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Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
The post 3 Count: Pokemon with Litigation appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Nintendo sues Palworld developer, judge trims Office Depot's legal fees and Amazon joints the Motion Picture Association.
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JD Supra Law
JANUARY 13, 2025
The threat of German patent litigation is rising. Indeed, in many instances, these German actions are one front in a. By: WilmerHale
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JD Supra Law
MARCH 4, 2025
This Article analyzes over 89,000 patents litigated over a twenty-year period to determine how the number of office actions to allowance during prosecution impacts rates of invalidity during subsequent litigation.
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 6, 2025
The conversation takes us deep into the world of audio, video, standard essential patents, patent pools, patent licensing, patent dealmaking, inevitable patent litigation that is often necessary when so much money is at stake, and much more.
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JD Supra Law
APRIL 1, 2025
This article continues our analysis of over 89,000 patents to determine how the number of office actions to allowance during prosecution impacts litigation outcomes. Last month we discussed how prosecution length impacts invalidity rates during litigation. Now we discuss how it impacts findings of infringement.
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JD Supra Law
APRIL 3, 2025
Actavis Labs. United States, Case No. 23-1320 (Fed.
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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
MARCH 31, 2025
Nokia announced today that it has signed a deal with Amazon to end all patent litigation between the two companies, the terms of which are confidential.
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JD Supra Law
MARCH 26, 2025
On March 21, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in a precedential opinion that legal fees incurred by generic drug companies in defending against patent infringement suits brought under the Hatch-Waxman Act constitute ordinary and necessary business expenses that may be deducted in the year in which they are incurred, and do not need (..)
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JD Supra Law
AUGUST 19, 2024
Our Texas Patent Litigation Monthly Wrap-Up for July 2024 covers three decisions of interest from the Eastern District of Texas granting motions related to subject matter eligibility, stays pending inter partes review (IPR), and pleading standards for pre-suit willfulness. By: Fish & Richardson
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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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IP Watchdog
DECEMBER 6, 2024
This week in Other Barks and Bites: the Government Accountability Office published its report on third-party funding for patent litigation showing mixed responses to proposed disclosure requirements; the Second Circuit affirms a lower ruling that copyright ownership claims to George Clinton sound recordings are time-barred; the U.S.
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JD Supra Law
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
In patent litigation, expert witnesses play a crucial role in providing specialized knowledge to the court. for patent infringement, the Federal Circuit highlighted the importance of understanding expert witnesses' qualifications. In a recent case where Osseo Imaging LLC sued Planmeca USA Inc. By: Fenwick & West LLP
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JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
A litigation regarding patent ownership rights is heating up in the Delaware Court of Chancery, a court of equity that is an atypical forum for pharmaceutical company and intellectual property disputes. CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CyDex) filed a breach of contract action against Bexson Biomedical, Inc. By: DLA Piper
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 13, 2025
In June 2023, as is widely known, more than 50 years of efforts to create a pan-European patent jurisdiction were finally successful and the Unified Patent Court opened its doors.
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SpicyIP
JANUARY 28, 2025
She shared several pertinent points on issues concerning expert evidence in IP litigations and what she thinks is the best way forward for the Indian Courts vis a vis engaging experts in IP matters. Malobika Sen (MS) : Could you elaborate on the role of expert evidence in IP litigation? I even asked both sides to propose names.
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 27, 2025
Patent and Trademark Offices (USPTOs) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has jurisdiction over expired patents brought before it in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. While the CAFC has previously ruled in appeals from the PTAB involving expired patents, it has not squarely addressed the subject until now.
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Patent Trademark Blog
MARCH 18, 2025
What are the right patents for Amazon sellers? Traditional patents that might work in the courts may not be the best type of IP protection for online sales on the e-commerce platform. Since Amazon uses their own legal system for adjudicating patent disputes , sellers need to know how to play the IP game Amazon’s way.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The story is every inventor's nightmare: A small innovative company develops a breakthrough technology. A much larger company takes notice. Shortly thereafter, it launches a suspiciously similar product. I understand this story well,because I lived it as General Counsel of SilcoTek, a small technology company.
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IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 15, 2024
There are two distinct procedures available to parties for resolving patent infringement matters in China: an administrative procedure before the IP office and a civil procedure before the courts.
SpicyIP
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
This case pertains to patent infringement concerning two process patents related to the fungicide Azoxystrobin. filed a suit against the defendant, GSP Crop Science Private Limited, alleging infringement of the following patents the Indian Patent No. Two more interesting issues arose in this case.
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Erik K Pelton
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Patent and Trademark Office Assisting with discovery and motions in litigation matters Immersing themselves in the daily operations and projects of a boutique law firm The EMP&A internship program has a history of mentoring numerous students from various law schools across the country for over a decade.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 23, 2025
The majority of 2024 was a quiet year for design patent cases at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. design patents: one Rule 36(a) affirmance, two decisions involving litigation misconduct, one affirmance of an Examiners (and Boards) rejection, and one en banc decision that overturned more than 40 years of obviousness case law.
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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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 26, 2025
The Federal Circuit reversed noninfringement findings made under the reverse doctrine of equivalents (RDOE), declining to declare the doctrine subsumed by the 1952 Patent Act, but finding that Steuben Foods raised compelling arguments on that point. Shibuya Hoppman Corp., The opinion was authored by Chief Judge Moore.
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IP Law 360
JANUARY 16, 2025
Patent lawsuits launched by nonpracticing entities shot up in 2024, with the Eastern District of Texas being the primary hotbed for such cases, according to a new report.
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JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
103, claim breadth and the importance of detailed evidence in patent litigation. The decision, which largely favored Apple, provides key guidance for patent owners and practitioners navigating the dos and donts of patent application preparation, prosecution and litigation including. By: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 22, 2025
On May 6, 2021, plaintiffs sued defendants for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
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JD Supra Law
MARCH 10, 2025
Insulin Glargine Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple litigations/IPRs are counted more than once. By: Venable LLP
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JD Supra Law
MARCH 10, 2025
Rituximab Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple litigations/IPRs are counted more than once. Within each litigation a claim is counted only once.
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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.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 12, 2025
Etanercept Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple litigations/IPRs are counted more than once. Within each litigation a claim is counted only once.
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Patent Trademark Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2024
How to Ask the Right Questions About Utility Patent Infringement Utility patent infringement is complex, to say the least. It’s not just about whether the products infringe the utility patent. Need to enforce or defend a utility patent infringement claim? What is utility patent infringement?
JD Supra Law
MARCH 31, 2025
In less than a month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has dramatically reformed its policies and procedures for exercising its discretion to deny institution of AIA post-grant proceedings. By: Hudnell Law Group
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 29, 2025
affirming the Northern District of Californias dismissal of patent infringement claims broadly seeking damages for the smartphone industrys use of semiconductor technologies. Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a per curiam ruling in Huang v. Amazon.com, Inc.
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
MARCH 10, 2025
IPWatchdog has learned that Farheena Rasheed has been asked by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to serve as one of the Acting Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Rasheed will immediately move to the PTAB.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 10, 2025
In 2013, the United States Supreme Court significantly changed the landscape of patent settlements in the pharmaceutical industry with its FTC v. Actavis, Inc.
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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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IP Watchdog
MARCH 10, 2025
We began our conversation with the story about how John Holcomb the patent litigator went from private practice to becoming Judge John Holcomb of the U.S. Federal District Court for the Central District of California.
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JD Supra Law
MARCH 26, 2025
On March 24, 2025, the United States Patent and Tradmark Office (USPTO) issued a new Memorandum providing guidance on discretionary denials (or Fintiv denials) for inter partes review (IPR) challenges based on co-pending patent litigation.
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IP Watchdog
MARCH 19, 2025
Kroy IP) has significant strategic implications for patent litigation and inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. This article focuses on how the decision affects patent litigation and IPR strategies for both patent owners and IPR petitioners. Groupon Inc.
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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 Watchdog
MARCH 12, 2025
This would represent the second legal victory in the UK in recent weeks for Lenovo, Motorolas owner, following the UK Court of Appeals ruling that Ericsson breached fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) obligations related to 4G and 5G standard-essential patents (SEPs) asserted in separate litigation.
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