www.fenwick.com When a patent practitioner reads an article calling on engineers to stage a patent strike within their organizations, alarm is the natural reaction. For inhouse counsel, such articles and sentiments (which I have found to be rather prevalent) make filing patents a tough sell to engineers. The following are some tips for in-house counsel to encourage engineers to engage in the pa...

In this paper, we develop a formal framework for analysing the flow of information and knowledge through social networks. Specifically, we propose a multi-agent epistemic logic in which we can represent and reason about communicative actions based on social networks and the resulting knowledge and ignorance of agents. We apply this logic to formally analyse the “Revolt or Stay-at-home” problem ...