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End of Season Apple Sale: Intellectual Property Analysis of Apple, Inc. Patent-Related Rulings

Apple has conveniently decided to pop back into the news – and just in time for the holidays! No, we’re not talking about the coverage of Apple’s less-than-stellar Black Friday/Cyber-Monday deals. (Honestly, who can blame them for wanting to save money, since they’re funding over 20 lawsuits around the world – and that’s just with Samsung.) We’re also not talking about the U.S.

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The Artful [Securities Law] Dodger: Intellectual Property Analysis of Universal Display Corp.

With Thanksgiving feasts fully digested, fueling the shopping frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we are thankfully lighter of over $50 billion in unwanted cash that was weighing us down. And here at M·CAM, we’re in the process of donning our kerchiefs, caps and settling into the languorous, hot-chocolate aided stupor that precedes the last holiday rush of the year. Time to crack open a nostalgic tale of Dickens’ Christmas Carol….

But wait, this isn’t the Christmas Carol! No, it’s Oliver Twist.

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The Scouts are Out: Intellectual Property Analysis of Helferich Patent Licensing, LLC v. CBS Corporation

Though they’re a continually growing nuisance in the technology sector, patent trolls are always testing the waters of new markets, and are especially drawn to patent-deficient ones. Consequently, patent trolls have been venturing into the field of big media, asserting their characteristically vague technology patents against news outlets like the New York Times, Bloomberg, and CBS – all of which seem relatively “patent-less” when compared to their patent hoarding counterparts in the technology world.

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A Wild Groupon Appears: Intellectual Property Analysis of Mobile Commerce Framework v Groupon

Every so often, an unsuspecting company becomes ensnared in the patent world, sometimes unwittingly. Like a saber tooth tiger blissfully wandering into the La Brea tar pits, its inaugural foray into this ferocious world can lead to becoming lunch or, in some cases, infect them to become perpetrators downstream. Fresh from Groupon’s IPO, the fangs are coming out… and there’s more fangs than mouths – but we’ll get to that a bit later on.

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Knowledge Tariff in Asia – A Letter to Korea, Taiwan and Japan

While we here at M·CAM often try to see the lighter side of intellectual property issues when we perform our Patently Obvious® analyses, when as much as twenty percent of an entire country’s GDP is being exploited, we take it very seriously. The tone of this Patently Obvious® report reflects that fact.

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Two Bites at the Apple? Intellectual Property Analysis of Apple Inc’s “Slide-to-Unlock” Patents

Why "two bites"? Because it's a reference to double patenting, an illegal abuse of the patent system. You know, what USPTO patent examiner, Mr. Andres Gutierrez said of Apple's latest slide-to-unlock patent, before he rejected EVERY claim Apple was applying for, THREE separate times, in this issued continuation (read: we want to get credit for an earlier patent's priority date) of ANOTHER slide-to-unlock patent.

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