Seventy-year-old Richard L. Ditzik, owner of NetAirus Technologies LLC, takes Apple Inc. to trial over a patent that covers a popular smartphone feature, the cellular network. Apple Inc. argues that since Ditzik’s original patent was changed to include technology that Ditzik did not discover until after filing the application, the…

An Asian-American rock band, “The Slants,” is preparing to take their fight to patent their name to the federal circuit court, after already having been denied for the past four years on the grounds that the group name is ostensibly a disparaging racial slur. The Slants argue that the term…

In a unanimous ruling on June 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court held that human genes are not patentable…or at least not natural human genes. Although all nine Justices said that naturally occurring isolated biological material is not patentable, their ruling was still a compromise by allowing for the possibility…

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced last June their decision to expand internet domain space through the new generic Top-Level Domain (new gTLD) program. The program will allow for potential domain owners to create their own top level internet domain name which constitutes the “.com” part…

Should researchers and scientists be able to claim human DNA as their intellectual property? That is the question the U.S. Supreme Court must now decide after hearing oral arguments yesterday. Robert Barnes of the Washington Post reported that the Justices expressed trepidation as they listened to the parties’ explanations of…