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Written by : Kendall Loebbaka & Cesar A. Estrada GENENTECH, INC. V. SANDOZ INC. Before Newman, Lourie, and Prost. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: The district court did not clearly err in considering…
Written by : Arash Pia & Nathan D. Reeves Plastipak Packaging, Inc. v. Premium Waters, Inc. Before Newman, Stoll, and Stark . Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Summary : An overwhelming amount of evidence…
Written by : Mary Bao & Nathan D. Reeves ADASA INC. v. AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION Before Moore , Hughes and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Summary : A claim directed to a specific, hardware-based data…
CASE OF THE WEEK ADASA Inc. v. Avery Dennison Corporation , Appeal No. 2022-1092 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 16, 2022) In the Federal Circuit’s only precedential opinion this week, the Court considered issues arising from infringement litigation concerning…
CASE OF THE WEEK Google LLC v. Hammond Development International, Inc. , Appeal No. 2021-2218 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 8, 2022) In the only precedential patent decision this week, the Federal Circuit issued a decision concerning the effect of collateral estoppel in…
CASE OF THE WEEK Treehouse Avatar LLC v. Valve Corp. , Appeal No. 2022-1171 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 30, 2022) In the only precedential patent opinion issued by the Federal Circuit this week, the Court affirmed a district court’s summary judgment ruling that…
Written by : Brianne M. Kingery & Jeremy Anapol TREEHOUSE AVATAR LLC v. VALVE CORPORATION Before Lourie, Reyna , and Stoll. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Summary : The district court did not abuse its…
CASE OF THE WEEK American National Manufacturing Inc. v. Sleep Number Corporation , Appeal Nos. 2021-1321, -1323, -1379, -1382 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 14, 2022) In an appeal from inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the…
There had been only two cases where damages over $2 billion have been awarded in a patent litigation case, in Pfizer vs Teva Pharmaceuticals (TEVA) & Sun Pharma (2013) – $2.15B and in Idenix vs Gilead Sciences Inc (2016) – $2.54B. The entire IP…
CASE OF THE WEEK In re: Apple Inc. , Appeal No. 2022-162 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 8, 2022) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit granted Apple’s petition for mandamus, directing the District Court for the Western District of Texas to vacate a…
Written by : Nima Zargari, Ph.D. & Kendall Loebbaka SOCLEAN, INC. v. SUNSET HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, INC. Before Newman, Lourie, and Prost . Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Summary: A trademark is entitled to a…
UNILOC 2017 LLC v. GOOGLE LLC Before Lourie, Dyk , and Hughes. Appeal from the District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary: An “irrevocable” patent license could be terminated by mutual agreement and such a license was not a…
