Tagged: patent law

New U.S. Patent Boss

President Obama will nominate IBM’s David Kappos as director of the Patent and Trademark Office and under secretary of Commerce for intellectual property.  School of Law Professor Michael Meurer, an authority on patent law, says the appointment is a good sign “for those of us who hope the patent system can be reformed to better […]

High Court to rule on biz-method patents

Making software makers and biotech firms nervous, the Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal of a case in which a lower court significantly narrowed the processes eligible for patent protection (denying patents, for example, for a method of hedging commodity sales risks).  School of Law Professor Michael Meurer, an authority on patent law, […]