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Beyond the Alice Event Horizon: the spaghettification of software patenting

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon April 9, 2016March 13, 2022in CLS v Alice, intellectual property, Inventors, IP, IP law, les, licensing, licensing executives society, litigation, software patent, Supreme Court Rulings, Uncategorized

For anyone interested in learning more about the state of affairs for software patents now two years after the Supreme Court Alice decision, I am giving a free webinar this Thursday, April 13, 2016, at 1 PM EST USA on…

Ray Van Dyke teaching a Class on Patent Law

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon November 23, 2015March 13, 2022in Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, intellectual property, Inventors, IP, IP law, les, licensing, licensing executives society, litigation, patent damages, philosophy, Supreme Court Rulings, thomas jefferson, trade secret, Uncategorized

As noted, as Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Section for the Bar Association of Montgomery County (BAMC), I am pleased to report that the IP Section is having a continuing series of presentations on the fundamentals of intellectual property law at…

Dale Lazar Speaks of Alice and 101 Challenges to DC LES CHAPTER

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon November 16, 2015March 13, 2022in Congress, intellectual property, Inventors, IP, IP law, les, licensing, licensing executives society, patent, patent damages, Supreme Court Rulings

As noted earlier, I wrote a blog piece on the Alice decision, Alice Doesn't Patent Here Anymore, http://rayvandyke.com/posts/. Thanks to those who read it.. On November 18, 2015 in Washington, DC, the Licensing Executives Society (www.les.org) is again having prominent IP attorney…

Ray Van Dyke Teaches Intellectual Property Basics in Rockville, Maryland November 11, 2015

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon November 2, 2015March 13, 2022in antitrust, Copyright, Infringement, intellectual property, Inventors, IP, IP law, litigation, trade secret

As Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Section for the Bar Association of Montgomery County (BAMC), I am pleased to report that the IP Section is having a series of presentations on the fundamentals of intellectual property law at the Bar headquarters in…

Alice Doesn't Patent Here Anymore

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon September 9, 2015March 13, 2022in intellectual property, Inventors, licensing, Supreme Court Rulings

The U.S. Supreme Court's Alice decision and the Patent Office's draconian rule making implementing that case have had and are having a devastating effect on software-implemented innovation in America - even though Justice Thomas made no mention of software in…

To Kill a Patent System: What Would Atticus Finch Do?

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon March 13, 2015March 13, 2022in Copyright, Infringement, intellectual property, Inventors, les, licensing, licensing executives society, Supreme Court Rulings

Last Wednesday I had the privilege to speak about the importance of Intellectual Property in Washington, DC. As Chair of the Greater Washington, DC Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society, I and a friend, Sanjay Prasad, conducted the Introduction to…

Ray Van Dyke Teaches Course on Intellectual Property at SMU

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon January 6, 2015March 13, 2022in antitrust, Benjamin Franklin, Copyright, George Washington, Infringement, intellectual property, intelletual property, Inventors, licensing, licensing executives society, patent, philosophy, Supreme Court Rulings, thomas jefferson, trade secret, trademark

Next week at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, I reprise my course on intellectual property. Excerpts from the course description are set forth below and available online at http://lyle.smu.edu/~matula/IPIT/ Dr. David Matula and I have taught the class since…

IP in 2014: The Good, the Bad and the Idiotic

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon December 12, 2014March 13, 2022in intelletual property, update

For those in the Washington, DC area, I am giving a talk at INCA (http://www.dcinventors.org/) next Monday evening. INCA, which stands for the Inventors Network of the Capital Area, is a nonprofit educational organization whose members are interested in patents, the innovation…

Software Patents Shrugged

Posted by Raymond Van Dykeon June 16, 2013March 13, 2022in Supreme Court Rulings

In the latest film installment of Ayn Rand's influential novel, Atlas Shrugged, the government has taken the drastic step of seizing all patents, as well as copyrights, for the public good, under the so-called Fair Share Act. Although the U.S.…