Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

How do you defend a patent infringement claim? Accusations of patent infringement should be taken seriously. Whether they are asserted in the form of cease-and-desist letter or an Amazon patent violation, an accused infringer needs to gauge the seriousness of the problem. Are your patent claims invalid?

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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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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

and its affiliated parties (“Woodland”), asserting design patent infringement, false advertising, trade secret. By: Irwin IP LLP Fiskars Finland OY AB and Fiskars Brands Inc. collectively, “Fiskars”) sued Woodland Tools Inc.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential opinion affirming-in-part, vacating-in-part, and remanding a district court’s dismissal of a patent infringement complaint filed by AlexSam, Inc. 6,000,608 (“’608 patent”). against Aetna, Inc.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Pankhuri Malik is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and an LLM Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In the latest development in the global patent wars between Google and Sonos, Google has sued Sonos, having filed two suits in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on August 8, 2022.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 15, 2024

What is a patent declaratory judgment lawsuit? A patent declaratory judgment action is an infringement lawsuit in reverse. The plaintiff is the accused infringer seeking a declaration of noninfringement from the court. The patent owner is the defendant. Need to defend a patent infringement claim?

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday issued a precedential decision affirming a California district court’s decision to grant Blippar.com’s motion to dismiss a patent infringement claim brought against it because the asserted patent claims were ineligible under Section 101. Patent Nos.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Is patent enforcement possible for small companies? Whatever people may have heard about patent enforcement, one thing is clear. Almost everyone knows that patent infringement lawsuits are expensive. If patent infringement litigation is so costly, what options are available to startups and small businesses?

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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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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. Moderna claimed that they had registered foundational mRNA patents between 2010 and 2016. This exposes some concerns about our patent laws.

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IPilogue

MAY 30, 2022

Claire La Mantia is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Pina D’Agostino’s Directed Reading: IP Innovation Program course. This lawsuit was made in response to Peloton’s claim that Lululemon’s design patents for these activewear pieces were invalid.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

On September 20, 2021, Judge John Robert Blakey in the Northern District of Illinois issued an opinion in a Walker Process patent fraud antitrust case denying defendants’ motion for summary judgment on their statute of limitations defense. TCS John Huxley America, Inc. Scientific Games Corp., 1:19-cv-1846, 2021 WL 4264403 (N.D.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A Virginia-based inventor filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. in Washington federal court Thursday, alleging that the tech giant unlawfully infringed his video conferencing patent.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 10, 2023

In March, Samsung agreed to pay UK Nanotechnology Company Nanoco USD 150 million in a patent infringement dispute over patents used in QLED televisions that featured legal team from Wei Chixue Law Firm of Linda Liu Group - a Top 10 IP Law Firm in China. By: Linda Liu & Partners

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

vacating a summary judgment entered by the Central District of California that found Feit Electric did not infringe semiconductor light source patent claims asserted by CAO Lighting. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling in CAO Lighting, Inc. Feit Electric Co.,

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IP Law 360

MARCH 11, 2024

A Delaware federal judge on Monday denied MediaTek's bid to throw out claims in a suit in which it is accused by Philips of patent infringement, calling MediaTek's attempt to exit the case "scattershot."

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 29, 2024

A California federal judge denied a bid by Amazon and its streaming platform unit Twitch Monday to toss a patent infringement suit over video streaming technology, saying the patent at issue isn't abstract and invalid but shows an improvement over prior inventions for computer functionality.

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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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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. Patent Nos. and ModernaTX, Inc.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A Texas federal jury found Tuesday that a licensing company hasn't proved that certain Nokia internet protocol routers infringe a trio of patents related to technology for transmitting data, handing a win to the telecommunications giant.

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Intellectual Property Brief

APRIL 16, 2021

On August 20, 2020, the Federal Circuit held that patent owner Walter A. for patent infringement because Tormasi was barred from conducting business due to his status as a New Jersey inmate. Apparently, inmates do not have the right to sue to enforce their valuable patent rights.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

What began as a patent infringement case has swerved into judicial ethics waters, due to the ruling of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2023

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate and House are back in session and holding a variety of hearings on departments’ 2024 budget requests, including for the Department of Commerce and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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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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IP Law 360

APRIL 5, 2024

IMS, reaffirmed that product owners have broad rights to repair or modify their property as they see fit, highlighting the parameters of the right to repair in the context of patent infringement, say Dustin Weeks and Dabney Carr at Troutman Pepper.

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Patent Trademark Blog

APRIL 21, 2022

What is the design patent infringement test? The test for design patent infringement involves a visual comparison between the patented design and the accused product. Does the accused product have to include the point of novelty in order to infringe? Is that all there is to design patent infringement?

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IP Watchdog

JULY 23, 2024

The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet today held a hearing, titled “IP Litigation and the U.S. International Trade Commission” (ITC), featuring four witnesses, most of whom were advocating for reforms to the current ITC process that many would characterize as anti-patent.

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Patent Trademark Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

What is the cost of fighting an Amazon seller patent case? The cost of an Amazon patent evaluation can range from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands. Patent litigation in federal court can range from hundreds of thousands to millions. Need an Amazon contingency patent attorney who will charge fees based on results?

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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.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 6, 2024

May 1, 2024) On May 1, the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of Intellectual Tech’s (“IT’s”) patent infringement claims against Zebra Technologies (“Zebra”) for lack of constitutional standing. By: Irwin IP LLP

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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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Patent Trademark Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Does Amazon allow patent owners to file a claim for utility patent infringement against sellers? Yes, Amazon offers its own patent court for sellers to resolve utility patent infringement claims. Neutral Patent Evaluation is the name of the process to resolve Amazon utility patent infringement claims.

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Patent Trademark Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Why would foreign manufacturers promise that no patents cover their products? It should not surprise you when a manufacturer in China claims that no patents cover their products. But if not, why would they admit it or provide any cautions about the possibility of infringing a US patent ? Patents are territorial rights.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Join Troutman Pepper Partners Bill Belanger and Greg Len for an insightful discussion on the evolving landscape of intellectual property (IP) within the renewable energy sector. Learn about the risks and opportunities for businesses, and hear compelling stories of how strategic IP management can lead to successful.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 25, 2022

courts apply in deciding claims for willful patent infringement and enhanced damages? Cisco Systems Federal Circuit case, from Procopio Silicon Valley IP attorneys Robert Sloss and Miku Mehta. What standard do U.S. Learn tips on how to avoid such damages, as well as a summary of the critical SRI International v.

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Patent Trademark Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Can you infringe a pending patent application? You cannot infringe a patent application. Only issued patents can be infringed. For creators of genuinely innovative products, it may seem unfair that they cannot stop copycats unless and until their patents are granted. Focus on the patent number.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

manufacturer of the Hydrow Rower, brought a design patent infringement and trade dress infringement action against iFit Health & Fitness (formerly Icon Health & Fitness) in the District of Delaware. By: Harness IP On February 14, 2022, Hydrow, Inc.,

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