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Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases
CASE OF THE WEEK Chemours Company FC, LLC v. Daikin Industries, Ltd., Appeal Nos. 2020-1289, -1290 (Fed. Cir. July 22, 2021) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal...
3 Steps for an Effective Copyright Protection
One of the basic principles of the Berne Convention is that of “automatic protection”, which means that copyright protection exists automatically from the time a qualifying ...
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Patent litigation remained strong in the second quarter of 2021. District court litigation, in particular, increased 11% in Q2 compared to Q1. Inter-Partes Review... Read More »
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 »
UNILOC 2017 LLC v. FACEBOOK INC.
Before Lourie, Wallach, and Chen. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) ... Read More »
Earlier this year, we reviewed the sharp increase in patent litigation in 2020 (Patexia Insight 96). District Court patent cases rose 17 percent in 2020 compared to... Read More »
Update: Thanks to one of our readers who discovered an error in our ITC numbers for Q3. We have already updated the article with the correct data.
The third... Read More »
NETWORK-1 TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY
Before Prost, Newman, and Bryson. Appeal from the United States... Read More »
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Earlier this month we released our 2020 IPR... Read More »
ALACRITECH, INC. V. INTEL CORP., CAVIUM, LLC, DELL, INC.
Before Stoll, Chen, and Moore. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The... Read More »
ESIP SERIES 2, LLC V. PUZHEN LIFE USA, LLC
Before Reyna, Lourie, and Hughes. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The PTAB’s... Read More »
Running a profitable patent prosecution practice has become more challenging in recent years. The recession triggered by the current pandemic is going to make this... Read More »
GOLDEN v. U.S.
Before O’Malley, Mayer, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims.
Summary: (1) Patent infringement claims ... Read More »
CAFC Decision Moots Some POP Consideration in Hunting Titan Dispute
Last November, the PTAB ordered Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) review of the final written... Read More »
Invalidity Counterclaims-In-Reply Will Not Trigger 35 U.S.C. § 315(a)
Congress created IPR to provide a “quick and cost effective alternative[ ] to... Read More »
The Fed. Cir. panel decision in Samsung Elec. Amer., Inc. v. Prisua Engineering Corp., Appeal No. 2019-1169, 2019-1260 (Fed. Cir., Feb. 4, 2020) flew under my... Read More »
Earlier this year, we analyzed the 2019 patent activities in Patexia Insight 74. Among our observations, we noticed a sharp decline in the number of IPR petitions... Read More »
Written by: Eric Malmgren & Hans L. Mayer
APPLE INC. v. ANDREA ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Before Dyk, Plager, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial... Read More »
Happy New Year! This morning, we released our first ITC Intelligence Report, where we looked at more than 7,000 attorneys, 400 law firms and 1,600 companies, measured ... Read More »
Reasonably Could Have Raised & Reasonably Diligent
Prior to last year’s SAS decision, district courts split over whether non-petitioned grounds were... Read More »
In Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., Appeal No. 2018-2140 (Fed. Cir., Oct. 31, 2019), a three Judge Fed. Cir. panel of Moore, Reyna and Chen took a deep dive ... Read More »
A few weeks ago, we released our 3rd Annual IPR Intelligence Report. Several companies asked us to further explain how to use the Excel file came with the report for... Read More »
