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Pitfalls in licensing litigation
17-09-2019
Covering as many bases as you can is essential for both parties when drafting a license agreement. If and when disputes arise, you want to avoid as many pitfalls as possible to avoid litigation, and failing that, an unfavorable outcome.
A lot of the time, these situations can be avoided early on, with special attention paid to specific wording, how future partnerships with other companies could confuse the rights granted under an agreement, and even the choice of courts for dispute resolution included in these agreements.
We invited Andrew Radsch and Megan Baca, partners at Ropes & Gray to host a
The doâs and donâts of patenting AI
10-03-2021
10-12-2020
AI is a key driver in the fourth industrial revolution, but right now the patentability of many AI systems and projects remains nebulous.
Typically, AI processes are treated as a computer program or mathematical method and, at the European Patent Office (EPO), fall outside the realms of patentability. But when you use AI to solve a technical or real-world problem, things change.
This nuance was one of many tips shared at a
WIPR Patents Live session held yesterday, March 9, which explored how AI innovators can ensure that their technology is patentable.
The âthen and nowâ of PTAB
24-02-2021
17-11-2020
After the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) was first formed in 2012, it soon gained a reputation as the ‘patent killer’ for knocking out patents via
inter partes review (IPR).
Now, nearly a decade later, a
WIPR Patents Live panel discussed how the board has changed and what patent practitioners may expect to see in future.
WIPR’s group publisher Peter Scott sat down with Oblon partners Lisa Mandrusiak and Christopher Ricciuti and Finnegan partner Trenton Ward to discuss, in particular, last year’s key developments and how these should influence an IPR filing.