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Issue 42: PTAB Trial Tracker

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The availability of post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has changed the face of patent litigation. This periodic digest is designed to keep you up-to-date by highlighting interesting PTAB,...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Double Check Your Filings, A Cautionary Tale at the PTAB

Recently in Nuna Baby Essentials, Inc. v. Britax Child Safety, Inc., IPR2018-01683, Paper No. 11 (PTAB Dec. 18, 2018), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) denied Petitioner’s motion to excuse the late filing of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Ever-Changing Inventorship Dispute Heads to Bench Trial

In a case of twisting facts, a trial judge has denied a plaintiff’s motion to correct inventorship to add an inventor to a patent because that plaintiff previously asked the PTO to remove that same inventor from the patent...more

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Willfulness Finding in EDTX Ruling in TCL v. Ericsson Illustrates the Risk to Accused Infringers of Failing to Investigate...

In a May 10, 2018 ruling, discussed earlier on this blog, Magistrate Judge Payne affirmed the jury’s willfulness finding largely on the ground that TCL did not proffer any evidence that it held a subjective, good faith belief...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Institution of IPR Supports No Willful Infringement

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An invalid patent cannot be infringed. Regardless, the Supreme Court recently held a good faith belief in the invalidity of a patent does not negate a finding of induced infringement. But what about willfulness – can a good...more

McDermott Will & Emery

PTAB Clarifies Requirements for Claim Amendments - MasterImage 3D, Inc. and MasterImage 3D Asia, LLC v. RealD Inc.

In an order perhaps indicating that the tide is turning for patent owners seeking to amend claims in inter partes review (IPR), an expanded panel of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) provided clarification as...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

District Court: Notification of IPRs Necessary to Comply with Duty of Candor and Good Faith

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On May 2, 2014, Judge Davis of the Eastern District of Virginia determined that counsel in a pending patent litigation “failed to comply with their general duty of candor and good faith to this Court” by not disclosing the...more

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