Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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Written by : Rory R. Lootsma Sacral neuromodulation stimulates nerves above the tailbone to treat fetal incontinence and related bowel and bladder control issues. After California-based Axonics Inc. (“Axonics”) entered the sacral…
Written by : Hyunjin (Harry) Park & Kendall Loebbaka Trinity Info Media, L.L.C. v. Covalent INC. Before STOLL, BRYSON, and CUNNINGHAM . Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Summary : Patents directed to…
Written by : Logan P. Young & Kendall Loebbaka SNIPR Technologies Ltd v. Rockefeller University Before Chen , Wallach, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : Patents whose priority is…
Written by : Zachary B. Messick & Brenden S. Gingrich, Ph.D. As retailers or distributors that are not manufacturers of a product, companies may believe they cannot infringe a patent claiming how the product is made. After all, the retailers or…
CASE OF THE WEEK Inguran, LLC v. ABS Global, Inc. , Appeal No. 2022-1385 (Fed. Cir. July 5, 2023) In its only precedential patent opinion this week, the Federal Circuit held that a lawsuit was not precluded by res judicata based on an earlier judgment. The…
Written by : Cesar A. Estrada & Jeremy Anapol INGURAN, LLC, DBA STGENETICS v. ABS GLOBAL, INC., GENUS PLC Before Lourie, Bryson, and Reyna . Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Summary: Claim preclusion does…
Written by : Jamie E. Youngblood & A lex Martin del Campo BLUE GENTIAN, LLC v. TRISTAR PRODUCTS, INC Before Prost , Chen, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Summary: Alleged joint inventor contributed…
Written by : Brian C. Barnes & Karen Cassidy Selvaggio PARUS HOLDINGS, INC. V. GOOGLE LLC Before Lourie , Bryson, and Reyna. Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : PTAB did not err in declining…
CASE OF THE WEEK Yita LLC v. MacNeil IP LLC , Appeal Nos. 2022-1373, -1374 (Fed. Cir. June 6, 2023) In appeals from two inter partes reviews before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the Board) on related patents, the Federal Circuit affirmed the…
Written by : Rhett D. Ramsey & Michael L. Fuller In Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharm. Inc., Case No. 2021-1981, the Federal Circuit reversed an obviousness determination by the PTAB. At issue was Sanofi’s reissued U.S. Patent No.…
Written by : Nima Zargari, Ph.D. & Nathan D. Reeves YITA LLC V. MACNEIL IP LLC Before Taranto , Chen, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : Evidence of commercial success that relates entirely to an individual claim element…
MEDTRONIC, INC. v. TELEFLEX INNOVATIONS Before Moore , Lourie, and Dyk. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : A close prima facie case of obviousness can be overcome by strong evidence of objective indicia of non-obviousness. Medtronic…
