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Intellectual Property

Jan. 1, 2013

Smartphone wars dominate the IP legal landscape in 2012

Patent and copyright battles between major California-based technology companies, such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc., dominated the intellectual property legal landscape in 2012.


By Rachel Swan


Daily Journal Staff Writer


In a year that featured the ongoing impact of a patent reform law passed the year before, with more to come in 2013, the intellectual property legal landscape was dominated by smartphone skirmishes between technology giants.


Meanwhile, patent attorneys in Silicon Valley will get a long-sought satellite of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in their own back yard. The July announcement was followed by...

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