Using the Doctrine of Equivalents to Determine Infringement
March 4, 2019“If two devices do the same work in substantially the same way, and accomplish substantially the same result, they are the same, even though they differ in name, form, or shape.” This excerpt from a 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co.) defines the essen…
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Can Employees’ Social Media Contacts be Considered Company Trade Secrets?
January 23, 2019While it has been established by many courts that a customer list may constitute a protectable trade secret, the question of whether a former employee’s maintenance of social media contacts constitutes misappropriation of trade secrets is a relatively new question that has come before the courts in the past few y…
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How to Challenge the Validity of a Patent
January 21, 2019Created by the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2012, a post grant review is a process for questioning the validity of a patent recently issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). It was created to make the patent validity challenge proceed more quickly than previous methods and is handled by the Patent Tr…
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