sources for…

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De Minimis Defense Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Minimal Use

  • Post author:dwalston
  • Post published:December 13, 2021
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There is a Latin maxim: de minimis non curat lex: The law does not care about the smallest thing. De minimis, in legal terms, means the thing is too trivial or…

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Patent Eligibility of Blockchain Inventions

  • Post author:dwalston
  • Post published:December 3, 2021
  • Post category:Uncategorized

The Australian Patent Office recently handed down a decision clarifying the patent eligibility of blockchain inventions, at least so far as Australian law is concerned. Blockchain is a kind of…

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Update on IPRs

  • Post author:dwalston
  • Post published:November 22, 2021
  • Post category:Uncategorized

An Inter Partes Review is a proceeding before the USPTO, which allows third parties to challenge the validity of the claims of an issued patent without going into federal court.…

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New FishFAQ Video: Opposing Patents

  • Post author:dwalston
  • Post published:November 19, 2021
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There is a new FishFAQ video up on our Fish IP Law YouTube channel. This one covers opposing patents and answers questions about keeping track of competitors patents, how to oppose competing patent apps,…

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Unitary Patent in Europe

  • Post author:dwalston
  • Post published:November 16, 2021
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Since the 70’s there have been various attempts to replace individual European country patents with a unified patent good throughout participating countries. As it currently stands, there is a partially…

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Non-Fungible Tokens and Copyrights

  • Post author:dwalston
  • Post published:November 15, 2021
  • Post category:Uncategorized

What is a non-fungible token? Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique pieces of data stored on a digital ledger- a blockchain. Non-fungible just means they are unique and can’t be exactly…

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