The Mandatory Deposit Requirement of The Library of Congress: A Little Known and Little-Complied-With Law By Mark D. Hansing What is it? The United States Library of Congress says it has the largest collection of published works in the world. Housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, with warehouses elsewhere, estimates are on the order of 32 million catalogued books and other printed materials in 470 languages, and that many more […] Continue Reading →
Determining a “Joint Enterprise” in the Wake of Akamai’s Divided Infringement Standards By Blog Staff On December 19, 2017, the Federal Circuit released an opinion in Travel Sentry, Inc. v. Tropp, clarifying further the requirements for satisfying divided infringement, i.e. infringement involving multiple actors carrying out the claimed steps of a method patent where no single accused infringer has performed all the steps. The opinion stems from a series of […] Continue Reading →