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USPTO Affirms Amgen Ruling Didn't Alter Experimentation Test
A U.S. Supreme Court decision from May will not change the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's use of a long-standing test to see when a [...]
Amgen v. Sanofi: Seven Months In, Has Anything About Patent Enablement Changed?
Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court did something strange: the Court unanimously affirmed a circuit decision, which had unanimously affirmed a trial court decision. Little [...]
Federal Circuit Affirms Mixed Rulings for Patent Owner Based on ‘Ordinary Meaning’ of Claim Phrase
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today affirmed two decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that invalidated some [...]
DLA Piper Accused Of Withholding Docs In Labor Suit
A former DLA Piper attorney told a New York federal court that the firm is improperly withholding documents in her pregnancy bias suit in a [...]
Expect National Security Scrutiny Of Higher Ed To Continue
In 2023, the federal government significantly elevated the national security responsibilities of academic communities, so universities and research laboratories should take a more rigorous approach [...]
Google Swiped Inventor's $1.6B AI Chip Design, Jury Told
A startup founder seeking $1.6 billion from Google for allegedly infringing his computing patents to boost the power of its artificial intelligence products told a [...]
Medtronic's Cautionary Tale Of Fed. Circ. Word Limits
The Federal Circuit's ruling in Medtronic v. Teleflex that Medtronic waived an argument that it had sought to incorporate by reference illustrates the pitfalls facing [...]
Pryor Cashman Names 2 Practice Co-Chairs, Promotes 9 Attys
Two high-profile partners at midsize transactional and litigation law firm Pryor Cashman LLP have been rewarded with new titles, the firm announced Tuesday. [...]
Lost Mary Vape Maker Wants To Burn Rival's TM
The maker of the popular Lost Mary disposable vapes has asked a court to nix an Emirati company's trademark for "LadyMary," arguing the company has [...]
The Year Ahead: Where Do We Stand on the USPTO’s ANPRM and the PREVAIL Act?
As we enter 2024, major policy initiatives are pending at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and in Congress aimed at overhauling certain [...]
EU Eyes Microsoft's OpenAI Stake Amid Competition Worries
The European Union antitrust authority said Tuesday that it is investigating whether Microsoft's investment of more than $10 billion in OpenAI should be reviewed under [...]
Ninth Circuit Denies Review of Decision that IPR Proceedings Do Not Trigger FCA’s Public Disclosure Bar
On January 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit published an amended opinion and order denying rehearing and rehearing en banc, thus [...]
Musician Asks Justices To Back Copyright Damages Accrual
A musician urged the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm an Eleventh Circuit decision finding he was not time-barred from recovering more damages in a copyright [...]
Judge Finds IP Asserted Against Netflix Was Sold Years Ago
A federal judge in Oakland dismissed a Finnish executive's infringement case against Netflix, finding Monday that the patent had actually been sold off in 2005 [...]
Worker Convicted Of Stealing Secrets Has No Luck At 9th Circ.
The only employee of a Santa Clara, California, chipmaker to be convicted for involvement in a scheme to steal trade secrets in order to launch a [...]
Future Apple Watch Sales Hinge On Next Steps In Patent Row
Amid Apple's patent dispute with Masimo over the Apple Watch's blood oxygen monitor, the latest models of popular devices are currently available, but Apple could [...]
Samsung Dodges Willfulness Claims Despite FRAND Setback
Samsung failed to persuade a Texas federal judge Monday that the owner of key 5G patents should be responsible for a predecessor's conduct in FRAND [...]
Proskauer Picks Up IP Partner From Frankfurt Kurnit
A former Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC partner is joining Proskauer Rose LLP's intellectual property practice, the firm announced Monday. [...]
Fed. Circ Challenges $1B Foreign Damages Claim In IBG Case
Federal Circuit judges expressed skepticism at arguments that the former CEO of Trading Technologies International Inc. is entitled to nearly $1 billion damages because IBG [...]
Samsung Gets PTAB To Invalidate IP In Fight With Ex-Attys
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that Samsung showed that all the challenged claims of a Staton Techiya network monitoring patent are invalid [...]
OpenAI Calls NYT's Suit 'A Surprise And Disappointment'
OpenAI on Monday criticized a New York Times complaint accusing the artificial intelligence company and Microsoft of infringing article copyrights to develop ChatGPT, insisting in [...]
Another 101 Bites the Dust as High Court Denies Realtime Data Petition
The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a petition asking the High Court to clarify patent eligibility jurisprudence under Section 101 since its 2014 ruling in [...]
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Last week in Delaware's court of equity, Berkshire Hathaway took the last exit in a dispute with the minority owner of Pilot truck stops, Guess [...]
Supreme Court Won't Hear Disco Bassist's Copyright Claim
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would not review an Eleventh Circuit decision that declined to revive a copyright complaint from a former bassist [...]
