Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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In Merck v. Hospira , the only precedential case decided this week, a majority of the panel affirms a determination of obviousness, noting that despite the objective indicia supporting patentability, the claimed process was substantially described in the…
Written by Peter E. Heuser , Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. In Smart Systems v. Chicago Transit Authority , the Circuit affirms the dismissal of a case based on §101, agreeing with the district court that two patents to a system for using a…
Written by Joe Jennings Editors: John Sganga , Joe Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind Judgments and Awards On August 31, 2017, a jury in the Northern District of Texas returned a verdict of patent infringement in favor iLife and against Nintendo. The case went to…
Written by Alison M. Hill and Karen M. Cassidy Editors: Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind Patent Judgments and Awards On August 7, 2017, after nearly two-and-a-half years of litigation, an East Texas jury awarded just over $21,000,000 to Elbit Systems of…
Written by Alison M. Hill and Karen M. Cassidy Editors: Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind Patent Judgments and Awards On August 4, 2017, after five-and-a-half years of litigation over patent infringement, a Federal Claims judge ordered the United States…
Written by Alison M. Hill and Karen M. Cassidy Editors: Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind Patent Judgments and Awards On July 14, 2017, the International Trade Commission determined that financial services company Diebold Nixdorf, Inc.…
Written by Caleb A. Bates, Ph.D. and Michael L. Fuller In March 2014, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. sued Merus B.V. for allegedly infringing U.S. Patent No. 8,502,018 (“the ’018 Patent"). The ’018 Patent generally relates to using…
Written by Daniel Kiang and Marko R. Zoretic Editors: Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind Patent Judgments and Awards On August 3, 2017, a Boston jury awarded Philips $10.4 million in damages for ZOLL’s infringement of three patents relating to…
Written by Daniel Kiang and Marko R. Zoretic Editors: Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind Patent Judgments and Awards On July 26, 2017, after eight years of litigation and multiple appeals, a Texas federal court ordered ION Geophysical Corporation…
Patent Judgments and Awards Written by Baraa Kahf and Kendall Loebbaka Edited by John Sganga , Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind The University of Florida obtained patents covering new varieties of blueberry plants that can be grown in warmer climates.…
Patent Judgments and Awards Written by Baraa Kahf and Kendall Loebbaka Edited by John Sganga , Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind On July 25, 2017, a federal court in Wisconsin ordered Apple to pay a whopping $506 million for infringement of a patent on…
Written by Mark Speegle and Sean Murray Edited by John Sganga , Joe Cianfrani , and Boris Zelkind In a final judgment dated July 19, 2017, a Florida federal court awarded treble damages to Omega Patents, a non-practicing patent licensing entity, for the…
