Patent & IP news for February 22, 2014

Webinar on Trade Secret vs. Patent Protection After AIA from www.patentdocs.org

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Trade Secret vs. Patent Protection After AIA: Making the Choice -- Understanding AIA's Impact on Trade Secrets, Evaluating the Protection Options, Weighing the Benefits and Risks" on ...

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Apple, Samsung confirm failure of settlement effort in early February but keep talking from www.fosspatents.com

In January, Apple and Samsung informed Judge Lucy Koh, the federal district judge presiding over two patent infringement cases between them in the Northern District of California, that they were going to have settlement talks ...

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Lighting Ballast: Deference Would Have Only Masked the Problems from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch In Lighting Ballast, the en banc Federal Circuit once again held that claim construction should be seen as a question of law that is reviewed de novo on appeal. In the end ...

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