by admin | Dec 30, 2020 | Articles, Volume 24
What are the benefits of means-plus-function claiming? Claims written this way allow the patentee to describe their invention in terms of a “step” or “means” for performing a specified function without limiting the patent scope to the specific...
by admin | Dec 30, 2020 | Articles, Volume 24
The 2017 decision by Justice Sir Colin Birss, which was upheld on appeal by Lord Sir David Kitchin and Lord Justices Sir Christopher David Floyd and Dame Sarah Jane Asplin in the matter of Unwired Planet v. Huawei, bears the potential to alter the Standard Essential...
by admin | Dec 30, 2020 | Articles, Volume 23
RensNo one entity is in charge of the Internet, yet it works. The functioning of the Internet is maintained by an amalgamation of technological architectures, standards (and standards bodies) and task specific institutions, that are referred to as the Internet...
by admin | Dec 30, 2020 | Articles, Volume 25
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in criminal justice has been understandably controversial. The recent application of these technologies in the form of risk-needs assessment tools and their potential future application as AI judges has...
by admin | Jan 5, 2019 | Articles, Volume 23
Employee covenants not to disclose and not to use confidential information without authorization are widely used to protect employer trade secrets and other confidential information. However, the covenants are not as routinely enforced as many believe. At a minimum,...
by admin | Jun 5, 2018 | Articles, Volume 22
Stealing music is legal again. On June 2, 2016, in VMG Salsoul, LLC v. Ciccone, the Ninth Circuit held that a sampled horn hit in Madonna’s “Vogue” was de minimis, infringing on neither the composition nor the recording of its source. The Ninth thus...
