On June 21, 2023, a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware found Google liable for patent infringement and ordered the company to pay Personal Audio, LLC $15.1 million in damages. LONDON – International IP agency Mewburn Ellis has launched a mini-report that examines the tendencies within the operation and use of the UK IPO’s Green Channel program. The UK’s IPO Green Channel allows patent candidates to accelerate the processing of patent applications… At first look, the patent system could seem like a peculiar exception inside the context of a free-market economic system. After all, patents confer monopolistic rights — something that is normally anathema in free-market ideology.
The “doctrine of precedent”, or stare decisis (Latin for “to face by selections”) means that choices by greater courts bind lower courts to guarantee that related circumstances reach similar outcomes. In distinction, in civil law systems, legislative …
