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Intellectual Property Litigation: Naked Licensing, Anticircumvention, Effect of ‘Bilski’ Decision
January 18, 2011
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Litigation partner Lew Clayton's Intellectual Property Litigation column appeared in the January 12 issue of the New York Law Journal. The article discusses two recent Federal Circuit opinions that consider the difficult issue of defining patentable subject matter under section 101 of the Patent Act. The article also discusses recent copyright, trademark and patent cases, including a Ninth Circuit decision recognizing a new anticircumvention right under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Litigation associate Julia Derish assisted in the preparation of this column.