JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 13, 2024

This article is the second in our series on patent litigation strategies for cybersecurity companies. It expands on Tactic #1, Challenge the courts jurisdiction, from our earlier article, Five Tactics for Cybersecurity Companies to Defeat Patent Infringement Claims.. By: Fish & Richardson

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. This litigation has arisen amongst a flurry of recent interest in AI generated works. What is AI image generation software?

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 23, 2023

The European Union is reportedly considering sweeping new regulations for the licensing and litigation of standard essential patents (SEPs), which make fair-minded observers wonder whether any sane adults are in charge at the European Commission (EC).

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As patent litigators are well-aware, the Western District of Texas and the District of Delaware, the two most popular venues for patent litigation, each issued orders regulating litigation in their districts in 2022. So as of early 2023, what effect have those orders had on patent filings? of total cases ).

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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

JUNE 20, 2023

For example, receiving compensation from those who use patented designs without permission often requires patent owners (e.g., inventors) to send cease and desist letters, file complaints in federal district court, and at times endure patent litigation to its completion.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By reintroducing the requirement that inventors submit a miniature working model of their inventions along with their patent, legislators could help to deter patent trolls, reduce frivolous litigation and support legitimate inventors in protecting their innovations, says Darin Gibby at Kilpatrick.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report reflecting the agencys investigation into third-party funding of patent litigation in the United States. On December 5, the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 19, 2023

The impact of the long-awaited launch of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is hard to overstate. While litigators and patent portfolio managers are immediately feeling the impact in Europe, surprisingly, they should also expect an impact on information disclosure statement (IDS) strategy for U.S. patent applications.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Kat-boat in Amsterdam As previously announced, the P harma & Biotech Patent Litigation Summit will take place in Amsterdam on 21 and 22 January 2025 , with the UPC Litigation Forum taking place on 20 January. According to the organizers, this is Europe’s premier event for patent litigation professionals.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 15, 2024

Universal Connectivity Tech. 1-23-cv-01506 (W.D. 34, Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower to Judge Pitman - A magistrate judge recommended denying defendant Dell Technologies, Inc.’s s motion to dismiss in the Western District of Texas when Dell argued that pre-suit knowledge is a prerequisite for indirect infringement.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 25, 2024

Template from Nokia’s timeless “hands” commercial (see here ) In a major development, all the patent disputes (including the 5G SEP dispute) between Oppo and Nokia stand settled as both parties enter into a cross-licensing agreement.

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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

MAY 16, 2023

On day one of IPWatchdog’s Patent Litigation Masters program yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied two patent eligibility cases that the U.S. patent eligibility law, which generally have to do with a lack of clarity, arguably fostered by many of the Court’s own precedents. Solicitor General had recommended granting.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 23, 2024

As the era of biologics and biosimilar litigations heats up in the United States, Europe’s Unified Patent Court (UPC) is also taking center stage with the first two biosimilar disputes filed in March and April. By: Venable LLP

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Litigation funding resulting in more heated disputes, artificial intelligence tools becoming a fact of life for patent attorneys and increased use of patent reexaminations are among the trends attorneys will be keeping tabs on in the coming year.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 30, 2024

Intel has managed to turn the tide on litigation where it had faced the daunting possibility of owing VLSI Technology more than $3 billion for infringing microchip patents, with the tech company winning patent invalidations and a large verdict do-over.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 11, 2024

A coalition of tech companies, retailers and tech activist groups lined up on Monday in opposition to the latest legislative effort to limit patent invalidation in the courts, warning that unseating legal precedents over eligibility would lead to a coming "wave of crippling litigation."

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Patently-O

JULY 9, 2024

Two of the most controversial patent law changes of the past year have involved obviousness-type double patenting, which allows applicants to patent obvious variants of their earlier patents by disclaiming the extra term of the later-expiring patent. The Federal Circuit’s Cellect decision addresses this concern.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Are injunctions back as a matter of law in all patent cases? The Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act of 2024 aims to address a growing concern in the innovation ecosystem: the diminishing power of injunctive relief in patent infringement cases.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The long-awaited opening of Europe’s Unified Patent Court has brought a period of uncertainty, leaving patent litigators navigating a new frontier for IP disputes and watching closely for the first major decisions set to be handed down in 2024.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 15, 2024

Companies that generate revenue from patents are seeing less willingness to negotiate in recent years among businesses they approach about potential licenses, requiring more litigation in order to reach agreements, executives from IBM, InterDigital and others said Monday.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 15, 2024

Trade secret litigation has seen a gradual increase over the past decade, driven by the promise of substantial damages awards, a new federal law, and frustration over the challenges of patent litigation, according to intellectual property attorneys.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Legal regimes are shifting, including in the intellectual property world as businesses increasingly seek the protection of trade secrets rather than patents to secure their confidential information. When the Defend Trade Secrets Act was passed in 2016, trade secret litigation skyrocketed, increasing more than 25 percent in a single year.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This post is about patents, other IPRs and reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration. April saw Cape Verde join the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property as well as the Madrid Protocol and the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement. Katfriend, Ifeanyi E.

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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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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Litigation funder Longford Capital has asked a Delaware federal court to send its dispute over a settlement with Arigna Technology Ltd. to arbitration, saying the arbitration agreement between the two parties is valid despite the Irish patent holding company's claims otherwise.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 30, 2024

Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) today introduced a bill to restore the presumption of injunctive relief to patent owners facing infringement. The Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act of 2024 would essentially abrogate eBay v.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 20, 2024

However, life sciences companies should nonetheless take note of efforts by congress to enact patent-related reforms such as this. UPDATE: The stop-gap spending bill has been revised to remove the provision discussed herein. By: MoFo Life Sciences

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IP Law 360

JUNE 18, 2024

Microsoft indicated on Tuesday that it has decided to settle a fight with a litigation outfit that won a $242 million verdict from a Delaware federal jury over patents bought from a company that developed Apple's Siri software.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Router maker Netgear urged a California federal judge Monday to hold a mini-trial to determine a reasonable royalty rate for licensing Wi-Fi technology patents from Huawei, which Netgear claims is engaging in anticompetitive behavior and a "scorched earth worldwide litigation campaign" to extract excessive royalties.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Patent owners generally look to secondary indicia to bolster their nonobvious defenses when prior art and/or knowledge of a person of ordinary skill in the art (“POSA”) seem to make the obviousness decision a close call. This trend is just as common in Hatch Waxman litigation. By: Womble Bond Dickinson

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Patently-O

JULY 9, 2024

by Dennis Crouch I recently provided a set of interesting data on the large number of patents that are “at risk” of being invalidated based on the Federal Circuit’s Cellect decision. The article takes a critical look at the practice of obviousness-type double patenting in the U.S. patent system. 4th 1216 (Fed.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 6, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office; Assisting with discovery and motions in litigation matters; and. Intern duties will include: Assisting associates with all aspects of trademark clearance, registration, and counsel; Drafting responses Office Actions at the U.S. Immersion in the activities and work of a boutique law firm.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Holland & Knight LLP has hired a partner from Quarles & Brady LLP who has experience handling patent litigation and cross-border deals as well as navigating China's legal system.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We are pleased to bring to you this sponsored post by IP Press on the extension of the registration deadlines for their Comprehensive Course on Patents, in collaboration with S. The IP Press presents the third cohort of the Comprehensive Course on Patents. Majumdar & Co.who are experts in the field of Patents.

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Olartemoure Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

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