Supreme Court
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What We Don’t Know in Warhol – Who the Infringer Is and By Doing What
I expect to see a lot of reports that the recent Supreme Court decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith held that Andy Warhol’s Prince series of 16 works, or at least the “Orange Prince” that was licensed to Condé Nast, is an infringement of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph. In fact, […] Continue reading
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Important New Patent Ownership Decision!
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Sys., Inc. In an important new decision, the Supreme Court held that Congress did not change one of the fundamental precepts of patent law – that the individual inventor is the original owner of invention – obliquely, through an ambiguous definition of “subject […] Continue reading
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The Supreme Court and Ownership of Patents
The Supreme Court recently granted certiorari to decide a question of patent ownership. The case is Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. and involves interpretation of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1990. The Bayh-Dole Act discusses, in the case of federally-funded research, the relative rights of patent ownership […] Continue reading
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