Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute

IP attorneys may have relied solely on judgment and experience in the past when litigating cases, but in recent years they have other tools at their disposal.  One example is Lex Machina— a company that spun out of a Stanford University Law School and Computer Science Department project called the IP Litigation Clearinghouse (IPLC).  Founded [...]

A nice recognition for Michael Drapkin, one of the 2013 IP Institute speakers!  Drapkin, an intellectual property attorney with Holland & Hart, was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal by the Honorable Richard Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for his work forming the Colorado Intellectual Property (IP) American Inn of [...]

This post originally appeared here on July 10, 2012, and is reposted here with the author’s permission. I recently attended and spoke at the Rocky Mountain IP Institute in Denver.  It was the second year in a row I have attended and spoken at the Institute.  In my opinion, the Rocky Mountain IP Institute is [...]

This post focuses upon William Sloan Coates’ presentation on the status of divided patent infringement. This is an important issue for retailers facing patent troll suits because internet-based litigations routinely have joint and divided infringement issues where an end-user or vendor are required to complete each element of a claim.