Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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Written by Robert J. Hilton and Eric Furman, Ph.D. Before Prost, O’Malley , and Wallach. Appeal from the District of Connecticut (nonprecedential). On August 2, 2017, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District…
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…
In Rothschild Connected Devices Innovations, LLC v. Guardian Protection Services, Inc., [2016-2521] (June 5, 2017), the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded the determination that Appellee Rothschild Connected Devices Innovations, LLC had not engaged in…
Written by Damien Howard and Michael L. Fuller Is a patent directed to electronic communications between computing devices patent eligible? As with many legal questions, the answer to this question is not black and white. In the recent Fitbit, Inc. v.…
Written by Peter Heuser, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt In Metalcraft , the Circuit affirms a preliminary injunction based largely on the patentee’s proof that it ‎would be impossible to quantify damages ‎caused by loss of potentially-lifelong…
Patent litigants or other “real parties in interest” are estopped from asserting invalidity challenges in federal court “on any ground that the petitioner raised or reasonably could have raised during the inter partes review [IPR].”…
Public IP licensing companies (PIPCOs) are very much alive and some company shares are doing surprisingly well, despite increased obstacles to patent licensing. PIPX reported a 20.4% gain for the 3Q vs. just 3.3% for the S&P 500 . It was the PIPX’s…
A few weeks ago, we identified the 25 most litigated patents since 2010 and learned they were responsible for more than 6% of all patent suits in the country. As promised, we decided to look at the technologies involved in litigation in order to identify…
A prior post reported on the litigation between Electric Power Group (EPG) and Alstom Grid . The lawsuit, filed in the Central District of California, alleged that Alstom’s “PhasorPoint” and “e-terravision” solutions infringed…
By Joshua Davenport and Aseet Patel While the number of decisions holding claims to be patent eligible under the two-part Alice test has been few and far between, sometimes even seemingly unfavorable decisions provide valuable insight into courts’…
This morning government Accountability Office (GAO) released the result of 1.5 years research on issues related to patent quality, non-practicing entities, and high litigation. Their suggestion is better search and better review and examination process for…
