2014 Contracts Licensing Patent Infringement 
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 3, 2024
holding that the language of the governing contract's forum selection clause expressly allowed for the filing of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings in certain circumstances. entered into a settlement and license agreement in 2014, following years of patent litigation over their competing glucose monitoring system patents.
Patently-O
MAY 1, 2024
May 1, 2024) offers some interesting insight into leveraged patent transactions, and the effect of a lender’s ability to license or assign a patent on the patent owner’s standing to sue for infringement, especially after default. ” IT sued Zebra for infringement in the W.D.Tex.,
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Patently-O
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
The decision is significant as it is the first by the Fifth Circuit to address the licensing of standards-essential patents and the meaning of “fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory” (FRAND) licensing terms, adding to the growing body of jurisprudence already issued by the Third, Ninth and Federal Circuits in this area.
LexBlog IP
AUGUST 31, 2021
The decision rejected HTC’s argument that the non-discrimination portion of the FRAND commitment required Ericsson to give HTC the same licensing terms as given larger mobile device manufacturers, because that would convert the ETSI FRAND commitment into a most-favored-licensee approach that ETSI had refused to adopt. per 4G device.
Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts
DECEMBER 2, 2020
The USPTO is willing to issue patents on cannabis irrespective of its legality because patent rights are merely negative rights; a patent is the right to exclude others from the invention claimed therein rather than a license to make, use, or sell the invention. 208 (2014). Pure Hemp Collective, Inc. ,
The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Admittedly, Belgian law provides that a Belgian patent ceases to have effect once a European patent covering the same invention has been granted to the same inventor, but this provision does not govern the relationship between two European patents.
Intellectual Property Law Blog
AUGUST 30, 2023
Background In 2006 and 2012, ABS and STGenetics entered into related contracts for sorting semen. In 2014, ABS filed an antitrust lawsuit in the Western District of Wisconsin against STGenetics. STGenetics brought counterclaims and third-party claims for, among other things, infringement of the ’987 patent.
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