Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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SIMO HOLDINGS INC. v. HONG KONG UCLOUDLINK NETWORK Before O’Malley, Wallach, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Summary: A claim construction that excludes an embodiment disclosed in the…
ALACRITECH, INC. V. INTEL CORP., CAVIUM, LLC, DELL, INC. Before Stoll, Chen, and Moore. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The PTAB’s obviousness determination must meet the Administrative Procedure Act’s requirements to be…
Written by : Aaron S. Johnson & Adam Powell CIENA CORPORATION v. OYSTER OPTICS, LLC Before Moore, O’Malley, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Affirmatively petitioning for IPR waives the petitioner’s…
KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V. v. GEMALTO M2M GMBH Before Dyk, Chen, and Stoll. Appeal from the District of Delaware. Summary: Claims directed to improving the functionality of one tool that is part of a system do not necessarily need to recite how that tool is…
A federal court in Wisconsin recently awarded Ultratec, Inc. and Captel, Inc. more than $5.4 million in damages, based on a patent infringement claim brought against Sorenson Communications and CaptionCalls. The patent is directed toward technology to…
BRADIUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC V. ANDREI IANCU Before Moore, Reyna , and Chen. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: A clear and unambiguous definition of a claim term is required to redefine the term to mean something other than its plain and…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Newman, O’Malley , and Chen. Appeal from the PTAB. Summary : Patent Owner Vertnetx Inc. (“Virnetx”) was collaterally estopped from arguing that a reference was not a printed publication because the Federal…
Federal Circuit Summary Before O’Malley , Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : While obviousness of apparatus claims “capable of” a particular function may be shown by identifying a prior art…
Patent Judgments & Awards In April 2018, a jury in the Eastern District of Texas awarded VirnetX Inc. (“VirnetX”) a total of more than $500,000,000 in its patent infringement suit against Apple Inc. (“Apple”). The four…
On March 22, 2018, a Texas federal court awarded patent infringement damages totaling over $8 million and ongoing royalties in a case involving multiple patents related to voice over IP technology. The damages award is based on a jury trial that was…
