Assignment

1. Find a URL for a patent violation case that was contested appeared in the last 5 years where a penalty was assessed.

• What is the URL?
• What was the point of contention? Briefly
• What was the penalty?

2. Find a URL for a patent case where the patent was found to be invalid.

• What is the URL?
• What was the point of contention? Briefly
• Why was the patent declared invalid?

3. We talked about the 4 factors in determining fair use. Find a case in the last 5 years where copying a program, for commercial use, was ruled fair use

• What is the URL?
• Describe which of the four factors was used in the justification.