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TiVo Wins Patent Suit

TiVo hasn’t always been profitable, but today the company stands to make a small fortune after winning its patent suit against the Dish Network Corp over technology used in its remote controls. The decision would net TiVo about $300 million from Dish (about $100 million in damages and interest, and the rest in contempt sanctions).
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Protection for Genetically Modified Organisms

If a patent holder has the right to stop someone who “[m]akes, uses, offers to sell, or sells”1 her product, what happens when her product runs away and starts making itself?
In 1980, the Supreme Court of the United States contemplated in Diamond v. Chakrabarty2 whether genetically modified organisms (GMOs) constitute patentable subject matter under 35 [...]

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Fordham International Intellectual Property Conference, Patent Panel: Injunctive Relief

[Moderator: Gonzalo Ulloa y Suelves]
[Speakers/Panelists: Prof. Johm M. Golden, Edward Nodder, Felix Rodiger, George Badenoch, Hon. Justice Floyd, Marleen van der Horst]
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[5:25] John Golden: Opening it up by surveying the current state of injunctive relief in US patent law.
Problems with patent rights: Costs to eliminating the rebuttable presumption of irreparable [...]

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Is the Hatch-Waxman Act Immune from Encompassing Generic Biologics?

by Elysa Brooke Goldberg, Ph.D.
Proteins are essential parts within every organism, engaging in every regulated process within our cells. Each protein has a highly specific function within the cell; as such, each protein is required to perform its intended job perfectly. When a protein fails at performing its function, the individual cell [...]

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