Business method patents

Financial Services, Patent Experts Seek More Certainty On Business-Method Patents, Bilski Case

NEW YORK - Patent lawyers from financial services companies and other firms this week said they are hopeful that change at the US Patent and Trademark Office will bring solutions to their concerns with the business method patents, application backlogs, patent quality problems and other issues. Read More…
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The Whizz of Electrons and the Wisdom of Elders: Linking Traditional Knowledge and

The Whizz of Electrons and the Wisdom of Elders: Linking Traditional Knowledge and Western Science

Ameyali Ramos Castillo, UNU IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative

With pressing environmental challenges like climate change and increasing socio-economic complexities, the relationship between traditional knowledge (TK) and science is not receiving considerable attention. At the forefront of innovation are numerous research initiatives that link TK and western science...

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Life-Saving Mosquito Nets Subject Of Tiff Over Trade Secrets

COPENHAGEN - While sales of insecticide-treated bed nets have skyrocketed in recent years and boosting their use is among the UN Millennium Development Goals, two producers of the nets have been caught in a rigorous legal case involving trade secrets. Now the English High Court has ruled that one of the companies, Bestnet, has misused the trade secrets of the other company, Vestergaard Frandsen (VF).
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New Publications by MIPLC Alumni and Staff (II)

Kelvin W. Willoughby, “How Much Does Technology Really Matter in Patent Law? A Comparative Analysis of Doctrines of Appropriate Patentable Subject Matter in American and European Patent Law,” Federal Circuit Bar Journal, 18, 1 (2008), 63-138.


Kelvin W. Willoughby, “How do entrepreneurial technology firms really get financed, and what difference does it make?” International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, 5, 1 (2008), 1-28.