By Erin Wiggins | February 20, 2018
What can automotive industry legal leaders do to protect their organizations from patent trolls that want only to profit from broad ranging suits that are about payouts and payoffs—a “cost of business” that has given other industries nothing but grief and expense? Adapt and prepare.
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By Karen L. Dunn and Meredith R. Dearborn | February 15, 2018
Waymo v. Uber—the recent battle royale over the future of self-driving car technology—ended in a settlement between the parties, but an important legal question remains decidedly unsettled. In the words of Judge William H. Alsup, who presided over the case: “Is an engineer really supposed to get a frontal lobotomy before they go to the next job?”
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By Nimalka Wickramasekera and Jason Hamilton | February 13, 2018
While Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group, challenging the constitutionality of “inter partes review” (IPR) proceedings, has received the lion's share of coverage, the U.S. Supreme Court's other IPR case—SAS Institute v. Matal—warrants attention.
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By Barbara Melby and Eric J. Pennesi | February 6, 2018
With technology being the ultimate enabler across the majority of industries, commercially available “off the shelf” software products have become the lifeline of many businesses.
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By Gabriel Buigas | February 6, 2018
The “digital transformation” of legal services involves the application of technology-enabled efficiencies, process optimization and appropriate resource mix to the delivery of legal services to maximize client value, both in terms of costs and business impact.
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By Brett J. Rosen | January 30, 2018
Apple will soon return to court to continue its legal battle with Samsung over Samsung's infringement of Apple's iPhone design. The latest chapter of this saga concerns the proper methodology for calculating damages that Samsung must pay to Apple for infringing Apple's design patents.
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By Rasha Gerges Shields | January 24, 2018
In the era of telecommuting and daily cyberbreaches, companies face an ever-increasing challenge protecting their data from improper disclosures. Although many companies have invested in technology that protects them (to a certain extent) from outside intruders, these technological advancements do very little to stop the insider threat—disloyal and disgruntled employees.
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By Robert L. Maier | January 23, 2018
Patent and Trademark Law columnist Robert L. Maier writes: The Supreme Court's May 2017 decision in 'TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods Group Brands' reshaped the patent litigation landscape in the United States—now more evenly dispersing patent cases across courts nationwide. But courts continue to grapple with questions spawned by that decision, including as to whether it constituted a change in the law that could permit defendants in now-pending cases to raise new venue objections, even if they had not done so before.
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By Lawrence E. Ashery | January 23, 2018
If the survival and growth of your business depends on the development of new technology, the beginning of the new year is a good time to think about your intellectual property (IP) protection and how it can be improved.
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By Sharad K. Bijanki | January 16, 2018
Under either the residence or place of business theory of venue,, the result is that more patent cases are expected to be filed in Georgia in the long term, and the nature of the patent cases filed here will change, with more defendants being incorporated in Georgia or having a physical location here.
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