Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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Federal Circuit Summary Before Moore , O’Malley, and Wallach. Appeal from the Eastern District of Texas (Judge Gilstrap). Summary : Claims directed to summarizing and presenting information on display interfaces for electronic devices are patent…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Dyk , Schall, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : Final written decisions by an administrative tribunal invalidating a patent can have a preclusive effect. MaxLinear filed an IPR petition on…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Newman, Dyk , and O’Malley. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : The PTAB may enter an adverse judgment against a patent owner where, before issuing an institution decision on an IPR petition, the…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Prost , Renya, and Wallach. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : A patent owner cannot retroactively bring a continuation-in-part patent within the scope of § 121 during reexamination by removing the…
On December 4, 2017 Galatea Jewelry (“Galatea” or “Plaintiff”) filed a copyright infringement suit in the District Court for the Central District of California against the well-known crystal jewelry producer and retailer Swarovski…
The Supreme Court is taking another patent case, granting certiorari in WesternGeco v. Ion . A divided panel of the Circuit had ruled that the plaintiff was not entitled to lost profits as a result of the sale of components of a patented invention from the…
On December 19, 2017, a seven-judge expanded PTAB panel ruled that the University of Minnesota (UM) waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity defense when it filed a patent infringement action in federal district court. Eleventh Amendment immunity had been…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Wallach, Chen, and Stoll . Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. Summary : Reexaminations of patents confirming validity are not dispositive of validity in district court. Furthermore, in…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Newman, O’Malley, and Reyna . Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Summary : A co-inventor did not transfer ownership interests in a patent under a California employment…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Dyk , Linn, and Hughes. Appeal from the Northern District of California. Summary : Claims directed to behavior-based virus scanning, as opposed to the traditional code-matching method, constituted a patent-eligible…
Federal Circuit Summary En banc, Reyna . Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : The Federal Circuit can review the Board’s decision whether an IPR is time barred under § 315(b). In 2010, Ericsson filed a complaint for patent…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Dyk, Reyna, and Wallach . Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : Extrinsic evidence can be used to find that an allegedly anticipating reference necessarily includes relevant claim limitations. E.I. DuPont…
