By: Raph Y. Kim, Associate In the two opinions issued in March (Appeal No. 2020-1012 (March 11) and 2020-1288 (March 25)), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) held that that biotechnological patent applications owned by Stanford University and involving computational methods for predicting genetic outcomes […]

By: Richard A. Gollhofer, Partner As discussed in the blog post on April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Google LLC v. Oracle Am., Inc.1 saved Google $9 billion and prevented Oracle’s attempts to control use of the Android operating system in hundreds of millions of devices.  For […]

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The U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion on April 5, 2021 that held “Google’s copying of the Java SE API, which included only those lines of code that were needed to allow programmers to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program, was a fair use […]

In February 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark office (“USPTO”) released its annual Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 2020. Overall, the report showed an increase in U.S. trademark application filings in fiscal year 2020 but a slight decrease in trademark renewals compared to fiscal year 2019. U.S. […]