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Written by Jeffrey C. Wu, Ph.D. and Ben J. Everton The Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari to address whether inter partes review – an adversarial process used by the Patent Office to determine the validity of existing patents…
Monday, in a unanimous opinion (Goresuch did not participate), the Supreme Court interpreted the patent venue statute (28 USC s. 1400(b)) to require that the phrase “where the defendant resides” be limited to the defendant’s state of…
Written by Nathanael Luman, Ph.D. and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D. The Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari to address whether the PTAB is required to issue a final written decision with respect to the patentability of every claim challenged…
In TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, [16–341] (May 22, 2017), the Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and held that for purposes of the patent venue statute (28 U.S.C. 1400(b)), a corporation only resides where it is…
Written by Jeffrey C. Wu, Ph.D. and Brenden S. Gingrich, Ph.D. I. Summary The Supreme Court in Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. held that providing a single component of a multicomponent invention for manufacture abroad does not give rise to patent…
Obvious Combinations Do Not Need to Be Physically Combinable In Allied Erecting and Dismantling Co., Inc. v. Genesis Attachments, LLC , Appeal No. 2015-1533, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s invalidity finding based on obviousness. Genesis…
Does a party who ‘actively induces infringement of a patent’ under 35 U.S.C. §271(b) have to know as a fact that the actions in question support patent infringement? The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in 2010 to Global-Tech…
When we think of patent law, we often think of technology, engineering, and intellectual property. Rarely do we think of living organisms. In 1980, however, the Supreme Court ruled that man-made organisms could be patented by the scientists who created…
