Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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Written by Rebecca L. Wright, Ph.D. and Nathanael Luman, Ph.D. The Federal Circuit issued an en banc decision instructing the PTAB to assess patentability of amended claims in IPR proceedings without placing the burden of persuasion on the patent owner.…
Written by Benjamin Anger and Mark Rubinshtein, Ph.D. A magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Texas recommended in Network-1 Technologies, Inc. v. Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. Case No. 6:11-cv-492 (E.D.Tex. September 25, 2017) that Hewlett-Packard…
Written by Ben J. Everton and David T. Kim The PTAB denied institution of Covered Business Method (CBM) Review, finding that the parties’ license agreement and covenant not to sue removed any “imminent” threat of an infringement suit.…
Written by Benjamin Anger and David T. Kim The PTAB’s Chief Administrative Patent Judge and Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge joined an expanded PTAB panel that adopted the seven NVIDIA factors and denied institution of the Petitioner’s…
Written by Peter Law and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D. September 16, 2017 marked five years since the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) was created. Some of the notable statistics and trends of the previous 5 years are shown here. As of September 18, 2017,…
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 Jeremy Anapol and Michael L. Fuller Courts increasingly rely on analogies to show that claims are not directed to patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. For example, in Context Extraction and Transmission v. Wells Fargo Bank,…
Written by Mark Kachner and Daniel P. Hughes Editors: John Sganga , Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind Judgments and Awards On August 11, 2017 a northern California federal court permanently enjoined Sealant Systems Int’l (SSI) from selling tire…
Written by Mark Kachner and Daniel P. Hughes Editors: John Sganga , Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind Judgments and Awards On August 15, 2017, a federal court in Illinois resolved a damages and fees dispute in a patent infringement case that had raged for…
Written by Mark Kachner and Daniel P. Hughes Editors: John Sganga , Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind Judgments and Awards On August 11, 2017, a Los Angeles jury found that Zazzle, Inc (“Zazzle”) owed Greg Young Publishing Inc.…
Written by Mark Kachner and Daniel P. Hughes Editors: John Sganga , Joseph Cianfrani and Boris Zelkind Judgments and Awards On August 14, 2017, a New York federal court determined that Tiffany and Company and its affiliate (“Tiffany”) were…
Written by Rebecca L. Wright, Ph.D. and Ian W. Gillies Edited by Loni Morrow and Catherine Holland Newcomer to the luxury cosmetics marketplace, Tatcha LLC (“Tatcha”), recently made a splash by filing a trade dress infringement lawsuit in the…
