News sources reported this month that the Irish data protection authority (DPA) had sent Facebook a preliminary order that would prohibit the transfer of information about European Union (EU) residents to US Facebook users....more
10/5/2020
/ Binding Corporate Rules ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Protection Authority ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ,
Facebook ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
Popular ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
In October 2019, a Federal Circuit panel concluded that the status of Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) violated the Appointments...more
5/6/2020
/ Administrative Patent Judges ,
America Invents Act ,
Appeals ,
Appointments Clause ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Denial of Rehearing ,
Final Written Decisions ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Judicial Appointments ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Precedential Opinion ,
Principle Officers ,
Severability Doctrine ,
USPTO
Before enactment of the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2011, it was understood that an inventor’s secret commercialization of an invention through sale or use can operate like prior art against that inventor’s subsequent patent...more
4/10/2019
/ America Invents Act ,
Confidentiality Agreements ,
Helsinn Healthcare SA v Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc ,
Inventions ,
On-Sale Bar ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Reaffirmation ,
Reversal ,
SCOTUS ,
Third-Party Relationships