IP Update

Patent Standards and Investment in Alternative Energy

February 29, 2008

Eric Raciti, a member of Finnegan's Alternative Energy practice, discusses the KSR case and highlight the major concerns of prosecuting patents in the alternative energy market.

The recent U.S. Supreme Court case KSR International, Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., arguably one of the most important patent cases in years, raised the bar for obtaining patents on new products that rely on new combinations of existing, publicly known elements. For the emerging alternative energy market, the KSR decision has come at a potentially inopportune time, when patents and innovation are more prized than ever by investors.

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