On Presidents Day, it is my pleasure to share with you the Beem Presidential Patent collection. The collection comprises historic original patents and an original copyright,
Let’s say you own a business that makes something, whether it’s a software product or a hardware device. Your success depends on filling your customers’ needs better than anyone else.
There is an international crisis in software patents. The critical, unanswered question is this: When are software inventions eligible for patent?Billions in corporate assets are
On April 25, 1961, Robert Noyce, then of Fairchild, was issued U.S. Patent 2,981,877 for the first silicon-based integrated circuit.
In the last inning of the Apple-Samsung game of smartphone hardball, Samsung slid into home. Apple failed to make the tag. “Samsung is safe!” cried the umpires.
This morning Cordell Parvin published a blog about what we as lawyers can learn from his hero John Wooden of UCLA basketball coaching fame.
Let’s consider three inventors who asserted patents against big companies and won. What does it take for a patent owner to succeed?
It is a wonderful experience to serve as law clerk to a judge. It’s fun to meet other law clerks, judges, and members of the bar.
Patent law promotes the progress of technology by rewarding inventors who patent their inventions. From the beginning,
This morning, my fellow leaders of the Chicago Intellectual Property Law Association (IPLAC) and I met with Michelle K. Lee, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
