Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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In DSS Technology Management, Inc. v. Apple Inc., [2016-2523, 2016-2524] (March 23, 2018), the Federal Circuit reversed the decision of the PTAB, finding claims 1–4 and 9–10 of U.S. Patent No. 6,128,290 obvious, because the Board failed to…
In Personal Web Technologies, LLC v. Apple, Inc., [2016-1174] (February 14, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the Board’s claim construction but vacated the Board’s obviousness determination because the Board did not adequately support its…
Last week we reported on the top 10 all-time IPR petitioners and learned that Apple, with 267 IPR challenges filed from 2012 through 2016, was at the top. This represents approximately 5 percent of all of the 5,592 IPR challenges filed through 2016. This…
In a few short years China’s patent system has gone from an IP rights wannabe to one of the most responsive and patent-friendly systems in the world. Leading U.S. IP experts say that underlying this rapid evolution is a desire for China to become a…
Aging baby boomers, exposed to a lifetime of loud music, are more demanding than past generations about the quality of what and how they hear. Don’t expect them to sit by idly watching Mick Jagger mouth the words to Satisfaction . A group of leading…
If you happen to have an iPhone 4S handy, go ahead and ask Siri about a patent lawsuit that was filed April 25, 2012, in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. If she seems uncertain, help the poor woman out by naming the plaintiff (Potter Voice…
NPEs historically get a pretty raw deal when it comes to PR, with article after article amounting against the practice of essentially turning patents into commodities. The tides have slowly been turning for companies like Intellectual Ventures (IV) and…
Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University has launched a suit alleging that Apple's use of Siri in its iPhone and future versions of its iPad infringes two U.S. patents it was granted in 2007 and 2010 that relate to voice-to-text technology. The suit…
It’s beginning to feel like a TV series, a weekly patent war drama. Apple and Samsung have consistently been going back and forth with claims of IP infringement, to the point where who is accusing who of what is exhausting to follow. The question I…
The war between Apple and Samsung reignited in late August . Apple received an injunction from a German court barring Samsung from selling its Galaxy tablet in Germany. The court agreed with Apple that Samsung’s tablet is too close in both interface…
When world economies slow down, national economies bicker with one another. Trade wars throughout history between rival economic powers often act as prologues to military conflict. In the twenty-first century, however, trade wars have a new dimension: the…
Only yesterday when I was browsing through the web, researching for something, I stumbled upon a fact which caught me flabbergasted. And it is an indictor of the pace at which the world around us is changing (read developing). I read that Google was…
