Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Comparing pre-Section 135 bar date claims to amended post-bar date claims in an interference proceeding requires comparing...more
Chewy, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corporation -
Before Moore, Chief Judge, Stoll and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....more
4/10/2024
/ Abstract Ideas ,
Claim Construction ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Computer-Related Inventions ,
Counterclaims ,
IBM ,
Inventions ,
Mobile Apps ,
Online Advertisements ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Section 101 ,
Websites
PFIZER INC. v. SANOFI PASTEUR INC. -
Before Lourie, Bryson, and Stark. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board....more
4/10/2024
/ Appeals ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Life Sciences ,
Merck ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pfizer ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prior Art ,
Sanofi
Volvo Penta of the Americas, LLC, v. Brunswick Corp.
Before Moore, Lourie, and Cunningham. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The Board must consider the combined weight of multiple objective...more
MEDTRONIC, INC. v. TELEFLEX INNOVATIONS -
Before Moore, Lourie, and Dyk. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: A close prima facie case of obviousness can be overcome by strong evidence of objective...more
ROKU, INC. v. UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS, INC. -
Before Newman, Reyna, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: When an appeal from the PTAB addresses only a factual issue, the substantial...more
GRACE INSTRUMENT INDUS. V. CHANDLER INSTRUMENTS CO.
Before Chen, Cunningham, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Summary: Terms of degree are not indefinite when...more
GOOGLE LLC v. HAMMOND DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL, INC. -
Before Moore, Chen, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. -
Summary: Collateral estoppel applies to IPRs where differences in claims do not...more
MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS INC. v. MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP. -
Before Lourie, Reyna and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. -
Summary: “At once envisage” what is missing cannot fill in the gap to establish...more
Traxcell Techs., LLC v. Sprint Commn’s Co. et al Before Prost, O’Malley, and Stoll.
Appeal from the Eastern District of Texas.
Summary: A patentee’s extensive citations to evidence failed to avoid summary judgment of...more
10/14/2021
/ Claim Construction ,
Evidence ,
Indefiniteness ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Sprint ,
Summary Judgment ,
Telecommunications ,
Verizon
ABS GLOBAL, INC. V. CYTONOME/ST, LLC -
Before Prost, Moore, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: A patent owner may moot a petitioner’s appeal of an IPR final written decision of no...more
BAXALTA INC. V. GENENTECH, INC.
Before Moore, Plager, and Wallach. Appeal from the District of Delaware
Summary: A district court erred by interpreting a specification’s description of an “antibody” as a definition,...more
Technical Consumer Prods., Inc. v. Lighting Science Grp Corp.
Before Dyk, Chen, and Stoll; Appeal from the P.T.A.B.
Summary: A term with a narrow antecedent basis in an open ended claim may allow a wider range of prior...more
Amgen, Inc. v. Amneal Pharmas. LLC et al -
Before Newman, Lourie, and Taranto. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
Summary: An examiner amendment may give rise to prosecution history...more
1/10/2020
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Bench Trial ,
Doctrine of Equivalents ,
Markush Grouping ,
Patent Examinations ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Prosecution ,
Patents ,
Prosecution History Estoppel ,
Reversal
ARTHREX, INC. V. SMITH & NEPHEW ET AL.
Before Dyk, Chen, and Stoll. Appeal from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -
Summary: The Board’s invalidity decision does not need to track the exact wording in the IPR...more
Knobbe Martens attorneys Nicholas Zovko and Brandon Smith co-authored "Shifting Venue for Patent Infringement Lawsuits" for the Orange County Business Journal Intellectual Property Law Supplement.
Excerpt: The U.S....more