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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Understanding Preliminary Injunction: A Review of a Recent Federal Circuit Decision

This Federal Circuit opinion addresses a district court’s decision granting plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction. Background - Plaintiff Natera, Inc. (“Natera”) and defendant NeoGenomics Laboratories, Inc....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

NO FAKES Here: A New Tool to Protect Against the Misuse of AI?

What do Scarlett Johansson, Drake, The Weeknd, and Taylor Swift have in common (besides being among this millennial’s fav celebs)? They all have the distinct displeasure of becoming a target of deepfake technology – a type...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Celanese v. ITC: How the On-Sale Bar Can Turn Sweet Sales into Spoiled Patents

Celanese International Corporation, Celanese (Malta) Company 2 Limited, and Celanese Sales U.S. Ltd. (collectively, “Celanese”) filed a petition before the United States International Trade Commission (the “ITC”), alleging...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Federal Circuit Clarifies Test for Exception to Increasingly Rare Interference Proceedings

Speck v. Bates, No. 2023-1147 (Fed. Cir. May 23, 2024) addressed two issues, (1) whether courts should apply a one-way test or a two-way test to determine if pre-critical claims materially differ from post-critical claims,...more

White & Case LLP

Data: The hottest non-commodity in the mining & metals sector?

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There is a tendency to think of data as generic, especially when it is vast, but the uniqueness of mineral data makes it the ultimate non-commodity, primed to take advantage of AI....more

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Court Rules That Scraping of Public Data by Competitor Constitutes Trade Secret Misappropriation

In an ongoing dispute commenced in 2016, the Eleventh Circuit for the second time in the lifetime of the litigation considered trade secret misappropriation and related copyright claims in a scraping case between direct...more

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NCAA Settlement Hearing — Highway to NIL Podcast

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The Highway to NIL Podcast analyzes the legal landscape concerning college athletics and the regulation of name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights of student athletes. The podcast provides key insights into the current state...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Careful What You Wish For: Demand Letters Can Result in Unintended Litigation

When seeing similar trademarks or trade dress employed by a third party, companies often immediately react with a demand letter requiring the target to “immediately cease and desist” its use of the IP and threatening...more

Mandelbaum Barrett PC

Touchdown on IP: The Legal Playbook for Upcycling in Fashion

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According to Forbes Magazine, a majority of younger generations (59 percent of Generation Z and 57 percent of Millennials) are buying upcycled products. This growing trend has transformed the fashion industry, blending...more

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Federal Circuit Reinforces Implications of the On-Sale Bar for Patent Owners

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The recent Federal Circuit case of Celanese International Corp. v. International Trade Commission serves as a significant reminder of the importance of the on-sale bar in U.S. patent law....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

China’s Implementation of Patent Term Adjustment

On August 6, 2024, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) announced the fee standards for patent term adjustment (PTA) requests. Before this announcement, all submitted requests for PTA were pending...more

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Africa Domain Name Industry Study

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in collaboration with PowerSoft Africa and the Coalition for Digital Africa, recently published a study on the state of the domain industry in Africa in 2023....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Without Concrete Evidence of Potential Infringement Liability, Petitioner Lacked Standing to Challenge PTAB’s Final Written...

The Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from an inter partes review (“IPR”) final written decision for lack of standing where it found the appellant failed to provide evidence sufficient to show it suffered an injury in fact....more

Irwin IP LLP

Court Prunes a Thicket of Claims and Counterclaims and Excludes Expert’s Design Patent Infringement Opinion 

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Fiskars Finland OY AB v. Woodland Tools, Inc., No. 22-cv-00540 (W.D. Wis. Aug. 26, 2024) - On August 26, 2024, the Western District of Wisconsin issued a decision adjudicating a number of motions in a case involving a...more

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Federal Circuit Finds Conventional Components Can Provide a Technological Advantage at Alice Step 1

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On September 9, the Federal Circuit reversed a Northern District of California decision that invalidated two video camera patents as being directed to patent-ineligible abstract ideas under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Contour IP...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Federal Circuit Weighs in Again on Obviousness-Type Double Patenting to Limit In re Cellect and Preserve PTA for First-Filed,...

Obviousness-type double patenting (ODP), a judicially-created ground of patent invalidity, has become the subject of intense interest after the Federal Circuit issued two decisions refining the application of the doctrine in...more

Goodwin

Life Sciences Licensing and M&A Update: Catching Up on Recent Decisions Affecting Commercially Reasonable Efforts Definitions and...

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Recently, the Delaware Chancery Court and the Third Circuit issued three significant decisions on key issues affecting licensing and M&A transactions in the life sciences industry....more

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Alexion and Samsung Settle Eculizumab BPCIA Case

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​​​​​​​On August 30, 2024, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Alexion Pharma International Operations Ltd. (collectively, “Alexion”) and Samsung Bioepis Co. Ltd. (“Samsung Bioepis”) settled their BPCIA dispute related to...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Federal Circuit Says No Timing Requirement To Qualify As A POSITA

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Last week, in Osseo Imaging, LLC v. Planmeca USA Inc., No. 2023-1627 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 4, 2024), the Federal Circuit held that “[a]n expert need not have acquired the skill level prior to the time of the invention to be able...more

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(Podcast) The Briefing: Does This Court’s Ruling Put an End to Tattoo Copyright Cases?

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The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio issued an opinion in Hayden V. 2K Games, Inc. that could potentially put an end to tattoo copyright cases. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss the court’s opinion on...more

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The Briefing: Does This Court’s Ruling Put an End to Tattoo Copyright Cases?

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The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio issued an opinion in Hayden V. 2K Games, Inc. that could potentially put an end to tattoo copyright cases. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss the court’s opinion on...more

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Institution Denied for Failure to Show Disclosure in Provisional Application

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On December 1, 2023, Intelligent Wellhead Systems, Inc. (“Intelligent”) filed a petition for inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 11,401,779 (“the ’779 Patent”) (“IPR256”), assigned to Downing Wellhead Equipment,...more

Kilpatrick

Data Licensing: Five Takeaways from the New York City Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education Program on Intellectual...

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Barry M. Benjamin, managing partner of the New York office and chair of Kilpatrick’s Advertising and Marketing group, was honored to present on September 13 at the New York City Bar Association’s continuing legal education...more

Cozen O'Connor

The EU AI Act: Part Three – General-Purpose Models

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This is part three of our examination of the European Union’s new artificial intelligence law (the “EU AI Act”). In part one, we introduced the scope of the EU AI Act and discussed what types of AI systems are outright...more

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Cybersecurity in the Age of Industry 4.0 - Part 1

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As the manufacturing sector continues to embrace the hyper-connected era of Smart Manufacturing, known as Industry 4.0, more and more organizations are integrating advanced automation, artificial intelligence (AI), the...more

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