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At one time, U.S. patent laws only applied to activities in the United States. Then in 1972, Congress passed 35 U.S.C. 271(f) to keep companies from shipping components abroad for assembly in order to avoid patent claims, Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Nixon Peabody, told the E-Commerce Times...

In the software industry, where developments change so quickly, re-examination requests are a common occurrence, noted Washington technology lawyer Raymond Van Dyke. "It's nobody's fault," he said, "they're just growing pains." In cases like this, the burden is on the challeng...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed down a decision that affects the value of licenses for patents ...

"The Metabolite case raised issues concerning the eligibility for patenting. [In other words] are patents on software, business methodologies and some other innovations permissible? The Supreme Court found a procedural flaw and that precise issue was not decided but some Justices opined nonetheless," Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Nixon Peabody, told the E-Commerce Times...

"I think the difference between 2006 and earlieryears is that a lot of these cases have been verypublic," Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with NixonPeabody, told the E-Commerce Times "Although 2007 promises excitement in the patentarena, 2006 showed a lot of drama with industrialt...

Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices heard arguments concerning a basic tenet of patent law. In addition to being new, any invention for patent must be deemed "nonobvious" over what is already known; i.e., the innovation must represent some technological advance -- even if slight ...

Last week's dismissal of the Metabolite case by the Supreme Court was a welcome relief to the intellectual property (IP) community, seemingly besieged with Supreme Court cases, eBay-inspired injunctive denials, patent reforms, Congressional pressures, the Blackberry brouhaha, and other challenges to the patent system this year ...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of eBay in a longstanding patent dispute withMercExchange. In particular, the Court reversed the appeals court's interpretation regarding the granting of an injunction in a patent infringement suit ...

As the recent BlackBerry case focused the world's eyes on the arcane field of patents, I was reminded of the 1999 Amazon.com "one click" case, which caused so many to condemn the U.S. patent system.At that time, critics called the system "broken" and a "disincentive to innovation." Now, the system is under attack again, merely because our BlackBerries were threatened...

I admit it, I've got a problem ...

The US Mode queues up messages differently, thus working around the technology at the heart of the pending litigation, which NTB claims it patented, explained Raymond Van Dyke, a Washington, D.C.-based partner in the Nixon Peabody law firm Success Unclear...