Patents — Topics

The Precarious Issue of Legally Creating Mashups Under the U.S. Patent System

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 24, 2025

Trump’s Shortsighted Proposal Would Shatter the Patent System

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 17, 2025

Only Humans Are Allowed: Federal Circuit Says No to “AI Inventors”

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 26, 2022

I Think, Therefore I Am: The Battle for Intellectual Property Rights With Artificial Intelligence

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 17, 2022

Inventions Ex Machina, Patents Dantur Hominibus

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 22, 2021

Quantum Computing: Ready to Be Patented!

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 11, 2021

Intellectual Property in Crisis: Does SARS-CoV-2 Warrant Waiving TRIPS?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 21, 2021

When Is an Invention Disclosure or Patent Application a Trade Secret?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, May 26, 2020

Orange Book, Purple Book, Complex Products, and Process Patents

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, December 23, 2019

Information Sharing: Tesla and the Open Patent Framework

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 23, 2019

TERMINAL DISCLAIMERS: QUICK FIX or SIMPLE RUIN?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 12, 2019

New Year, New Chinese Intellectual Property System

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 31, 2019

Artificial Intelligence as Inventors: Who or What Should Get the Patent?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 5, 2018

Tribal Sovereign Immunity May Shield Pharmaceutical Patent Owner From PTAB Inter Partes Review

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 15, 2017

Invisible Cryptography: Should Quantum Communications Be Subjected to Legal Restraint?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 23, 2017

U of M Asserts Sovereign Immunity Prevents USPTO From Invalidating Its Patents

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, July 11, 2017

A New Year! a New You!: Update Your Look on Regenerative Healing Law

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, January 2, 2017

EmDrives: The End of Newtonian Physics?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 25, 2016

Solving the “Patent Troll” Problem

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 21, 2016

Halo Electronics v. Pulse Electronics: More Discretion of District Courts in Granting Enhanced Damages

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 25, 2016

Patent Damages

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, January 20, 2016

The “Patent Dance” for Now: Rehearing Denied in Amgen v. Sandoz

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 9, 2015

Apple Loses Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 20, 2015

Akamai Techs. v. Limelight Networks: An Expansion of the Scope of Patent Direct Infringement

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 13, 2015

Inter Partes Review: A Questionable Item in the Generic’s Tool Kit

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 6, 2015

The BPCIA Patent Dance: A Patent Law Cliffhanger

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 5, 2015

Revisiting the Idea of a Patent Small Claims Court

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 24, 2015

Open Patenting, Innovation, and the Release of the Tesla Patents

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 11, 2014

How Far is Too Far?: Some Patents Border on the Absurd

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, May 16, 2014

Alice Corporation: Is Software That Implements an Abstract Idea Patentable?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, April 10, 2014

Why Antitrust Must Play a Role in Analyzing Drug Patent Settlements

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, March 28, 2014

Athletic Performance Heavyweights on Verge of Patent Battle

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 16, 2014

Akamai Provides a New Induced Infringement Standard, but How Do We Use It?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 3, 2014

Akamai Provides a New Induced Infringement Standard, but How Do We Use It?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 3, 2014

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Fighting Patent Trolls With Fee-Shifting

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, November 1, 2013

Open-Source Biotechnology: Failed to Take Root or Waiting in the Wings?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 14, 2013

Myriad Genetics: A Look at Recent Developments in Patent Law and the Human Genome

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 14, 2013

Will AIA Post-Grant Procedures Reduce Litigation?

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, May 8, 2013

And the Patent Goes to…… the First to File

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, February 19, 2013

Apple & Samsung Litigation Shows Need for Patent Reform

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, December 3, 2012

Apple & Samsung Litigation Shows Need for Patent Reform

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, December 3, 2012

Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For Your Patent . . .

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, October 26, 2012

The Written Description Requirement Strikes Back

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, September 12, 2012