White House urges restrictions on non-compete agreements This week the Obama administration issued a “call to action” statement in which it urged state governments to restrict many of the non-compete agreements that employers often impose on…
Will your patent assignment document satisfy new European Patent Office requirements? Effective November 1, 2016, new European Patent Office (EPO) Examination Guidelines governing the transfer of European patent applications will take effect. The new Guidelines make two changes that transacting…
Federal Circuit invalidates three software patents; Judge Mayer calls for ban on all software patents In the past few months, the Federal Circuit reversed a two-year trend of overturning software patents by publishing three decisions that outlined…