SpicyIP

MARCH 7, 2024

This high-profile case revolves around allegations of patent infringement concerning two patents (“Suit Patents”), both relating to ‘Pertuzumab,’ a monoclonal antibody (Mab) biologic used in inhibiting tumor growth. Find it here.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Affordable ways to enforce intellectual property. If you don’t have at least two million dollars laying around to sue for patent infringement, this post is for you. Thankfully, you can enforce intellectual property without spending your life savings. Does cheap IP enforcement exist?

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2023

The Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) on Monday held a webinar featuring some big names in the IP world to clear up what the organization characterizes as misguided views on the use of Title 28 of the U.S. government statement of interest filed in a patent infringement suit against Moderna, Inc.’s patented invention.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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. A statutory defense to patent enforcement could be another solution, as seen in the American approach in 28 U.S. Code § 1498 (a).

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The US has started a worldwide complaint about China’s new legal strategy against intellectual property (IP) theft claims. Since the beginning of 2020, four claims of IP theft have gone to Chinese courts. These injunctions help prevent identical intellectual property thefts in multiple jurisdictions.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 1, 2023

Substantial patent litigation activity occurred in the mRNA space in 2022, involving nearly all of the major mRNA and lipid nanoparticle (LNP) pioneers. Since this is the most significant happening in this space with respect to IP in 2022, this post will provide an overview of that activity as well as a summary exposure analysis.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 15, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Judge Pauline Newman made of attendees of IPWatchdog’s Patent Litigation Masters 2024 program on Monday, imploring them to “think creatively” to solve the intellectual property problems of today. That was the request U.S.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 2, 2024

USI) filed an amicus brief in Island Intellectual Property LLC v. Yesterday, US Inventor, Inc. TD Ameritrade, Inc., urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) to reconsider its use of Rule 36 when affirming decisions.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 24, 2022

Litigation is almost always recommended to be avoided , whether because of the sheer amount of time needed to get a court date, the expensive costs for the client and law firm, or the risks associated with receiving an unfavorable judgement. Michelle Mao is an incoming 2L JD student at Osgoode Hall Law school and an IPilogue Writer.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 22, 2022

Chinese Patent Litigation: Leveraging Specialized IP Courts. Selecting a jurisdiction for Patent Litigation in China. In China, when multiple courts would have jurisdiction over a plaintiff’s case, a patent owner can choose which court will try their case.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A Sheppard Mullin trial team led by partners Brad Graveline and Laura Burson obtained one of the largest patent infringement damages awards against the United States of America for client SecurityPoint Holdings, Inc (SecurityPoint). SecurityPoint brought its claim for patent infringement against the United States under 28 U.S.C.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The complaint alleged that Scientific Games, through its acquired entity, SHFL Entertainment, brought patent infringement litigation in 2009 and 2012 based on fraudulently obtained patents for automatic card shufflers used in licensed casinos. The plaintiffs had sued Scientific Games Corp.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 7, 2024

Intellectual property litigation in the 21st century has brought to the fore systems for asserting infringement in which IP owners may be spared some of the huge expense of litigation by “routing” extra-judicial enforcement activities through a third party.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 11, 2022

Goodwin is actively seeking Science Advisors to join its Intellectual Property (IP) Litigation group. “They make sure that our case teams have a mastery of the technologies at issue and contribute to the technical aspects of our litigation strategies so that we can represent our clients to the best of our abilities.”

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

The interface of Intellectual Property (IP) incline with Amazon’s approach herein. In matters of trade, Trademark, copyright and Patent act as building blocks of protection measures while conferring exclusive right over goods/services for the holder. Patent infringement can occur in both of these roles.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 5, 2023

Nu Tsai Capital, LLC, [2023-1146] (February 17, 2023), the Federal Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction against Lite-Netics patent-related speech, holding that the district court abused its discretion. Patent Nos. Harness IP is celebrating more than 100 years as an intellectual property law firm.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 9, 2022

Most companies are aware of the potential patent infringement liability for sales made in the United States but may not know that liability for infringing a U.S. patent can also extend to the processes used to make their product—even when manufacturing is done entirely outside the United States by a contract manufacturer.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2024

In Dragon Intellectual Property LLC v. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a prevailing defendant in an otherwise “exceptional” patent infringement case could not recover attorney fees expended in a parallel inter partes review (IPR) proceeding because the defendant’s initiation of the IPR was “voluntary.”

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The District of Delaware is renowned as a patent litigation hot spot, but the district sees its fair share of other IP litigation. Judge Andrews’s Javo opinion is a guidepost for parties that are either pleading infringement or trying to dismiss infringement claims early. at 1212 (Thomas, J.,

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The IPKat

APRIL 24, 2023

Last Friday, WIPO published An International Guide to Patent Case Management for Judges. For each jurisdiction, there are several chapters which sets out the procedure and practice for managing patent cases, namely patent infringement cases., while also " integrating pertinent patent law doctrines ".

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2024

In patent litigation, damages issues are sometimes treated as an afterthought when compared to the issues of infringement and invalidity. However, achieving a client’s goals requires an attorney to place damages at the center of the litigation strategy from the very beginning.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2022

In the first major patent infringement lawsuit in the mRNA space, on February 28, 2022, Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (“Arbutus”) and Genevant Sciences GmbH (“Genevant”) sued Moderna, Inc. The plaintiffs have alleged that Moderna infringed U.S. and ModernaTX, Inc.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Twenty-five intellectual property luminaries sent a letter today to several members of Congress asking them to beware of misleading and inaccurate assertions by “activists and academics” that government price controls on drugs will lead to lower costs for consumers.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2023

government’s recent statement of interest filed in a patent infringement suit against Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. That statement argued that Moderna should be released from infringement liability under the terms of a government contract that “authorize[d] and consent[ed] to all use and manufacture” of any U.S.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Why then do the headlines on this story notably lack the large damage awards one would typically see in a finding of patent infringement? The answer highlights some of the pros and cons of using the ITC to enforce patents over federal district courts. § 1337), commonly referred to as a “Section 337 investigation.”

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 21, 2023

.” GSK seeks findings of infringement, a permanent injunction, lost profits and/or royalties, and attorneys’ fees. Stay tuned for more coverage of this case and other big molecule litigations! The post GSK Sues Pfizer for Patent Infringement over RSV Vaccine appeared first on Big Molecule Watch.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Carmel Wroth and Joe Palca: Moderna Suing Pfizer, BioNTech for Patent Infringement in Development of COVID-19 Vaccine (Source: NPR). Sean Silcoff: BlackBerry’s US$600-Million Patent Sale in Doubt as Canadian-Led Lending Syndicate Bails (Source: The Globe and Mail). Dority & Manning.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled in a nonprecedential opinion that a Florida district court correctly dismissed a UK-based patent owner’s infringement case after he willfully disobeyed the court and disrupted the enforcement of a court order.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The agreement enabled the three parties involved to obtain Freedom to Operate (abbreviated as FTO) , thereby authorizing one another to use some of their respective patented technologies without worrying about Patent Infringement. For more visit: [link].

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The ‘911 patent relates to “extraction of pharmaceutically active components … more particularly … botanical drug substance (B.D.S.) UCANN filed for bankruptcy in 2020, which stayed the litigation. The parties stipulated to dismiss the infringement claims with prejudice in 2021. The stipulation made no mention of attorney fees.

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Kashishipr

MAY 5, 2021

The term ‘Patent Troll’ originated in 1994 in an educational video by Paula Natasha Chavez called the ‘Patents Video.’ ’ A patent troll is a term used for describing a company that uses Patent Infringement claims to win arguments and court judgments for profit or to stifle competition.

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Larson & Larson

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Intellectual property is often traced back to the creativity of humankind. Such creations of the human mind-commonly referred to as intellectual property- have found protection under the law- what is otherwise known as intellectual property law. What is Intellectual Property Rights Infringement?

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We previously reported on patent infringement litigations between Alnylam and Moderna. First, in a patent action brought by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Alnylam”) against Moderna, Inc., Stay tuned to Big Molecule Watch for more updates on this litigation. ModernaTX, Inc., and Moderna US, Inc.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 22, 2022

The major streaming companies, including Disney, challenged WAG Acquisitions [of Woodsford Litigation Funding] patents before the Board; SharkNinja challenges Bissel patents on vacuum cleaners; and FedEx challenged patents owned by Raymond Anthony Joao’s ultra-litigious Transcend Shipping.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2023

The CAFC affirmed all but the latter holding, explaining that the later-discovered prior art that was not part of the IPR petition must be held to a “skilled searcher” standard that it is the burden of the patent holder to prove is subject to IPR estoppel.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In patent infringement cases, venue is proper under 28 U.S.C § 1406(a) where either (1) the company accused of infringement is incorporated or (2) where the company has committed acts of infringement and has a “regular and established place of business.”

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eli Lilly decisions provide a glimpse into what litigants can expect in the aftermath of the GSK v. Court of appeals for the Federal Circuit or the Supreme Court, they can be an important proving ground for the decisions rendered by those courts. And 2023 was no exception to that rule. As discussed below, the Zogenix v. Apotex and Teva v.

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