Sid Venkatesan

Sid Venkatesan is an intellectual property partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and editor of the NorCal IP Blog.

Sid Venkatesan

We enter 2016 with some mixed signals regarding the value of patents for technology companies. Many are preaching a death of patent rights and are questioning whether to invest in…

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Patent Reform Tries Again

8:00 pm PDT • September 13, 2015

Patent reform, long a decidedly unsexy topic best discussed over a strong espresso, has been a hot topic in recent years. Even though Congress substantially overhauled the patent system just…

Patent Reform Tries Again

Last summer, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International in which it directed lower courts to scrutinize computer-implemented abstract methods very closely.…

Software Patents Are Increasingly Coming Under Fire In Court