Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON v. TCL CORPORATION Before NEWMAN, LOURIE, and CLEVENGER. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Publications shelved in publicly accessible libraries may be publicly available prior art references as of the…
A computer and technology policy is an important part of protecting and managing intellectual property. A business should consider establishing a policy that addresses the following points: USE OF COMPANY TECHNOLOGY The technology provided by the company,…
In Phil-Insul , collateral estoppel precludes IntegraSpec from ‎relitigating claim construction in a ‎second case involving a ‎different defendant, different claims and “somewhat” ‎different accused ‎products. In Rembrandt…
Written by Peter Heuser, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt The Circuit grants a rehearing and revises its decision in ‎ Asetek to vacate the ‎overly broad portion of an injunction. ‎In ‎ Wasica , the Circuit refuses to permit a party to present…
With its seminal patents and continual patent enforcement activity, hybrid vehicle technology company Paice has been a frequent subject of discussion in this space. In fact, my first post almost ten years ago was about the company’s litigation with…
Written by Hyeongsu Rick Park and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) terminated a patent interference proceeding between the University of California (UC) and the Broad Institute (Broad), a joint venture of Harvard University…
Yesterday, the PTAB in interference 106,048 issued a short order finding no interference- in- fact between the claims of 12 Broad Institute patents (US Patent Number 8,697,359 et al.) and the application held by The Regents of the University of California…
As the patent wars rage on between Apple and Samsung, with the two jostling for top spot in the smartphone and tablet industries. A U.S. appeals court ruled that Apple Inc could press its bid for an immediate injunction to block the sale of some tablet…
Google claims the patent system is broken. That’s the latest news following the company’s failed attempt to purchase Nortel patents at auction. The latest statement from Google’s legal team is either an example of Google calling it like…
“Analysts are beginning to get concerned about a patent price bubble forming, where the amount of money a company, or indeed an individual investor, will pay for an intellectual property (IP) portfolio rockets out of all proportion to what it's…
More than ever, patents are big business. And more than ever, there are business that are exclusively concerned with patents. The polite term is “non-manufacturing entities”, or NMEs. The less polite term is “patent trolls” -- the…
The Patent Board Semiconductors industry scorecard, which ranks 240 companies, has ranked Micron Technology first in the Science Strength category and fifth in the Technology Strength category. Micron Technology manufactures DRAM, NAND, and NOR flash…
