Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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Written by : Ian W. Gillies In an earlier post , we discussed the high-profile dispute between the estate of the late artist Prince and Patty Apollonia Kotero, over trademark rights derived from the name Apollonia, made famous in the 1984 film…
Written by : Douglas B. Wentzel and Alex Martin del Campo DEFINITIVE HOLDINGS, LLC v. POWERTEQ LLC Before Moore, Dyk, and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Utah. Summary: A third-party sale of a product embodying…
Written by : Mark Kachner and Kimberly M. Papadantonakis, Ph.D. VLSI TECHNOLOGY LLC v. INTEL CORP. Before Moore , Chen, and Kleeh. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary : The Federal Circuit reversed…
Written by : Ben K. Shiroma and Tyler S. Cox INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICES, INC. v. CORNELL Before Dyk , Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Summary : The Federal Circuit held under CUTSA…
Written by : Jeremiah S. Helm, Ph.D. ASCENDIS PHARMA A/S v. BIOMARIN PHARMACEUTICAL INC. Before Lourie, Chen, and Stoll . Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary : A respondent in an ITC proceeding may…
Written by : Ari Feinstein and Cesar A. Estrada IRONSOURCE LTD. v. DIGITAL TURBINE, INC. Before Moore , Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : An appellant seeking to establish Article III standing based on an…
Written by : Josue A. Villalta Key Takeaway: The NRC's proposed streamlined DOE/DOD reactor licensing pathway includes public disclosure obligations that can constitute prior art to later filed patent applications, and that raise potential inventorship…
Written by : Eric Furman, Ph.D. and Alistair J. McIntyre Key Takeaways : Interference proceedings, though increasingly rare, are heavily evidence-based and determine which party is the first inventor when two or more applicants claim the same patentable…
Written by : Sameer Khan Key Takeaway : A startup in satellite energy transmission emerged from stealth with an oversubscribed seed round of $10 million. Investors and developers of energy technologies can benefit from proactive IP protection efforts.…
Written by : Daniel Kiang Richard Gramm, et al. v. Deere & Company Before Lourie, Reyna , and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Summary : Disclosure of an additional function in the specification…
CASE OF THE WEEK Apple Inc. v. ITC , Appeal No. 2024-1285 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 19, 2026) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit upheld a major ruling from the International Trade Commission against Apple Inc. in its patent dispute with Masimo Corporation,…
Written by : Ian W. Gillies and Eric R. Blosser Key Takeaway : Due to the unique release of the Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin , a federal district court in the Second Circuit has ruled that the album and its music could qualify as a trade…
