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The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court ruling setting aside a final judgment of patent infringement, including a $1.1 million damages award and a permanent injunction. The appellee brought the motion to vacate...more
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
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
As the sayings go, diligence is the mother of good luck, and necessity is the mother of invention. But for patents that fall under the pre-AIA, first-to-invent, system, proving diligence can be a necessity for invention. In...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit explained that diligence towards reduction to practice may be established by a showing of reasonably continuous activity. ATI Techs. ULC v. Iancu, Case Nos. 2016-2222, -2406,...more
The Federal Circuit’s decision in ATI Technologies ULC v. Iancu (April 11, 2019) highlights the proper standard to use in evaluating whether a claimed invention was reduced to practice before the effective date of a prior art...more
In a digital-age David versus Goliath case, Dr. Luc Bessette has come head-to-head with the Quebec government in a battle over rights to a technology solution that provides shared access to critical medical information...more
Thomas Steed, Sourav Bhattacharya, and Sandeep Seshadrijois (collectively "Steed") filed a patent application entitled "Web-Integrated On-Line Financial Database System and Method for Debt Recovery," on April 6, 2004, with...more