District Court Abused Discretion in Ignoring Federal Circuit Mandate to Reconsider Attorneys’ Fees Under Octane Fitness -
In Adjustacam, LLC v. Newegg, Inc., Appeal No. 2016-1882, the Federal Circuit held that a district...more
9/15/2017
/ Abuse of Discretion ,
Adverse Inference Instructions ,
Appeals ,
Attorney's Fees ,
Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard ,
Damages ,
Discovery ,
Discovery Disputes ,
Document Productions ,
Exceptional Case ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Judicial Mandates ,
Means-Plus-Function ,
Motion to Compel ,
Obviousness ,
Octane Fitness v. ICON ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Reaffirmation ,
Remand ,
Reversal ,
Sanctions ,
Standard of Review ,
Totality of Circumstances Test ,
USPTO ,
Willful Misconduct
Under O2 Micro, a District Court Must Provide a Claim Construction if the Parties Dispute the Meaning of a Claim Term -
In Eon Corp. IP Holdings LLC v. Silver Springs Networks, Inc., Appeal No. 2015-1237, the Federal...more
3/26/2016
/ Actual or Constructive Knowledge ,
Apple v Samsung ,
Attorney's Fees ,
Claim Construction ,
Damages ,
Due Process ,
Enhanced Damages ,
First Sale Doctrine ,
Foreign Sales ,
Inequitable Conduct ,
JMOL ,
Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons ,
Lexmark ,
Lodestar Method ,
Obviousness ,
Octane Fitness v. ICON ,
Patent Exhaustion ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Resales Agreements ,
Reversal ,
Treble Damages ,
Walker Process Claims
In the recent cases OCTANE FITNESS, LLC v. ICON HEALTH & FITNESS, INC. and HIGHMARK INC. v. ALLCARE HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INC., the U.S. Supreme Court empowered district court judges to award attorney fees to prevailing...more
6/13/2014
/ Akamai Technologies ,
Attorney's Fees ,
Exceptional Case ,
Fee-Shifting ,
Highmark v. Allcare ,
Induced Infringement ,
Limelight ,
Limelight Networks ,
Nautilus Inc. v. Biosig Instruments ,
Octane Fitness v. ICON ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
SCOTUS ,
USPTO