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Unclean Hands and Inequitable Conduct: Dishonesty Is Not the Best Policy

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Before Reyna, Hughes, and Stark.  Appeal from the Western District of Louisiana. Summary: The district court correctly found unclean hands, but erred by finding no inequitable conduct without addressing the collective weight...more

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CAFC Patent Cases - May 2021 #2

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - CAP EXPORT, LLC v. ZINUS, INC. [OPINION]  (2020-2087, 5/5/21) (Dyk, Bryson, Hughes) - Dyk, J. Affirming decision to set aside judgment and injunction pursuant to Federal Rule of...more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Federal Circuit Affirms Decision to Vacate Judgment Following Evidence of Fraud

On May 5, in Cap Export, LLC v. Zinus, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that a district court properly vacated its earlier judgment of infringement in favor of Zinus after evidence came to light that Zinus’s president gave...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - May 2021 #2

Cap Export, LLC v. Zinus, Inc., Appeal No. 2020-2087 (Fed. Cir. May 5, 2021) - The Federal Circuit issued a single precedential patent case this week. The district court set aside a judgement and injunction originally in...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases

Berkheimer v. HP Inc., Appeal No. 2017-1437 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 8, 2018) - In Berkheimer v. HP Inc., the Federal Circuit reviewed the District Court’s summary judgment finding that certain claims of a patent were invalid as...more

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Federal Circuit Review - September 2014

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Misrepresentation Regarding Prior Art Lead to Inequitable Conduct - In APOTEX INC. v. UCB, INC., Appeal No. 2013-1674, the Federal Circuit affirmed a judgment of inequitable conduct. Apotex sued UCB for patent...more

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