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Patent Poetry: Jury Awards $30 Million in Artificial Eyelash Patent Case

AEON Law on 9/19/2024

A federal court jury in Texas has awarded more than $30 million in damages to woman-owned beauty start-up Lashify Inc. The jury found that Qingdao Lashbeauty Cosmetic Co., a Chinese company doing business as Worldbeauty,...more

A Landmark Summer for Design Patent Law

Bennett Jones LLP on 9/18/2024

The world of intellectual property (IP) underwent some significant transformations this summer, with recent changes from the U.S. Federal Circuit and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) reshaping the landscape of...more

Alexion and Samsung Settle Eculizumab BPCIA Case

Goodwin on 9/16/2024

On August 30, 2024, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Alexion Pharma International Operations Ltd. (collectively, “Alexion”) and Samsung Bioepis Co. Ltd. (“Samsung Bioepis”) settled their BPCIA dispute related to...more

Antitrust and Competition Life Sciences Quarterly Update Q2 2024

Goodwin on 9/10/2024

To date, 2024 has not yet seen the type of mega-merger (Pfizer/Seagen) or level of agency enforcement (Sanofi/Maze or Amgen/Horizon) as 2023. But two notable investigations — one still active — show the Federal Trade...more

Canadian Patentees are Presumptively Entitled to the Remedies of an Accounting of Profits and a Permanent Injunction

Bennett Jones LLP on 8/26/2024

In two companion appeals relating to patents over television interactive programming guides, the Federal Court of Appeal clarified that a successful patent plaintiff is entitled to an accounting of the defendant’s profits...more

Be an Expert: Precedential PTAB Decision on Conclusory Expert Testimony

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 8/1/2024

A recent precedential decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) may serve as a warning for those parties who plan on relying on expert declarations in their inter partes reviews (“IPR”). On August 24, 2022, the...more

FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape - July 2024

WilmerHale on 8/1/2024

This is the third issue of WilmerHale’s FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape, a bulletin that highlights developments about the licensing, litigation, and regulation of patents that are or are claimed to be...more

A Baker's Dozen of Patent Law Developments for 2024

Baker Donelson on 7/18/2024

The world of intellectual property law is always changing, and it can be difficult to keep up. Here are 13 developments in patent law so far in 2024 to help you stay in the know....more

2024 mid-year highlights in Canadian life sciences IP and regulatory law

Smart & Biggar on 7/10/2024

In the first half of 2024, Rx IP Update reported on a number of developments in Canadian life sciences IP and regulatory law. The Rx IP Update team at Smart & Biggar has collected the top stories from January to June and...more

USPTO and UKIPO Announce Collaboration Effort on Standard Essential Patent Policies

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 7/10/2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that outlines a new framework for collaboration between the two...more

EV Trade Secret Litigation Continues to Boom with Tesla Suing Its Supplier Over EV Battery Technology Theft

Proskauer - Trade Secrets on 7/8/2024

The rise in trade secrets litigation in the electric vehicle (“EV”) sector continues with Tesla filing another lawsuit: this time against its own equipment supplier. On June 14, 2024, Tesla filed a complaint in the Northern...more

A Dive Into Intellectual Property Liability for E-Commerce Platforms

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/8/2024

Online shopping has become increasingly popular in recent years. E-commerce sales surpassed $6.5 trillion in 2023 and are expected to total over $8.1 trillion by 2026. Convenience of product variety and online competition...more

The Rise of GenAI in Personalized Medicine and Beyond

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/8/2024

GenAI, or Generative AI, has seen a surge in patenting activity with China leading the way in filing patent applications for this technology. The landscape analysis by WIPO reveals Tencent, Ping An Insurance Group, and Baidu...more

Global Growth In GenAI Patenting Activity

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/8/2024

Between 2014-2023, China has filed more patent applications (38,000) covering Generative AI (GenAI) technology than another other country, six times more than second place United States, as reported by the World Intellectual...more

EU Parliament Adopts SPC Reform Proposals: Clarifying the Protection Scope for Biologics

Jones Day on 7/1/2024

On February 28, 2024, following the European Commission's four 2023 proposals, the European Parliament adopted a legislative resolution on the amended proposal to create a Unitary Supplementary Protection Certificate ("USPC")...more

A New Look at an Old Hot Topic: The Internet of Things

Butler Snow LLP on 6/28/2024

In 1999, computer scientist Kevin Ashton coined the term “the Internet of Things” (“IoT”) in order to put a name to his idea of using RFID chips to track items as they moved throughout a supply chain. “Though there is no...more

On Efficiency of China’s Drug-Related Patent Term Compensation System based on “Effective protection period”

Linda Liu & Partners on 6/26/2024

China’s state council issued State Council Degree No. 769 on December 21, 2023 to enact the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law (Amended in 2023) (hereinafter referred to as “the Implementing Regulations (Amended in...more

Seedlings of Ideas For Artificial Intelligence: Learning From A Genetic Resources/Traditional Knowledge Treaty, The Plant Patent...

International Lawyers Network on 6/20/2024

The World Intellectual Property Organization announced on May 24, 2024, a treaty on intellectual property, genetic resources, and associated traditional knowledge that was twenty-five years in the making. As WIPO’s press...more

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