Intellectual Property Expert Group
Intellectual Property Expert Group
How Nokia’s smartphone software strategy failed and ultimately killed the brand. Much has been written about the ups and downs of the cellular / mobile phone industry over the past 25 years, and particularly the smartphone industry in more recent…
It was widely reported yesterday that AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) on Monday agreed to sell more than 800 patents and related products to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) for $1.056 billion. It was also written that the struggling online services provider was under…
The United States Supreme Court’s recent grant of certiorari in Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. raises the issue of whether patent law requires clear and convincing evidence of invalidity to invalidate a patent. The clear and convincing evidence standard of…
We blogged earlier on the 12 may 2010 G3/08 opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) on the referral of 22 October 2008 by the President of the EPO on the patentability of Computer…