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September 15, 2023 | By S&H
Posted in: General

STAAS & HALSEY LLP CELEBRATED 50 PLUS YEARS IN 2022

STAAS & HALSEY LLP CELEBRATED 50 PLUS YEARS IN 2022 Specializing exclusively in intellectual property, Staas & Halsey LLP brings together technical and legal expertise in our commitment to provide quality legal representation. Since 1971, we have provided clients with technical expertise and intellectual property protection. We provide our clients […]

September 15, 2023 | By S&H
Posted in: S&H Firm News

Staas & Halsey LLP Has Gone Paperless!

Since about the year 2010, our firm has maintained duplicative paper and electronic “official” files for each of our client’s matters.  Effective January 1, 2020, our firm discontinued maintenance and use of our “official” paper client files, and instead relies only on our electronic official client files.  This change in […]

September 15, 2023 | By S&H
Posted in: USPTO News

USPTO Petition Data for July 2023

USPTO Petition Data for July 2023 – Frequently Filed Petitions in the Office of Petitions Petition Type Avg Days Pending of Decided Petitions in the Past 12 Months Grant Rate Percent of Total Petitions Decided in the Past 12 Months To Make Entity Status Large from Small 125 81% To […]

February 24, 2022 | By S&H
Posted in: S&H Firm News | S&H IP Blog

STAAS & HALSEY LLP CELEBRATES 50 PLUS YEARS IN 2022

Specializing exclusively in intellectual property, Staas & Halsey LLP brings together technical and legal expertise in our commitment to provide quality legal representation. Since 1971, we have provided clients with technical expertise and intellectual property protection. We provide our clients with high quality and high value intellectual property protection through […]

September 22, 2021 | By S&H
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. District Courts

A CLAIM RECITING AN ABSTRACT IDEA PERFOMED BY GENERIC COMPONENTS MAY NOT RECITE PATENTABLE SUBJECT MATTER

By: Sunil Chacko, Associate In Zyrcuits IP LLC v. Acuity Brands, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware invalidated US Patent. No. 6,667,307 under 35 USC §101 for claiming ineligible subject patent matter. Patent 6,667,307 Patent ‘307 is directed to method for sending data over a communication channel. […]

June 23, 2021 | By S&H
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | USPTO News

Annual Citizen Centric Report

By: Sunil Chacko, Associate The Citizen Centric Report put out annually by the Advisory Committee highlights the USPTO’s performance for the previous year and its goals for the upcoming year. This year’s report focused on the USPTO initiatives to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the USPTO performance, and its management […]

June 23, 2021 | By S&H
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Court of Appeals For The Federal Circuit

IN RE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY

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 […]

April 28, 2021 | By S&H
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Court of Appeals For The Federal Circuit

Infinity Computer Products, Inc. v. Oki Data Americas, Inc – Arguing Your Way to Indefiniteness

In Infinity Computer Products, Inc. v. Oki Data Americas, Inc. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision to invalidate US Patent. No. 6,894,811 (‘811) and three other related patents due to indefiniteness. Patent 6,894,811: Patent ‘811 was directed to “using a fax machine […]

April 28, 2021 | By S&H
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Court of Appeals For The Federal Circuit

Amgen v. Sanofi and Regeneron – Enablement and the In re Wands Factors

On February 11, 2021, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) affirmed a district court’s judgment as a matter of law (“JMOL”) that Amgen’s asserted claims to binding affinity of antibodies were invalid for lack of enablement, holding that undue experimentation would be required to practice the […]

December 17, 2020 | By S&H
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court

Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.

In 2008, Google LLC (”Google”) released Android, ”an open-source platform designed to enable mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. The Android platform was built using the Java programming language developed by Sun Microsystems, which was later acquired by Oracle American, Inc. (”Oracle”). Prior to Oracle”™s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Google replicated the syntax and structure of the Java application programming interface (”API”) within the Android platform to ensure third-party developers could utilize the prewritten methods and declarations known within Java”™s API libraries. Google replicated ”37 Java API libraries that were determined by Google to be ”˜key to mobile devices,”™” which attributed to only 3% of the Android environment. Google independently wrote the remainder of the code to ”accommodate the unique challenges” of the mobile device environment. Upon its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle sued Google in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (”District Court”), alleging copyright infringement for the replicated code.


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