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Moderna sues Pfizer for mRNA Patent Infringement: when optics and profits reveal real issues in modern IP law usage

IPilogue

Moderna and Pfizer battle’s over the inventive process of their respective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines revisit the negative associations of profit, monopolies, and optics in patent litigation. Moderna claimed that they had registered foundational mRNA patents between 2010 and 2016. Code § 1498 (a).

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mRNA Patent Litigation: The ‘Sport of Kings’

SpicyIP

Moderna recently sued Pfizer alleging patent infringement of three out of eight patents that cover its Covid 19 vaccine (Spikevax). Moderna’s patent infringement lawsuit is a revenue seeking activity since Moderna wants fair compensation but does not want to remove Comirnaty from the market. Image from here.

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Defending Design Patents

Patently-O

Taken together, these myths paint a grim picture of design patents: Half of all design patent applications are rejected. Most asserted design patents are invalidated in litigation. Most litigated design patents are not found infringed. Walter’s data preceded the passage of the Patent Act of 1952.

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Texas Patent Litigation Monthly Wrap-Up: September 2022

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

18] The court rejected this argument since none of the cases had actually been transferred at the time of the court’s ruling and the court also noted that the real issue of judicial economy was Samsung’s failure to move for transfer for more than a year of litigation in the court. [19] Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC, 2:21-cv-00454 (E.D. 164 at 1. [2]

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Patent Eligibility Jurisprudence

Patently-O

Additionally, if you are a patent owner or inventor, please include the number of U.S. and foreign patent applications you have filed; the number of U.S. Patent prosecution strategy and portfolio management; b. patent enforcement and litigation; c. patent counseling and opinions; d. employment; f.

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Supreme Court Declines to Weigh in on Notice Required to Trigger Statute of Limitations for Trade Secret Misappropriation Claims

LexBlog IP

District Court for the Southern District of New York found that that information and inventor names in the publicly available patent applications from the late ‘90s and early ‘00s should have put them on notice.

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Another Patent Decision, Another Day in Court for Apple

Greenspoon Marder LLP

On September 30, 2016, a federal jury in Texas ordered Apple to pay $302 million in damages to VirnetX for violating two of its patents, including patented software used in Apple’s FaceTime and iMessage applications.