Guest post by Professors Jonathan S. Masur (Chicago Law) and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette (Stanford Law). What is it that makes a use “public” for purposes of the public use bar? Does it matter whether ...
“Even prototypes expected to be subjected to further development should be tightly controlled and not employed to perform revenue-generating activities until appropriate patent applications have been ...
A “public use” of a claimed invention, by anyone, prior to the critical date will render the corresponding patent claims invalid (or unpatentable), if the invention, at the time of the public use, was ...
Bottom line in this new Minerva case — file your patent application before bringing a new product to a trade show. The Old Case: The battle between Hologic and Minerva went to the US Supreme Court in ...
Under Arizona’s Constitution, as under its federal counterpart, a condemning authority may acquire private property if the use to which the acquired property will be put is a proper public use. From ...
ABSTRACT: In 2011, Congress enacted the America Invents Act (AIA), the most substantial overhaul of the patent system in the past sixty years. The most significant change in the AIA was the move from ...
The Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which upheld the use of eminent domain to take homes for transfer to a private developer in order to promote "economic development," ...