Coleman & Horowitt, LLP Legal Blog

  President Trump’s new head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, recently noted that uncertainty about what kinds of innovation are patent-eligible is weakening investment, growth, and jobs in high tech industries: I do worry that the current state of Section 101 in patentable subject matter weakens the robustness of our IP system in the affected…

The Central Valley is not just the agricultural center of California (and the country), and a great place to live and raise a family.  It is starting to become a center for tech.  It was recently highlighted as a place for VCs to consider investing in “Why You Should Invest in Fresno and the Central Valley” in Venture Beat.  Check…

A Crested Macaque named Naruto was just doing his thing on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia in 2011 when he came across an unattended camera.  Though he was only six or seven years old at the time, he decided to do his best Millenial impression and takes some selfies.   Shortly thereafter, the wildlife photographer who left the camera unattended,…

Today the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Oil States Energy Services, Inc. v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC.  The Court determined that patents are “public rights” subject to evisceration by political appointees. The importance of the decision to innovators is described in the first paragraph of Justice Gorsuch’s dissent (joined by Chief Justice Roberts): As readers of this blog…

There are plenty of “gotchas” that inventors face.  We will list some of these in a future post, but this alone should be enough:  Simply leaving out a line in the patent application wiped out a patent that E*Trade was allegedly infringing.  There will never be a trial on the merits because the lawyers made one mistake that invalidated the…