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Commission Guidance on Unfair Contract Terms
The EU Commission has published on July comprehensive guidance on the Unfair Contract Terms Directive (available here). The main purpose of this Guidance is to [...]
Patenting Software in Europe in July 2019
European Patent Office (EPO) has issued four new decisions relating to patenting software, read more. Bardehle has compiled interesting examples of software patenting at EPO.
Patenting Software in the U.S. does not reach to abstract ideas: Alice v CLS Bank
On June 19 2014 In Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank U.S. Supreme Court held that merely requiring a generic computer to implement an abstract idea [...]
Post Alice Federal Circuit decisions related to Patenting software in the US
Digitech Image Technologies, LLC v. Electronics For Imaging, Inc., Decided by the Federal Circuit July 11, 2014: Claim 1 recites: A device profile for describing properties [...]
Enforcing FOSS: XimpleWare vs. Versata, Ameriprise et. al.
XimpleWare sued Versata in November 2013, claiming Versata’s software, Distribution Channel Management, contains portions of XimpleWare’s copyrighted and patented source code licensed under the General [...]
Isolated DNA is not patent eligible in USA
On June 13, 2013, the US Supreme Court ruled in case AMP vs. Myriad that isolated genomic DNA is not patent-eligible, but cDNA is. Court [...]
Patenting DNA, the Myriad Case
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("CAFC") issued its' decision in the Myriad case related to patenting DNA and related methods on August 16, [...]
Does trademark give you right to domain name?
Sometimes it is not clearly understood how trademark may or may not help you to get a domain name. ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy provides [...]