Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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Written by Rebecca Wright, Ph.D. and Curtiss Dosier In 2006, Warner Bros. filed suit against A.V.E.L.A., X One X Productions, and ArtNostalgia.com, Inc. (collectively, “AVELA”) for copyright and trademark infringement under the Copyright Act,…
Written by Russell Jeide and Jeremy Carney Less than a month after reversing the lower court’s determination of invalidity in McRO, Inc. v. Bandai Namco Games America, Inc. , the Federal Circuit has now upheld the invalidity of claims in FairWarning…
Written by Lynda Zadra-Symes and Julianna Simon A recent UK court held that Karen Millen, a fashion designer and co-founder of the Karen Millen brand, was prohibited from using her name, KM or K.Millen or any other confusingly similar names in connection…
Written by Agnes Juang, Ph.D. and Scott Siera, Ph.D. Once a European patent application has been granted, all patentees must then choose to validate the granted application in one or more European countries. Such a decision may have long-term business and…
Written by John M. Carson and Paul Chang, Ph.D. Patent applicants whose applications have been assigned to the USPTO Technology Center 3600 have been particularly impacted by the Supreme Court’s June 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l…
Written by Mike Fuller and Keith Lim The Federal Circuit recently decided a case concerning three patents owned by Intellectual Ventures I LLC (“IV”). Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Symantec Corp. , Case Nos. 2015-1769, 2015-1770, 2015-1771…
Written by Dan Hart, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Wu, Ph.D. I. Overview The Supreme Court recently declined to hear several patent cases, thus leaving the decisions by the Federal Circuit intact. Issues that were not taken up by the Supreme Court include (1) whether…
Written by Maria Anderson and Samantha Hsu The Federal Circuit recently decided two related cases concerning media content delivery patents 1 owned by Affinity Labs of Texas, LLC. In both cases, the Federal Circuit held that the patents do not cover…
Given the volume of district court decisions regarding Section 101, I typically don't find ones that stand out enough to warrant discussion. But last week's decision by Judge Stark in MAZ Encryption Technologies LLC v. Blackberry Corporation is an…
On January 12, 2016, President Barack Obama announced his goal of a nationwide “Cancer Moonshot,” with the ultimate goal of accelerating cancer research “to end cancer as we know it” during his State of the Union Address. As a part…
“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” -- Sunset Boulevard (1950) The Supreme Court decision Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank , 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014) pronounced, in no uncertain terms, preemption “drives” patent subject…
If the UN Secretary General and the members of his “High Level Panel on Access to Medicines” thought the State Department was bluffing when it warned against their attempt to make intellectual property the fall guy for the lack of health care…
