The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has order for en banc review of the defense of laches in patent cases in order to evaluate the impact of the Supreme Court’s laches decision in the copyright case Petrella v....more
“Reverse Payment” Settlements Face Greater Antitrust Scrutiny Following U.S. Supreme Court Ruling in FTC v. Actavis: Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis, Inc. -
Resolving a split among the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the...more
7/31/2013
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Advertising ,
Antitrust Investigations ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Claims Limitations Period ,
Copyright ,
Forum ,
FTC v Actavis ,
Good Faith ,
Induced Infringement ,
Infringement ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Jurisdiction ,
Lanham Act ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Prior Art ,
Reverse Payment Settlement Agreements ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
Trade Secrets ,
Trademarks
Patent Exhaustion Rejected: Patented Seed Purchaser Has No Right to Make Copies: Bowman v. Monsanto Co. -
In a narrow ruling that reaffirms the scope of patent protection over seeds, and possibly over other...more
5/31/2013
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Bowman v Monsanto ,
Claim Construction ,
CLS Bank ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Copyright ,
FRAND ,
Genetically Engineered Seed ,
Infringement ,
Monsanto ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Exhaustion ,
Patents ,
SCOTUS ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
Standing ,
Trademarks
Obviousness-Type Double Patenting May Exist When There Is Neither Common Ownership nor Common Inventorship -
Addressing an obviousness-type double patenting rejection, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...more
4/30/2013
/ Affidavits ,
Claim Construction ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Discovery ,
DMCA ,
Infringement ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Safe Harbors ,
Trademarks ,
USPTO
In This Issue:
Patents -
Supreme Court: State Court Has Jurisdiction over a Legal Malpractice Claim; Nothing Non-Obvious About Applying Pre-Existing Technology to the Internet; The Federal Circuit Is Not the...more
2/28/2013
/ Adverse Inference Instructions ,
America Invents Act ,
Assignor Estoppel ,
Attorney Malpractice ,
Commercial Bankruptcy ,
Covenant Not to Sue ,
Design Patent ,
Destruction of Evidence ,
Direct Infringement ,
First-to-File ,
Gunn v Minton ,
Infringement ,
Jurisdiction ,
Mattel ,
MGA Entertainment ,
Misappropriation ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Reform ,
Patents ,
SCOTUS ,
Trade Secrets ,
Trademarks
IN THIS ISSUE:
Patents -
Federal Circuit Clarifies ITC Domestic Industry Requirement for Non-Practicing Entities; Permanent Injunctions on the Rise?; Sanctioned Parties in Exceptional Cases Continue to Get Fresh...more
In Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc., the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the trademark plaintiff’s voluntary dismissal of its infringement suit, together with a covenant not to sue, deprived the district court of...more
In This Issue:
Patents -
..Federal Circuit Rules It’s Own Standards Apply When Considering Preliminary Injunctions
..Preliminary Testing of Medical Devices in Animals Enables Their Use in...more
12/28/2012
/ America Invents Act ,
Claim Construction ,
Competition ,
Copyright ,
Infringement ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Assertion Entities ,
Patent Reform ,
Patents ,
Pay-For-Delay ,
Permanent Injunctions ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Reissue Patents ,
Restitution ,
Trade Secrets ,
Trademarks ,
Walker Process Claims