The "Commission is fundamentally a trade forum, not an intellectual property forum" [and] litigation expenses directed at preventing, instead of encouraging manufacture of, articles incorporating patented technology does not...more
5/15/2013
- Domestic Industry Requirement ITC Patents
On May 7, 2013, in Baron Servs., Inc. v. Media Weather Innovations, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Dyk, Reyna, Prost*) vacated and remanded the district court's summary judgment that MWI did not...more
5/9/2013
- Discovery Infringement Patents Summary Judgment
On April 26, 2013, in Biosig Instruments, Inc. v. Nautilus, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Newman, Schall, Wallach*) reversed and remanded the district court's summary judgment that U.S. Patent No....more
4/29/2013
- Claim Construction Indefiniteness Medical Devices Patents
On April 19, 2013, in Lazare Kaplan Int'l, Inc. v. Photoscribe Techs., Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Lourie,* Dyk, Reyna) reversed-in-part, vacated-in-part and remanded the district court's summary...more
4/23/2013
- Claim Construction Infringement Patent Validity Patents USPTO
On April 16, 2013, in Bayer Schering Pharma AG v. Watson Pharm., Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Lourie,* Schall, Prost) reversed the district court's summary judgment that U.S. Reissue Patent No....more
4/19/2013
- Bayer Patents Pharmaceutical Prescription Drugs Prior Art
On April 4, 2013, in Saffran v. Johnson & Johnson, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Lourie,* Moore, O'Malley) reversed the district court's judgment that Johnson & Johnson and Cordis Corp. infringed U.S....more
4/10/2013
- Disclaimers Infringement Medical Devices Patents Prior Art
On March 26, 2013, in Power Integrations, Inc. v. Fairchild Semiconductor Int'l, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Lourie, O'Malley, Reyna*) affirmed-in-part, reversed-in-part, vacated-in-part and...more
3/29/2013
- Damages Infringement Mobile Devices Patents
On March 26, 2013, in In re Owens, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Prost,* Moore, Wallach) affirmed the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences decision upholding the patent examiner's rejection of...more
3/29/2013
On March 25, 2013, in Dawson v. Dawson, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Reyna, Bryson,* Wallach) affirmed the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences decision that awarded priority of invention to...more
3/27/2013
On March 15, 2013, in Frolow v. Wilson Sporting Goods Co., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Newman, Clevenger, Moore*) affirmed-in-part, reversed-in-part and remanded the district court's summary judgment...more
3/26/2013
- Infringement License Agreements Marking Estoppel Patents
On March 20, 2013, in Abbott Labs. v. Cordis Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Rader, Dyk,* Reyna) affirmed the district court's grant of Abbott's motion to quash two subpoenas duces tecum issued...more
3/26/2013
- Inter Partes Reexamination Motions to Quash Patents USPTO
On March 7, 2013, in In re Hubbell, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Newman, O'Malley* Wallach) affirmed the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences decision upholding the patent examiner's rejection...more
3/11/2013
- Interference Proceeding Obviousness Patents
On February 13, 2012, in Function Media, L.L.C. v. Google Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Rader, Newman, Reyna*) affirmed the district court's judgment entering the jury verdict that Google did not...more
2/22/2013
- Advertising Function Media v Google Google Internet Patents
