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  • n  that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing patents
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  • Apple hit with new patent lawsuit, this one for call forwarding
    Another day, another patent lawsuit. Earlier this week, Apple was served with a lawsuit from a Texas-based company called Bluebonnet Telecommunications which alleges that the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 include a call-forwarding feature that infringes upon a patent of theirs which covers a "method and apparatus for determining the telephony features assigned to a telephone." The patent in question ...
    June 20, 2013 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
  • An Honest, Law-Abiding Patent Troll?
    Given the inanity that is our current patent system , it's not surprising that innocent patent holders can look like trolls. Such might well be the case with SightSound Technologies, a subsidiary of General Electric, which has spent years in patent lawsuits with Apple, CDNow, Bertelsmann, Napster and others. As SightSound's CEO Scott Sander argues in a letter to The Wall Street Journal editor ...
    June 19, 2013 - ReadWriteWeb
  • High Court Sides With Regulators In Drug Patent Case
    The Supreme Court sided with government regulators in an important case involving the pharmaceutical industry and patent law. At issue were contracts between "brand-name" pharmaceutical companies and "generic" producers in which the brand-name company paid the generic not to compete. The court said the Federal Trade Commission could challenge such contracts.
    June 19, 2013 - NPR

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