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Patexia Insight 103: Patent Litigation Up 24 Percent in Q1 of 2021
The first quarter of 2021 just ended but several recent trials in Waco, Texas including the famous VLSI Technology vs. Intel, which resulted in a $2.18B verdict, garnered all the...
Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases
CASE OF THE WEEK Wi-LAN Inc. v. Sharp Electronics Corporation, Appeal Nos. 2020-1041, -1043 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 6, 2021) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit...
The first quarter of 2021 just ended but several recent trials in Waco, Texas including the famous VLSI Technology vs. Intel, which resulted in a $2.18B verdict... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
Wi-LAN Inc. v. Sharp Electronics Corporation, Appeal Nos. 2020-1041, -1043 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 6, 2021)
In this week’s Case of the Week... Read More »
The United Nations considered intellectual property rights to be “like any other property right.” In fact, Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of... Read More »
As of 2021, more than twice the number of data breaches are now being reported than 6 years ago and three times the number of data breaches that occurred in 2010... Read More »
APPLE, INC. v. QUALCOMM, INC.
Before Moore, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: Apple lacked standing to appeal an IPR... Read More »
It is extremely important not to publicly disclose your invention, for example by including details on your website, before you’ve filed a patent application... Read More »
WI-LAN INC. v. SHARP ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Before Dyk, Taranto, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware... Read More »
Wise words! Innovation is the greatest thing humanity has achieved but if we don’t protect it, there will be less innovation and less people interested in it... Read More »
Last month we released our second annual ITC Intelligence Report. This popular report evaluated and ranked all stakeholders in ITC investigations including attorneys, ... Read More »
Are Continuation Patents Still Viable After a Parent is Cancelled?
Patent families are formed of multiple continuation/divisional filings stemming from the same... Read More »
Joinder Estoppel Revisited
A few weeks back, the federal Circuit handed down a decision in Uniloc 2017 LLC v. Facebook Inc, capping off a complicated procedural... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
In Re: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Appeal No. 2020-1288 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 25, 2021)
The Federal Circuit issued... Read More »
IN RE: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
Before Prost, Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board... Read More »
On February 26, 2021, Judge James Donato of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of a proposed $650 million... Read More »
APA Challenge Strikes a Chord
I’ve read a number of articles over the past few days that argue since the mandamus on Fintiv failed in Mylan Laboratories... Read More »
Tomorrow we are releasing our second annual ITC Intelligence Report. This popular report, reviews 335 ITC investigations filed between January 1, 2015 and December... Read More »
DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC. v. VETERINARY ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT, INC.
Before Prost, Clevenger, and Dyk. Appeal from the Middle District of Florida. ... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
Uniloc 2017 LLC v. Facebook Inc., Appeal Nos. 2019-1688, -1689 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 9, 2021)
In this week’s Case of the Week, Uniloc... Read More »
MYLAN LABS. LTD. v. JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA, N.V.
Before Newman, Moore, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The Federal... Read More »
Defendants in US civil suits have sought to withhold discoverable material because of privacy concerns based on foreign laws, such as the GDPR. Almost all cases on... Read More »
