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By: Gene M. Garner II, Partner On May 4, 2021, oral arguments were heard by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) relating to whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) could use statements made in an […]
June 23, 2021 | By S&H
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Court of Appeals For The Federal Circuit
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 […]
June 23, 2021 | By Richard A. Gollhofer
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
Google v. Oracle– Take 2
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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April 29, 2021 | By Richard A. Gollhofer
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court Says Google Can Use Java API
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 […]