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A Baker's Dozen of Patent Law Developments for 2024

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The world of intellectual property law is always changing, and it can be difficult to keep up. Here are 13 developments in patent law so far in 2024 to help you stay in the know....more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Redesigning Design Patent Validity

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sitting en banc recently overruled the long-standing test for determining obviousness of design patents in LKQ Corporation, Keystone Automotive Industries, Inc. v. GM Global...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Danger Ahead? Graham and KSR Now Apply to Design Patents

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On May 21, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an en banc opinion overruling the long-standing Rosen-Durling test for obviousness of design patents in favor of the analytical framework used for...more

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ITC Shines Light on DI: Complainant Can’t Aggregate Investments Across Patents, Prongs

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Addressing a determination by its chief administrative law judge (CALJ) finding a violation of § 337, the US International Trade Commission reversed and held that the complainant had not satisfied the economic prong of the...more

AEON Law

Patent Poetry: Patent and Trademark Offices Publish Study on NFT IP Issues

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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Copyright Office have published the results of their joint study on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and intellectual property (IP). The Report was created in response to a June...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Congress Tees Up Copyright Protection for Golf Course Designs with the BIRDIE Act

A new federal bill aims to put golf courses on “par” with other architectural designs by expanding federal copyright protection to golf courses. Copyright law in the United States, rooted in the U.S. Constitution, ensures...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

IP Rights in Virtual Fashion: Lessons Learned in 2022 and Unanswered Questions

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There was a lot of talk and much hype about the “metaverse” in 2022. While some were skeptical and stayed on the sidelines to watch, many companies began offering virtual counterparts to their real-world products for use by...more

Linda Liu & Partners

Analysis of Patent Applications for Novel Coronavirus Detection Kits

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The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (officially known as “SARS-CoV-2” and hereinafter referred to as “NC” for short) led to the COVID-19 pandemic. All countries around the world are fighting against the disease. In this...more

Knobbe Martens

Medical Device Patentee Petitions Supreme Court Regarding On-Sale Bar and Price Quotes

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A medical device patentee has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to save his design patent, related to an introducer sheath handle, from invalidity based on application of the “on-sale” bar, which prohibits patenting an invention...more

Knobbe Martens

Federal Circuit Reverses District Court’s Decision Based on On-Sale Bar (Junker v. Medical Components, Inc.)

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On February 10, 2022, in Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s grant of summary judgment of no invalidity under the “on-sale bar”...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - July 2020: Font Software Licensing – "Sans" Disparagement Clause

Multinational investment bank and financial services company Goldman Sachs made headlines last month with the introduction of its proprietary, but free-to-use, “Goldman Sans” typeface. The royalty-free, nonexclusive, and...more

Jones Day

Wurst Case Scenario: Sausage Tray Design Patent Found Obvious

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Last October, the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB’s decision that a challenged design patent was not obvious. Campbell Soup Co. v. Gamon Plus, Inc., 939 F.3d 1335 (Fed. Cir. 2019). We wrote about how the court applied a...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - November 2019

The November 2019 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter discusses a recent Federal Circuit design patent decision, the USDA's new hemp rules, and Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton's acquisition of Tiffany & Co. We...more

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Federal Circuit Holds That Claim Language Can Limit The Scope Of A Design Patent

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In Curver Luxembourg SARL v. Home Expressions Inc., case number 18-2214, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently held that the claim language of a design patent can limit its scope where the claim language...more

Ladas & Parry LLP

Design Patent Protection For Replacement Parts

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The fight between insurers and car manufacturers as to whether and, if so how, to protect the design of spare parts for cars delayed the implementation of an EU regulation on design protection for well over a decade and ended...more

Jones Day

Verbal Aspect of Claim Limits Design Patent Scope in Curver Luxembourg v. Home Expressions

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The Federal Circuit affirmed dismissal of design patent infringement claims under an estoppel theory triggered by amendments made to meet patentability requirements in Curver Luxembourg, SARL v. Home Expressions Inc., No....more

Kilpatrick

Design Patent Damages Post Samsung v Apple

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In its 2016 Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple, Inc. ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reinterpreted “article of manufacture” more broadly to encompass both the end product OR its parts, ultimately opening the door to...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Smartphone Wars – The Last Jury: Samsung Owes $539M for Infringing Apple’s Patents

California jury recently awarded Apple $538.6 million in total damages for patent infringement by Samsung. This is the latest development in the patent battle between smartphone industry titans that began in 2011 and took...more

Kilpatrick

10 Considerations for Blockchain patent applications

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Introduction - A blockchain is a distributed ledger verified and copied across thousands of computers. One analogy is Google Docs, which provides multiple parties access to the same document. Blocks in a blockchain are...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Patent Strategies for Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology

Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are rapidly emerging as disruptive technologies. As has happened with many new technologies, particularly disruptive ones, a patent arms race is occurring. The number of patents...more

Troutman Pepper

Cannabis Industry FAQ

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Can marijuana businesses receive federal copyright protection? Yes. The requirements for registration with the U.S. Copyright Office are that the work is original, creative and fixed in some form of expression. These...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

IP Law December Developments: What to Expect in the Future

December has been a hot month for IP law, with important developments in several cases that may significantly impact your intellectual property prosecution and enforcement strategies. Here is a brief summary of each of these...more

Burr & Forman

Samsung Secures 8-0 Win in the Supreme Court Reversing Apple's $400 Million Damage Award

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The Supreme Court of the United States handed Samsung a victory yesterday by reversing a $400 million judgment previously won by Apple for infringement of several of Apple's design patents. In a unanimous 8-0 decision, the...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

A Smaller Bite for Apple? Supreme Court Limits Damages for Design Patent Infringement

In a case reversing a $399 million damages award to Apple, the U.S. Supreme Court has held unanimously that an “article of manufacture” under the design patent damages statute can be anything from an entire product to a...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

U.S. Supreme Court Alters Standard for Design Patent Damages and Takes Apple's $400 Million Victory Over Samsung Away (At Least...

On December 6, 2016, the United States Supreme Court handed down an important unanimous decision regarding damages in design patent cases, throwing out a $400 million damages award that Apple had won from Samsung over...more

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