Shearman & Sterling’s IP litigation team has published its quarterly newsletter. The newsletter covers a number of current IP topics, including a look at the America Invents Act, five years in; the U.S. International Trade Commission’s deference to patent claim invalidation by the PTAB; direct infringement pleading after the elimination of Form 18; post-Halo damages enhancement; recent Federal Circuit decisions on the on-sale bar and jurisdiction over a prevailing party's appeal of a PTAB decision; discovery of experts’ foreign analysts; and pending patent cases before the Supreme Court.