Monthly Archives: February 2014

Medtronic v. Mirkowski Case Study

I strive to use this blog to talk about topics of professional interest to me. When I can’t find local topics, I look to broader issues with mostly settled statements of fact like Supreme Court decisions. From time to time … Continue reading

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Week in IP: February 2 – 8, 2014

In the last article, I mentioned that Twitter had bought patents from IBM after IBM threatened them with patent infringement; Google and Cisco signed a cross-licensing agreement too. Last week had other intellectual property stories to review, like how in … Continue reading

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Thoughts on the Twitter IBM Conflict

Last week I talked about the contract dispute Hewlett-Packard and Oracle had in Santa Clara County. That was old news about old tech companies in the area. I could also be writing about the newer and hipper companies like Twitter … Continue reading

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Week in IP: Week of January 26, 2014

In an attempt to publish the aggregation I catch up with Twitter, here are stories in intellectual property for the week of January 26. I don’t have much to show for pictures of the stories, so see the new logo … Continue reading

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