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Written by Mark Speegle and Sean Murray Edited by John Sganga , Joe Cianfrani , and Boris Zelkind In a final judgment dated July 19, 2017, a Florida federal court awarded treble damages to Omega Patents, a non-practicing patent licensing entity, for the…
Written by Stephanie M. Johnson and Paul Stewart Edited by John Sganga , Joe Cianfrani , and Boris Zelkind On July 19, 2017, a federal court in Michigan awarded Stryker Sales Corporation (“Stryker”) a total of more than $254,000,000 in its…
Judge Gilstrap Singled Out in Congressional Hearing as Defying SCOTUS Yesterday, the House IP Subcommittee on the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet conducted a hearing entitled: The Impact of Bad Patents on American Businesses. During the…
Written by Peter E. Heuser , Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. In AdjustaCam v. Newegg , the Circuit reverses the denial of attorney fees where Judge Gilstrap simply adopted a pre- Octane Fitness determination by a prior judge, despite the Circuit’s…
Written by Jeff Van Hoosear and Jonathan Menkes Edited by Catherine Holland In a recent precedential decision, In re University of Miami, Serial No. 86616382 (T.T.A.B. June 6, 2017), the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the “TTAB”) clarified…
Written by Peter E. Heuser, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. In NexLearn the Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a patent infringement case for lack of personal jurisdiction even though a software provider had, among other things, offered a potential…
Written by Patrick Muffo & Kevin Mahoney , Seyfarth Shaw Every day, companies unknowingly give up intellectual property and trade secrets which they could have otherwise protected with simple processes. Poor R&D policies may not capture patent rights on a…
In SCA v. First Quality Baby Products , the Supreme Court ‎holds that laches should not be available as a defense in ‎patent cases, refusing to concur with the Circuit’s en banc ‎holding that the Patent Act’s 6-year limitation on…
Followers of this blog may have recognized through the years an implicit belief in a connection between the sometimes intricate rules of intellectual property and larger, high-level issues, principally climate change, but also business, competition, and…
Written by Paul Chang, Ph.D. and Brenden Gingrich, Ph.D. Anticipation by inherent disclosure requires that a single prior art reference necessarily includes the unstated limitation. The unpredictable nature of biological processes means that winning…
Written by Charlene Azema and Jonathan Hyman On December 22, 2016, the Second Circuit gave tote bag manufacturer My Other Bag an early Christmas present by tossing out luxury giant Louis Vuitton’s claims of trademark infringement, copyright…
Since 2012, IPRs have emerged as one of the most significant developments in intellectual property. Even if you are already familiar with IPRs, these videos illustrate how actual IPR practitioners might approach some common issues. Introduction to IPRs…
