General Electric Co. v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation, fka United Technologies Corporation, Case No. 19-1012.
On February 24, 2020, we reported on GE’s petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court....more
Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To Call Technologies, LP, et al., 590 U.S. ___, Case No. 18-916 (slip op., April 20, 2020) -
John P. Isacson IPR petitioner Thryv challenged patent owner Click-To-Call’s patent and several claims were...more
Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG, Appeal No. 2019-1262 (Fed. Cir., April 9, 2020) -
The PTAB has never shown an affinity for permitting amendments in IPRs. This appeal marks the second time that a proposed amendment in an IPR was...more
Apple Inc. v. California Institute of Technology, Appeal Nos. 2019-1580, -1581 (Fed. Cir., March 5, 2020).
In January of this year, a jury awarded the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) $837,801,178 for Apple’s...more
Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Google LLC et al., Appeal No. 2019-1177 (Fed. Cir., January 30, 2020).
Google filed an IPR against Philips’ patent relating to a method of forming a media presentation on a client device from...more
Wasica Finance GmbH et al. v. Schrader Int’l, Inc. et al., C.A. 13-1353-LPS (D. Del. January 14, 2020) (publicly available on January 21, 2020)....more
Biodelivery Sciences Int’l, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2019-1643, -1644, -1645 (Fed. Cir., January 13, 2020) -
On August 29, 2019, we reported on the Biodelivery decision, where the PTAB received on...more
On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the following cases...more
1/14/2020
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Fox Factory, Inc. v. SRAM, LLC, Appeal Nos. 2018-2024, -2025 (Fed. Cir. December 18, 2019).
SRAM owned two patents pertaining to bicycle chainrings, which are toothed disks that engage bicycle chains. Fox filed inter...more
Customedia Tech., LLC v. Dish Network Corp.., Appeal Nos. 2018-2239, -2240, -2310, 2019-1000, -1001, -1002, -1027 and -1029 (Fed. Cir., Nov. 1, 2019).
The day after the Federal Circuit issued its decision in Arthrex, Inc....more
Biodelivery Sciences Int’l, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Appeal Nos. 2019-1643, -1644, -1645 (Fed. Cir. August 29, 2019) -
On motion, the Federal Circuit dismissed the second appeals in three IPRs pertaining to oral...more
GoPro, Inc. v. 360Heros, Inc., IPR2018-01754 (Precedential Opinion Panel, August 23, 2019) -
Section 315(b) of Title 35 prohibits institution of an IPR where the petition is filed more than one year after service of a...more
Celgene Corp. v. Peter, Appeal Nos. 2018-1167, -1168, -1169 (Fed. Cir. July 30, 2019) -
Celgene owned two patents that pertained to methods of safely distributing potentially hazardous drugs. The patents were challenged...more
8/1/2019
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Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Retroactive Application
The Federal Circuit just issued a decision that confirms its stance on Article III standing for appeals from inter partes reviews (IPRs), making it tougher for unsuccessful IPR petitioners to obtain judicial review of U.S....more
2/8/2019
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Biosimilars ,
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Momenta ,
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Patents ,
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