Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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You have probably thought that in a copyright case you will see a book or song writer, or another form of art author, but check this case where the elements of GUI were protected by copyright leading to a lawsuit filed by Apple. It all begun since…
During the Winter Olympics 2022 which took place from Feb. 4-22 in Beijing, China, two figure skaters along with NBC got sued over using a song during their performance without the artists permission. Robert and Aron Marderosian who are also known as the…
Tomorrow we will release our third annual ITC Intelligence Report. We estimate that the ITC Section 337 market is around $750M to $1B per year. This growing market has encouraged many law firms to compete for ITC attorneys. We identified 91 lateral moves…
Computers nowadays can produce music, poems as well as paint, sometimes even better than humans and all of the above qualifies as copyrightable material. But can it be copyrighted if it’s made from AI? Back in 2018 there was a case which was brought…
Just yesterday Cartier filed a lawsuit in a New York state court in Manhattan where it accuses its luxury rival Tiffany & Co of stealing trade secrets. Back in December, Tiffany had hired an employee that previously worked under Cartier despite the…
Just this Monday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the DC order which dismissed the Alabama Aircraft Industries claims of trade secret misappropriation. According to the decision, the lower court erred in their decision that the…
Last Thursday we released our second annual Patent Litigation Intelligence Report where we analyzed the patent litigation activity for a 4-year period from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2021. We provided high-level statistics for 14,506 district court…
The ITC proceedings have been around sine 1930 with their creation under the Tariff Act, however they have been extremely popular in the last two decades. While not being a court under Article III of U.S. Constitution, still the ITC is authorized to…
You have probably heard a lot about NFTs lately, but what are they indeed? Non-fungible token many might answer, but this still doesn’t make you understand what they represent. Fungible items have no difference between them, think of a bitcoin for…
During October 2020, Playboy filed a lawsuit against Fashion Nova over a Halloween costume which looked copied from the iconic Playboy costume. Not only the costumes looked very similar with details such as cuffs, collar, corset, bunny ears and even the…
Last week, we released the top 10 patent owners whose patents had been challenged the most since the inception of Inter-Partes Review (IPR). Zond ranked first with a total of 125 IPR challenges filed against ten of its patents. This week, our Data Science…
In last couple of weeks we reported that Apple, with 267 IPR challenges filed since 2012, has been at the top, responsible for almost 5 percent of all challenges filed. This week, we decided to review the company’s cases and see who has been winning…
