In 2010, U.S. companies obtained 50.3% of granted patents, compared with 49% in 2009.High-tech patents also dominated areas with the heaviest new patenting activity:Multiplex Communications (US class 370) -- 3.3% of totalSolid-State Devices and Transistors (US class 257) -- 3.1%Semiconductors (US class 438) -- 2.7%Drug Compositions (US class 514) -- 2.1%  Data Processing and File Management (US class 707) -- 2%Computers and Processing Systems (US class 709) -- 2%… [read post]

Although no rule or statute prohibits side switching, state and federal courts have exercised what they have called an inherent power to supervise and control ethical breaches by lawyers and expert witnesses.[1] The Wang Test Although certainly not the first case on side-switching, the decision of a federal trial court, in Wang Laboratories, Inc. v Toshiba Corp., has become a key precedent on disqualification of expert witnesses.[2] The test spelled out in the Wang case… [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included:Forbes interview with M Meurer (co author of ‘Patent Failure’): (Patent Prospector), (IPBiz), (IPBiz), (IPBiz), (IAM), (Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property), (Patent Prospector),Rambus – Rambus stock soars following jury’s dismissal of antitrust and fraud charges from Hynix, Micron, and Nanya… [read post]