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due to settlement and a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision regarding the ‘471 Patent. While the pro se Complaint is fairly short, Cross attached numerous exhibits not discussed in the Complaint including an order dismissing Cross’ case against Meijer, Inc.
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s lawsuit claiming it was deceived when it inked a deal to settle a separate patentinfringement suit against B. A Pennsylvania federal judge has tossed for now Baxter International Inc.'s Braun, but left room for an amended complaint.
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The first kind, academic institutions, acquire patents to protect the research work of their faculty and researchers while licensing others to use the results of the research produced without commodifying the patent. They do not practice, develop, manufacture, or otherwise commercialize the patent.
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