The Claim Game

IEOR 190G has been very supplemental to my undergraduate career and professional interests. I'm a Molecular Biology and Legal Studies double major who was introduced to patents in the context of economic access to medicines. Throughout this semester I've actually been working on a senior thesis on "Patenting Hematopoietic Stem Cell Technologies: Implications for Follow-On Innovation". This project

Throughout this course we have used social media as the basis of our assignments and learning. Rather than pure lecture, we learned from each other through blog posts, comments, youtube videos, and tweets. This is the first student-to-student interaction has been central to a course for me, let alone social media. I think that this is a very

Microsoft sued Motorola for violating a licensing agreement (reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing agreement). Microsoft was a third party beneficiary of this agreement.  While this litigation was going on in the U.S., Motorola claimed that Microsoft infringed upon its patents in Germany. A German district court ended up granting Motorola an injunction against Microsoft's production of products that infringed

WARF sued Apple for patent infringement on microprocessor technology patent for $400M. The patent protected claims regarding processor chip design that improved microprocessor performance. WARF claimed that this patent was infringed upon by Apple's A7 processors for its iphone 5s and ipad. A jury in Madison found that Apple did indeed infringe upon the patent, determining that it