Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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A patent is a legal form of protection granted to inventors for their unique and useful ideas, designs, or products. It gives the patent owner exclusive rights to prevent others from making, using, or selling the patented invention for a certain period of…
CASE OF THE WEEK Personalized Media Communications, LLC v. Apple, Inc. , Appeal No. 2021-2275 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 20, 2023) Our Case of the Week focuses on the doctrine of prosecution laches. Following a bench trial on the issue held shortly after the Federal…
Next week, our Patent Litigation Intelligence Report will be released. The report covers the five-year period from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2022, and reviews 18,493 district court patent cases. It evaluates all parties and their representatives. As…
Patent litigation, the process of taking legal action over alleged infringement of a patent, can have a significant impact on innovation. Patents are intended to provide inventors with the exclusive right to make, use, and sell their inventions for a…
If you have been accused of infringing on a patent, you may be able to avoid liability by raising one of the following common defenses: The patent is invalid because it is not novel or non-obvious: This defense asserts that the invention claimed in the…
CASE OF THE WEEK Dionex Softron GmbH v. Agilent Techs. , Inc., Appeal No. 21-2372 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 6, 2023) This week’s Case of the Week, the only precedential patent opinion issued by the Federal Circuit this week, focused primarily on the…
Later this month, we will be publishing our Patent Litigation Report, the third in an annual series covering patent litigation in US district courts. This report, which is the first of eight or possibly nine reports planned for 2023, focuses on the period…
Whenever there are discussions related to patent law and amendments, many are concerned with each proposal's impacts, advantages, and disadvantages in choosing the best available approach. As covered in Patexia 122 , the past decade saw new levels of…
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…
A little over a week ago, a lawsuit was filed against Twitter by Virtual Creative Artists LLC (VCU) in the Northern District of Illinois. In the complaint, the plaintiff mentions patent No. 9,501,480 , which the USPTO issued on Nov., 22, 2016, titled…
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…
