The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s holding that a merger clause in a patent license settlement agreement did not extinguish a prior covenant not to sue on the same patent because the agreement did not...more
2/3/2020
/ Contract Interpretation ,
Covenant Not to Sue ,
Exclusive Licenses ,
License Agreements ,
Merger Agreements ,
Merger Clause ,
Mergers ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Settlement Agreements
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently designated three more decisions as informative, bringing the total number of informative decisions to 13 for 2019. Two decisions—one final and one on institution—address...more
1/6/2020
/ Abstract Ideas ,
Computer-Related Inventions ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Section 101 ,
USPTO
Chief Judge Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas held that the litigation conduct of defendants Huawei Device USA, Inc. and Huawei Device (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (collectively, “Huawei”), in a patent infringement action,...more
12/9/2019
/ Affirmative Defenses ,
Attorney's Fees ,
Damages ,
Declaratory Judgments ,
Enhanced Damages ,
Exceptional Case ,
FRAND ,
Huawei ,
Jury Awards ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patents ,
Subject Matter Jurisdiction ,
Totality of Circumstances Test ,
Willful Infringement