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Beyond the 100 Mile Rule: Court of Appeal Affirms District Court’s Power to Compel Attendance of Distant Witnesses and Unveil...

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What is the range of a federal district court’s power to compel a nonparty’s attendance at a hearing? Every practicing litigator knows the answer—“within 100 miles of where the person resides, is employed, or regularly...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Delay in Correcting Disclosure of Real Parties-in-Interest not Procedurally Fatal to IPR Petition

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituted an inter partes review over patent owner’s objections that the petition did not timely identify all real parties-in-interest (RPI) and was filed by a phantom legal entity after...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Getting to the Core of It: Assignment Clause Is Ambiguous

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a district court’s grant of summary judgment, finding that the language used in an invention assignment clause was subject to more than one reasonable...more

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Testing Negative: Collateral Order Doctrine Precludes Appellate Jurisdiction

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Addressing appellate jurisdiction in view of the collateral order doctrine, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal of a district court’s ruling denying a motion to dismiss because the district...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Section 285 Does Not Extend to Recovery of IPR Fees

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  ZIRCON CORP. v. ITC (2022-1649, 05/08/2024) (Lourie, Bryson, and Stark) - Bryson, J. The Court affirmed the Commission’s determination regarding the domestic...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Printed Matter Doctrine Applies to Communicative Content, Not All Communications

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  IOENGINE, LLC V. VIDAL (21-1227 Lourie, Chen, Stoll) - Chen, J.  The Court reversed in part and affirmed in part the Final Written Decisions of the Patent Trial and...more

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Unified Patent Court Publishes Its First Case Load Statistics

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The UPC, a single patent court for European Union Member States, has published the first statistics on its case load since its establishment in 2023. Between June 1, 2023, and January 31, 2024, a total of 196 cases were filed...more

Linda Liu & Partners

Judicial Remedy of Administrative Decision on Disputes over Patent Infringement | Administrative Lawsuit on Infringement on...

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Judgment Gist - Customary design is a prior design that is well known by the general consumers and can be recalled by the general consumers upon merely mentioning of the product name. When mentioning beauty roller...more

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Fifth Circuit Weighs In on Transfer Factors In High-Tech IP Case

The Federal Circuit is charged with disposing of the mandamus petitions that regularly arise from decisions denying transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) in Texas patent litigation. The Fifth Circuit, whose law the Federal...more

Troutman Pepper

Building on Successful Judicial Assignment Reform in Texas

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More than 16 months ago, the two ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Chief Justice John Roberts to direct the Judicial Conference of the United States to study forum shopping in patent litigation,...more

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EDVA Reaffirms its Aversion to Litigation Between Out of State Companies in Recent Venue Decision

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From the mid-1990s until the mid-2010s, the EDVA typically ranked among the top 10 federal districts for patent litigation. See Gugliuzza, Paul R. and Anderson, Jonas, Why Do Judges Compete for (Patent) Cases? at 24-25...more

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Countdown to the Unified Patent Court

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A Leap Into the Unknown? UPC actions will be heard by a multinational panel of judges in a local, regional or central division. The panels will include two judges drawn from respective local courts and, in some cases, a...more

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Minimizing Patent TRO and PI Risk in Europe

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Do you fear the possibility of a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction involving patent infringement allegations in Europe? Those provisional measures are more common in Europe than in the United States....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Generic’s Conversion from Paragraph IV to Section viii Upends Subject Matter Jurisdiction on Declaratory Judgment Counterclaims

The District Court of Delaware dismissed a generic drug company’s declaratory judgment counterclaims of non-infringement and invalidity, finding that the court no longer had subject matter jurisdiction after the generic...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions: Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. Bennett Regulator Guards,...

Atlanta Gas petitioned for inter partes review of Bennett’s ’029 patent. The Board initially rejected Bennett’s argument that Atlanta Gas was time barred from petitioning for inter partes review under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b) and...more

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2023 IP Outlook: Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent Update

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Set to open on June 1, 2023, the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) will revolutionize patent enforcement across 17 participating European Union (EU) Member States. The UPC will have exclusive jurisdiction over the new European...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions

As part of the recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit took steps to return to normal operations. It began requiring live oral arguments in August 2022 and, by November,...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - January 2023 #2

Grace Instrument Industries, LLC v. Chandler Instruments Company, LLC, Appeal No. 2021-2370 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 12, 2023) - In an appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the Federal Circuit...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction Over Skinny Label Applications: In re: Entresto (Sacubitril/Valsartan) Patent Litigation

On September 27, 2022, Judge Richard Andrews of the District of Delaware granted Novartis’s motion to dismiss declaratory judgment (“DJ”) counterclaims raised by two generic drug manufacturers in the ongoing litigation...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Cancellation of claim in reexamination eliminates patent owner standing in appeal from IPR; Accused...

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - BEST MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL, INC. v. ELEKTA INC. [OPINION]  (2021-2099, 2021-2100, 8/29/22) (Hughes, Linn, and Stoll) - Stoll, J. Dismissing-in-part the appeal from Best Medical...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - August 2022 #5

Best Medical International, Inc. v. Elekta Inc., Appeal Nos. 2021-2099, -2100 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 26, 2022) - In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit addressed issues of jurisdiction where a challenged claim was...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry

Jurisdictional Ping-Pong Averted

We’ve previously written about Chandler v. Phoenix Services, L.L.C., an interesting case on the Federal Circuit’s exclusive appellate jurisdiction in patent cases. Earlier this week, the Fifth Circuit issued a decision...more

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Minnesota Patent Litigation Wrap-Up - Q1 2022

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This post continues our summary of substantive orders in patent litigation in the District of Minnesota. This summary includes discovery relevant to willfulness findings, stays under the customer suit exception, and...more

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Federal Circuit Clarifies Standard for Fair and Reasonable Exercise of Jurisdiction Based on Demand Letters

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday issued a decision that clarifies its precedent on the exercise of personal jurisdiction in patent cases. In a precedential decision, the court held that there is no...more

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Dutch Court of Appeal grants cross-border patent infringement injunction in the absence of a Dutch patent

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On 1 March 2022, the Court of Appeal of the Hague confirmed that a Dutch warehousing and distribution entity of a Chinese company infringed a patent relating to solar technology. The Court of Appeal grants a cross-border...more

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