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THALER V. VIDAL Before Moore, Taranto, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Summary: Under the Patent Act , an...
Amidst growing concerns that China is eclipsing the U.S. with R&D and patents in emerging new technologies, the Chairman of the Senate ... Read More »
THALER V. VIDAL
Before Moore, Taranto, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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CASE OF THE WEEK
Thaler v. Vidal, Appeal No. 2021-2347
In its only precedential patent decision this week, the Federal Circuit... Read More »
On July 29, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Notice by Director Kathy Vidal that may be relevant to... Read More »
Earlier in April, we published our fourth annual Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report. The report was our first attempt to rank patent attorneys... Read More »
Earlier this year in February, Patexia released its second annual Patent Litigation Intelligence Report covering a 4-year period from July ... Read More »
The verdict was affirmed just last month but the history of this case goes back to 2009. Orange Bang sued Vital Pharmaceuticals because... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Netflix, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2021-1484, -1485, -1518, -1519 (Fed. Cir. July 27, 2022)
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REALTIME ADAPTIVE STREAMING LLC v. NETFLIX INC.
Before: Newman, Reyna, and Chen. Appeal from the Central District of California... Read More »
Just the week before, Sonrai Memory filed several patent infringement lawsuits targeting a group of tech companies, including Google... Read More »
Earlier this month, we published some of the best trademark prosecution law firms (Patexia 143) based on the performance and activity data from our ... Read More »
In early 1983, Bolar Pharmaceutical Inc. wanted to bring a generic version of the Dalmane drug, a sleeping pill, to the market. At that... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2022-1027, -1028 (Fed. Cir. July 18, 2022)
In its only precedential... Read More »
AliveCor, Inc., a company focused on cardiac data and remote medicine, successfully convinced an International Trade Commission (ITC)... Read More »
Two weeks ago, Curevac filed a lawsuit in the German Regional Court in Düsseldorf against BioNTech over patent infringement alleging... Read More »
In late June, we published some of the best performing and most active patent law firms (Patexia Insight 142) based on the data of our Fourth... Read More »
CAREDX, INC. V. NATERA, INC.
Before Lourie, Bryson, and Hughes
Summary: Expert testimony that steps of challenged patent claims... Read More »
A medical device patentee has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to save his design patent, related to an introducer sheath handle, from invalidity based ... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
LG Electronics Inc. v. Immervision, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2021-2037, -2038 (Fed. Cir. 2022)
In this week’s... Read More »
The second quarter of 2022 is over and despite many economists suggesting that a recession is likely, the number of patent litigation remained... Read More »
