In Ingenico Inc. v. IOENGINE, LLC, the Federal Circuit defined for the first time the scope of inter partes review (“IPR”) estoppel in district court and International Trade Commission (ITC) proceedings: IPR estoppel applies...more
In a considerable shift in the law, the Federal Circuit has discarded the long-standing test for determining whether a design patent is invalid as obvious, in favor of the more flexible obviousness test historically applied...more
In Great Concepts, LLC v. Chutter, Inc.,1 the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (“Board”) decision cancelling registration of Great Concepts’ trademark due to the filing of a...more
On June 29, 2021, the Supreme Court clarified the “boundaries” of the patent-law doctrine of assignor estoppel in Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., 594 U.S. (2021). The Court, in Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co. v....more
On April 6, 2021, the Western District of Texas ordered that preliminary injunction relief was appropriate to prevent irreparable harm to the plaintiff due to the defendant’s “discovery abuse and related misconduct.”...more
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