Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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A couple of weeks ago, we released our third ITC Intelligence Report that covered 370 ITC investigations filed under Section 337 between January 1, 2016, through December 31, 2021. The report provided high-level statistics based on these cases as well as…
CASE OF THE WEEK Littelfuse, Inc. v. Mersen USA EP Corp. , Appeal No. 2021-2013 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 4, 2022)‎ Our Case of the Week focuses on the issue of claim construction, and, more specifically, the doctrine ‎of claim differentiation. ‎ The…
CASE OF THE WEEK Genuine Enabling Technology LLC v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. , Appeal No. 2020-2167 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 1, 2022) ‎ The Federal Circuit’s only precedential patent opinion this week turned on issues of claim ‎construction. In particular,…
Last month we published our 2nd Patent Litigation Intelligence Report. We evaluated more than 14000 patent litigators who were active during a 4-year period from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2021. In previous weeks, we provided some statistics and also…
CASE OF THE WEEK Hunting Titan, Inc. v. DynaEnergetics Europe GMBH , Appeal Nos. 2020-2163, -2191 (Fed. Cir. March 24, 2022) In a notable review of the USPTO’s new Precedential Opinions Panel, the Federal Circuit discussed the circumstances under…
CASE OF THE WEEK BASF Plant Sci., LP v. Commonw. Scientific and Indus. Research Org. , Appeal Nos. 2020-1415, -1416, -1919, -1920 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 15, 2022) Our Case of the Week, an appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,…
Last month we published our 2022 Patent Litigation Report. We evaluated 14,685 attorneys and 3,050 firms that were active in at least one of the 14,506 district court patent cases filed from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2021. We identified 2,161 firms…
CASE OF THE WEEK In re: Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and In re: Hyundai Motor America , Appeal Nos. 2022-108, -109 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 9, 2022) In the most recent of multiple mandamus rulings issued by the Federal Circuit in relation to Western District…
Last month we released the second edition of our Patent Litigation Intelligence Report, a study that covered 14,506 patent cases filed over the last four years, from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2021. As per our tradition, we examine and provide…
It is known that not all patents make enough money to maintain their protection, actually the numbers show that the majority of them end up making less. This makes some people question the patent concept and say that patents are worthless? Are they?…
CASE OF THE WEEK Alarm.com Inc. v. Hirshfeld , Appeal No. 2020-2102 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 24, 2022) In an appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Federal Circuit addressed whether the ex parte reexamination statutory scheme…
Earlier in February we released our Patent Litigation Report (2022 Edition) that covers the patent litigation activity during the past 4 years, from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2021. In this report we analyze high level statistics based on all 14,506…
