Patently-O

MARCH 28, 2022

September 24, 2015) (non-precedential). 14, 2015 and directed to a system for recovering drilling fluid by using an improved “shaker.” ” A month later, May 15, 2015, M-I sued FPUSA for patent infringement in W.D.Tex and requested a preliminary injunction. FPUSA, LLC , 626 F. App’x 995 (Fed.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

OneSubsea, a competitor in the offshore oil extraction industry, originally sued FMC for patent infringement in 2015; FMC subsequently countersued. At the heart of the patent infringement dispute was whether fluid flows through FMS’s device, as in the OneSubsea patent.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

billion claim for trade secret misappropriation, patent infringement, copyright infringement and breach of contract. Ford Motor Company, was filed in April 2015 in the U.S. Brooks Kushman helped Ford Motor Company (“Ford”) secure final judgment of $3 in what was once a $1.4 The matter, Versata Software, Inc. Leitman.

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IPilogue

JULY 12, 2022

Demanding a jury trial, the 62-page complaint alleges that Nike has conducted nine counts of patent infringement relating to Adidas’ GPS, sensor and wearable technologies. Furthermore, Adidas points to similarities between its Adidas Confirmed app, launched in February 2015, and Nike’s SNKRS , introduced a few days later.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

2015) in finding that manufacture and delivery of a product in a foreign country can infringe a US patent if sufficient sales-activity occurred within the US. by Dennis Crouch. The recent Federal Circuit decision in Caltech v. California Institute of Technology v. ” A contrasting case here is Carnegie Mellon Univ.

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Garrigues Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

In addition, a third party’s use of an invention before its registration by another is also relevant to assess patent infringement. The right of prior use is set forth in article 63 of the current Patents Law of 2015, the wording of which is practically identical to that of article 54 of the earlier Patents Law of 1986.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Lee is vice president at Amazon Web Services and was the Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (2015-2017). She spent a decade at Google leading their patent team. . In 2015, I became Director of the USPTO, and the AIA changes had been in place for barely a few years.

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Patently-O

JULY 16, 2021

Form 18 focused on patent infringement and included a bare-bones set of allegations that (1) the plaintiff owns a particular patent and (2) the defendant has infringed that patent. In 2015, Form 18 was removed and the transformation complete. Image of Form 18 below). In Bot M8 v.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 30, 2024

An Indiana federal judge has dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit between Knauf Insulation Inc. On August 16, the two companies jointly requested dismissal of the 2015 lawsuit, which alleged that Johns Manville’s EasyFit and Flex-Glass insulation products infringed on seven Knauf patents. just days before trial.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 6, 2022

Eolas Technology filed patent infringement actions against Amazon, Google, and Walmart in the Eastern District of Texas in 2015. The asserted patent generally relates to remote computer systems that allow users at a client computer to connect to a network to locate, retrieve, and manipulate objects in an interactive way.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Judge Stark dissented, arguing that, although he agreed PMC’s delay in prosecuting its patent was “unreasonable and inexcusable,” Apple failed to establish that it suffered prejudice during the period of delay. PMC sued Apple in the U.S. 8,191,091.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 17, 2021

Event studies have been used before in IP, in particular regarding patent infringement disputes and patent oppositions. Generally, the very instance of an infringement case conveys positive returns for the patent owner and negative returns for the alleged infringer, irrespective of the outcome.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

lakh trademarks were registered between 2016 to 2020 as compared to the 11 lakh trademark registrations between 1940 to 2015. The Ministry had claimed that 14.2 The article looks at the number of registrations, the process of registration, and reasons for the hike in the numbers. Other News from Around the World.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Petitioners allege that in 2015, they discovered that Illumina and other Respondents were engaged in a 25-year conspiracy to steal their inventions, including by “fraudulently conceal[ing] the misappropriated IP in multiple patent applications” as early as the late 90’s.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

AUGUST 11, 2021

We are pleased that Seirus prevailed against Columbia’s claims of patent infringement,” said Christopher Marchese , trial counsel for Seirus and a principal in Fish’s Southern California office. Seirus is a small, family-run business, and this has been a difficult process for them.”.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2024

As per the report by Sukanya Sarkar at Managing IP ( paywalled ), the Court found Lava guilty of infringing Ericsson’s seven patents on 2G, EDGE, and 3G technology, but, notably also revoked one of Ericsson’s patents for lack of novelty.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Finally, our research did not support the assertion that most litigated design patents are found not infringed: Findings of Infringement as a Share of District-Court Design Patent Infringement Findings (12-mo avg) (2011–2021).

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 27, 2021

The Patent Pro Bono Program is a nationwide network that matches volunteer patent professionals with financially under-resourced inventors and small businesses for the purpose of securing patent protection. Since its launch in 2015, more than 1,800 patent professionals have volunteered their time and resources to the program.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 11, 2021

With all these various fast food restaurants entering the fray, why did Chick-fil-A or other early players in the chicken sandwich game not block these upstarts with copyright or patent infringement injunctions? A 2015 court case and trade secret law help shed some light on this question.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This case addresses whether patents relating to methods and systems for connecting users based on their answers to polling questions claim patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § Background Trinity sued Covalent for patent infringement of U.S. Patent 9,087,321 (“the ’321 patent”) and U.S.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Having started back in 2015 , Delhi High Court judge Justice Prathiba M. Singh’s book on Patent Law is finally out. It has been published by Thomson Reuters in two volumes and was launched on 9th March 2024 by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Pragati Maidan.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sockeye has sued approximately 80 defendants since it began its patent infringement campaigns in 2015. For example, Sockeye sued a group of electronics companies in 2015 and sued the same defendants again in 2022 with at least some of the same patents.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As further explained below, companies should thus very seriously consider the inclusion of patent markings on all relevant products. Design Patent No. 13, 2015, which was the design patent asserted in the matter noted above. At bottom are two annotated versions of a figure from U.S.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2021

Are research tools protected from patent infringement under the Hatch-Waxman safe harbor, section 271(e)(1)? [1] This, in effect, not only extended the patent’s term but also delayed introduction of competing products. [6]. Statutory Background. The safe harbor was enacted to overrule Roche Prods., at 860-61. [6] Elan Pharms.,

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SpicyIP

JULY 23, 2021

The White Paper analysed the ‘working’ of patented pesticides in India for patents expiring between 2015 and 2022. This comes in the backdrop of Section 83 of the Patents Act, 1970 which provides the general principles applicable to the working of patented inventions. Brief Findings of the Study.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Qualcomm had previously sued Apple for patent infringement, and Apple responded with a set of inter partes review petitions. 2015) and again in PersonalWeb Techs. However, a statutory right is insufficient for Constitutional standing.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 23, 2022

January 6, 2015. Therefore, Plaintiff is seeking damages for Direct Patent Infringement in violation of 35 U.S. According to the Complaint, Defendant, First in Finishing, Inc.

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Bio Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2020

history was approved and launched in 2015. We are likely to continue to see patent infringement litigation between biosimilar competitors in the years ahead as biosimilar makers continue to procure and enforce patents. Patent Nos. It has been nearly 10 years since the U.S. The first biosimilar product in U.S.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the Federal Circuit’s view, the PTAB’s decision had “no impact” on this infringement litigation, primarily because the PTAB’s decision was pending on appeal. Whether a party may be liable for induced patent infringement when the PTAB has already issued a final written decision determining that the same patent is invalid.

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Patently-O

APRIL 8, 2024

By Dennis Crouch In 1931, the United States Supreme Court decided a landmark case on the patentability of inventions, De Forest Radio Co. The case involved a patent infringement suit over an improved vacuum tube used in radio communications. 565, 648 (2015). General Electric Co. , 664 (1931), amended, 284 U.S. 571 (1931).

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Kashishipr

JULY 20, 2022

Hydrox was largely discontinued in 1999, and it was in September 2015 when the product was reintroduced by Leaf Brands. It was in 2019 when Nike filed a Patent Infringement lawsuit against Skechers by calling it out for copying Nike’s strategy.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2023

Other Posts COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Continues The litigation surrounding mRNA patent thickens in the USA as Pfizer/ BioNTech files defence and counterclaims against the patent infringement allegations made by Moderna.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2023

138, 154 (2015) (stating that, for collateral estoppel purposes, similar legal issues are not identical if different legal standards apply). XY (discussed in detail here ) concerned assertions of patent infringement and patent invalidity in federal court. Garner , 498 U.S. Hargis Industries, Inc. , ” Id.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2022

The court found, however, that in early 2015 Foro received only “conceptual drawings” that were not final drawings ready for manufacture, but rather the first step of an engineering process. that were previously disclosed in its first coiled tubing unit prototype that it had previously patented (the “1998 Patent”).

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2022

The court found, however, that in early 2015 Foro received only “conceptual drawings” that were not final drawings ready for manufacture, but rather the first step of an engineering process. that were previously disclosed in its first coiled tubing unit prototype that it had previously patented (the “1998 Patent”).

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In patent infringement cases, it is well-established that a patentee’s damages should reflect only the value of the patented features of an infringing product. Thus, in assessing damages, courts routinely “apportion” the infringer’s profits between the infringing and noninfringing features of its product.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

AUGUST 24, 2022

These NPEs form new entities for each specific litigation campaign, usually focused on asserting a single patent or patent family as their only asset. IP Edge was formed in Texas in July 2015 by Gautham Bodepudi, Sanjay Pant, and Lillian Woung. IP Edge follows this NPE strategy.

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