Mr. Schulman, 48, is a consultant on software technology litigation in Santa Rosa.
But the court is also "sending out a very strong signal" that it supports DNA patents and that they are enforceable, says Jonathan Radcliffe, an attorney who handles drug, biotech, and other technology litigation at the London-based firm Nabarro LLP.
Law firms that geared up for Year 2000 advice and a projected wave of damage lawsuits have used the expertise they gained to expand their work in electronic commerce, technology patent litigation and other areas once viewed as exotic.
The story's protagonists engage the reader only fitfully; passages on aviation technology and litigation maneuvers go on too long; the potted cold war history meant to provide context has a textbook quality; and the book's structure, built around a recent effort to reopen the case, sometimes feels breathless and artificial.
The Proxim Corporation, a wireless-networking equipment maker, has agreed to pay $22.75 million and additional royalties to its rival Symbol Technologies to end all litigation over wireless technology.
Often, engineers, with technical solutions in hand, delay implementation of new technologies until either litigation or legislation forces implementation, and a major excuse cited for preventing the implementation of available advanced technology is "lack of funding".
After years of annoying patent litigation, Tessera Technologies, a miniaturization technology company, announced on Monday that it has come to an agreement with archrival Motorola.
In each case the litigation abated, technology survived, often improved, and lives were made richer.
ANN BEESON New York, May 6 ,2002 The writer is litigation director, Technology and Liberty Program, American Civil Liberties Union.
Once L.& H. collapsed, they had held out hope that they might get their technology back — either through litigation or through the bankruptcy auction.
Much of his and his estate's wealth stemmed from the "machine vision" and bar-code technology that, after extensive litigation, was licensed to more than 900 companies for more than $1 billion.
