Recent Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision established a potentially lucrative payday for plaintiffs in false patent marking cases
by: Robert J. Kriss, Jeffrey W. Sarles, and Richard M. Assmus
History may record 2010 as "the year of the false patent marking suit." In just the past week alone, a single plaintiff has filed more than 20 separate false marking lawsuits in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and scores
A “Driver's License” Patent
by: Harold C. Wegner
The emerging nineteenth century German nation state pioneered not only the most important patent examination system of the world outside North America but also in 1891 introduced the Gebrauchsmuster, literally, a “utility model”, but which has been p
