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Launching Your Startup? Consider Your Costs
You’re embarking on a new business venture with a strong business plan. That's exciting. A strong business plan can guide your business, define business goals, [...]
Amici Spar Over Proper Bounds of Agency Rulemaking for NHK/Fintiv Framework
Last week, intellectual property (IP) law advocates against agency overreach became the latest to file an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for [...]
Only Congressional Patent Reform Can Restore Constitutional Rights
Encouraged and abetted by free riders who would benefit unfairly from others’ work, well-intentioned lawmakers and judicial activists have compromised the U.S. patent system, threatening [...]
Legislation Most Likely To Pass In Lame Duck Session
As Congress begins its five-week post-election lame duck session, attorneys at Greenberg Traurig break down the legislative priorities and which proposals can be expected to [...]
Shooting from the Hip: The CAFC’S Sua Sponte Interpretation of ETSI’s IPR Licensing Declaration
A recent decision in the matter of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Ericsson AB, Ericsson, Incl. v. Lenovo (United States), Inc. et. al., saw the United States [...]
ParkerVision is Latest to Petition SCOTUS for Review of CAFC’s ‘Heavy Reliance’ on Rule 36
ParkerVision, Inc. has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, docketed on Thursday, November 7, with the United States Supreme Court, presenting the question of [...]
Apple Didn't Hire Cercacor CTO To Steal Watch IP, Ex-VP Says
A retired Apple executive defended the tech giant Friday in Masimo's trade secret suit over pulse oximetry technology, testifying in California federal court that Apple [...]
Justices Urged To Review Fed. Circ.'s 1-Word PTAB Decisions
The U.S. Supreme Court must reckon with the Federal Circuit's "disconcerting pattern" of affirming decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board with one-word orders, [...]
PPG Seeks $23M Fees In Sherwin-Williams Coating IP Suit
PPG Industries told a Pennsylvania federal judge Friday that Sherwin-Williams should pay it $23 million in attorney fees after the Federal Circuit backed a jury's [...]
Other Barks & Bites for Friday, November 8: Judge Dismisses Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI Filed by News Outlets; Reports Finds Record Number of Global Patent Filings; ITC Finds Semiconductor Company Infringed on Competitor’s Patent
This week in Other Barks & Bites: a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) report finds global patent filings at a record high with China leading [...]
Fed. Circ. Backs Invalidation Of Geolocation IP Under Alice
The Federal Circuit won't breathe new life into GeoComply's infringement suit against its geolocation competitor XPoint over an anti-location-spoofing patent, affirming a lower court's dismissal. [...]
Fed. Circ. Unclear If Teva Inhaler IP Belongs In Orange Book
A trio of Federal Circuit judges took a complex question tied to whether Teva should be able to include inhaler patents in the U.S. Food [...]
BREAKING: Biden Announces SDNY Judicial Pick As Lame Duck Kicks Off
President Joe Biden announced on Friday night judicial nominees for the Southern District of New York and Guam. [...]
Facts In Emails Aren't Confidential For Deposition, Judge Says
A government contractor implicated in allegations that the U.S. infringed patents for contactless data carriers must turn over portions of a former employee's emails because [...]
Ex-Elanco IP Lawyer Lodges Gender Discrimination Suit
A female former in-house intellectual property lawyer at Elanco Animal Health Inc. sued the pharmaceutical company for gender discrimination in Indiana federal court, alleging she [...]
Chancery Tosses Microchip Co.'s Tech Licensor Challenge
A Delaware vice chancellor on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Swiss microchip maker u-blox AG against tech licensor InterDigital Inc., finding among other points [...]
Justices Urged To Review Amazon Patent Program Case
A company alleging patent infringement through Amazon's patent evaluation program is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up its appeal of a Federal Circuit [...]
News Sites Strike Out in Case Against OpenAI in New York Court
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday, November 7, dismissed a copyright infringement complaint filed by Raw Story Media [...]
White & Case Adds Life Sciences IP Atty From A&O Shearman
A veteran life sciences patent litigator has jumped from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling to White & Case LLP in New York, expanding the firm’s capabilities [...]
Logan Paul's Drink Co. Blasts Olympic Committee's TM Suit
Prime Hydration, a sports beverage company co-founded by social media influencer and wrestler Logan Paul, has struck back at a trademark infringement complaint from the [...]
New Patent Filings Hit Global Record, WIPO Says
A new report from the World Intellectual Property Organization has found that new patent filings worldwide reached a record high in 2023, as patent applications [...]
Disney Hit With Patent Suit Over Streaming Media Patents
The Walt Disney Co. and subsidiaries like Hulu and ESPN have been hit with a federal lawsuit claiming that the entertainment giant's various streaming services [...]
AI Music Platform Suits Raise Copyright Protection Questions
If recent lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against two artificial intelligence music platform developers — who maintain that use of copyrighted [...]
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen collapsed German airline Air Berlin take action against its former auditor KPMG, the associate editor at The Spectator [...]
