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Standing Reputational Injury

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

2019 Report: Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB - Summaries of Key 2018 Decisions: RPX Corp. v. Chanbond Llc, No. 17-2346,...

RPX petitioned for inter partes review of ChanBond’s ’822 patent. The Board instituted the IPR and determined that RPX did not show any challenged claim to be unpatentable. RPX appealed the final written decision to the...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Advertising Litigation Report: Vol. 2, No. 2 - Lanham Act False Advertising

Summary Judgment Affirmed for Defendant in Lanham Act Challenge to Statements Concerning Popularity of Advertiser’s Product, Scarcity of Challenger’s Product: Verisign, Inc. v. XYZ.COM LLC, 848 F.3d 292 (4th Cir. 2017)...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

The Importance of Getting Inventorship Right: A Cautionary Tale in Two Cases

U.S. patent law elevates the importance of “the inventor” to an extent unseen in the rest of the world. Unlike many other countries, ownership of patent applications in the United States initially vests in the inventors...more

Burr & Forman

Proper Inventorship Still Matters, Even With a Proper Assignment

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In a few recent cases, we see that failing to properly name inventors in a patent application can lead to unnecessary troubles for a company. This is true whether the assignment document is an employment agreement or an...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Online Services Companies Await Supreme Court Ruling on Standing to Bring Class Actions under Fair Credit Reporting Act

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On November 2, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a contentious round of oral arguments in a case that may significantly change the landscape of consumer class actions. The case, Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, is a class action...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Plaintiff with Injured Reputation May Have Standing in Inventorship Correction Case - Shukh v. Seagate Technology, LLC

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Addressing for the first time whether harm to an inventor’s reputation alone could confer standing to sue, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a lower court decision and found that a sufficiently...more

Proskauer - Advertising Law

A Yarn Spun, But Advertising Not Tailored to a Lanham Act Claim

In a recent application of the Supreme Court’s 2014 Lexmark decision on standing, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held last month that a yarn retailer who alleged it was misled by its supplier into purchasing...more

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