This Week in Intellectual Property, August 12th
News and Commentary July's entry in EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" series is up! This particular stupid patent is owned by Anuwave LLC, and it covers technology that allows [...]
Is the Supreme Court’s Patentable Subject Matter Test Overly Ambiguous? An Empirical Test
In four cases handed down between 2010 and 2014, the Supreme Court articulated a new two-step patent eligibility test that drastically reduced the scope of patent protection for software inventions. [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, August 5th
Rent Check This blog post details the profits earned by 2019's top movies. The worldwide box office totals alone have earned the films (all owned by Disney) fantastical returns, demonstrating how [...]
Disney’s Unbelievably Sky-High Box Office Returns
Rents, in the economic sense, are above-normal profits that are usually attributed to some unfair market structure, often made possible through regressive regulations. In the case of copyright, there is [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 29th
News and Commentary Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee marked up the "No Combination Drug Patents Act", aimed at rolling back drug "evergreening." Drug companies will often tinker with already [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 22nd
News and Commentary James Stansel of PhRMA penned an opposing view in USA Today on the importance of patents to the pharmaceutical industry. It's rather uninspired, and only goes through [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 15th
Rent Check The figures the Trump Administration is relying on when calculating the costs of Chinese IP "theft" are based on some fuzzy math, even when the administration can cite [...]
Bad Math on Chinese IP Theft is Used to Justify Trade War
The current trade war is based on a number of fundamental misunderstandings about the positive-sum nature of international trade and the costs of protectionism. In one relatively minor but characteristically [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 8th
Rent Check Trade secrets are an alternative to patenting, but they come at the cost of the various protections that the government gives to patent holders. Or perhaps not. Jeanne [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 1st
News and Commentary Kerry Maeve Sheehan of the Author's Alliance has a post detailing the problems with the CASE Act, which would create a small-claims court for copyright claims. While [...]