Tag: Finnegan
Manufacturing Monetization: Due Diligence Before Licensing or Litigating Your Patent Portfolio
Licensing or litigating U.S. patents represents a significant investment for most manufacturing companies. Deciding which patents to assert can be complex, especially when your...
Prosecute to Protect, Litigate Without Regret: How Smart Patent Prosecution Decisions...
Patents, like statutes, are made of words. And the claims of a patent, like the words of a statute, define its scope—the invention/activities that...
The Patent Flywheel: Driving a Culture of Innovation
Technology is advancing at a blistering pace. It permeates every area of our modern lives – from the specially-formulated shampoo we use in the...
Patent Infringement: When Is a Product Sold “Within the United States”?
Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a), a patent is infringed when someone “without authority . . . offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within...
Drones and IP: Where and Why Are They Taking Off?
“When a company wants to start commercialising drone technology, the patent landscape can be thought of as a minefield.”
Drone technology has taken to the...
MassTLC’s 2023 Thought Leadership Series: Innovation
Innovation is the driving force behind progress and growth in all areas of technology, both big and small. It fuels change and helps society...
IP Issues Surrounding Machine Learning and AI in the Pharmaceutical Space
When it comes to protecting technical innovations there are two broad strategies: keep it a trade secret or obtain a patent. It has long...
Strategic Intellectual Property Considerations for Protecting AI Innovations in Life Sciences
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is all around us. It allows us to unlock our smartphones with just a glance. It can customise the temperature of...
Drive Your Company’s IP Strategy
Startups and small-to-medium-sized enterprises typically launch and grow their intellectual property rights organically. As with organic food, these rights end up being more expensive....
IP Issues With AI Code Generators
Automated content generation based on large language and image models, also known as generative artificial intelligence (AI), got public attention recently when an AI-generated...