The U.S. Supreme Court today issued dual decisions with substantial impact on the future of Inter Partes Review (IPR) and related proceedings for challenging the validity of patent claims before the PTAB (Patent Trial and...more
4/25/2018
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Last month, the Federal Circuit issued a decision confirming that a “private” sale of an invention, more than one year before the effective filing date of a patent application for that invention, invalidates the resultant...more
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. In a unanimous 8 – 0 ruling, the Court held that the authorized sale of a patent product in the U.S. exhausted all patent...more
The U.S. Supreme Court today issued its decision in Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. In a substantially unanimous (7-0) ruling, the Court held that supplying a single component of a multicomponent invention for...more
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in favor of patent owners with a unanimous (8-0) decision in Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc. The Court held that the Federal Circuit's strict test for awarding enhanced...more
The U.S. Supreme Court today in Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC upheld the longstanding Brulotte rule that a patent owner cannot continue to receive royalties for sales made after its patent expires. In a 6-3 decision,...more
The U.S. Supreme Court today in Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. ruled that a "good faith" belief that a patent is invalid was not a defense to a claim of induced infringement. Reversing the Federal Circuit, the Court...more
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd v. CLS Bank International unanimously continued its recent trend of finding certain patent claims too abstract to be patentable. The patents in question contained...more
The U.S. Supreme Court issued decisions in two major patent infringement cases today, overturning Federal Circuit Court of Appeals rulings on the standards for proving patent vagueness and induced infringement. Summaries of...more
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions that will expand the opportunity for a defendant in a patent infringement suit to be awarded attorney fees in an "exceptional case." In Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health...more