Patently-O

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 2020, Storus (AKA “Mosaic Brands”) sued Ridge Wallet for both patent infringement (US7334616) and product-design trade dress misappropriation. Ridge counterclaimed with its own patent infringement contentions (US10791808, Fig 11 shown above). Ridge Wallet LLC , — F.4th 4th — (Fed.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court is set to consider several significant patent law petitions addressing a range of issues from the application of obviousness standards, challenges to PTAB procedures, interpretation of joinder time limits IPR, to the proper scope patent eligibility doctrine. 1, at 48 (2011). 112–98, pt.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

So these studies can’t tell us much about what’s going on in the Federal Circuit era, unless one assumes—unreasonably—that the Federal Circuit didn’t meaningfully change design patent law. We also looked at design patent outcomes in the International Trade Commission and the UPSTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 19, 2022

In order to facilitate resolution of brand-generic patent conflict, the Patent Laws include a form of paper infringement–a legal fiction that simply filing an ANDA and Paragraph IV certification counts as a form of patent infringement. ” In re Brimonidine Patent Litig.,

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 18, 2023

On June 1, 2021, the Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law became effective. An important part of the amendment is the introduction by Article 76 of the patent linkage system in China – a system for litigation of drug patents prior to market entry of generics, similar to that provided by the Hatch Waxman Act in the US.

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SpicyIP

MAY 8, 2022

We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Eashan Ghosh on the treatment of prosecution history in trade mark infringement proceedings. Eashan has been practicing as an intellectual property advocate and consultant in New Delhi since 2011, and teaches a seminar on intellectual property law at National Law University, Delhi.

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

Campbell filed a provisional application in 2011 and a non-provisional in 2012 that eventually issued in 2016. The Patent Act includes a 6-year statute of limitations, but as written it only applies to cut-off recovery for patent infringement — and does not apply to lawsuits to correct inventorship. 663 (2014).

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