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Patent Poetry: Federal Circuit Reverses Novartis Patent Decision

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The Federal Circuit has issued a precedential decision reversing a lower court’s decision that certain claims of Novartis’s patent for the heart drug Entresto were invalid due to lack of written description....more

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Federal Circuit Says Proper Orange Book-Listed Patent Must Claim Active Ingredient

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In Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products R&D, Inc. v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals of New York, LLC, the Federal Circuit jumped on the bandwagon of scrutinizing the types of patents that can be listed in the Food & Drug...more

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

AI IP Year in Review - Patent Law and Generative AI 101

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, such as predictive AI, have been around for decades, generative AI systems are recent innovations with far reaching implications for patent law. Generative AI, such as ChatGPT,...more

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Federal Circuit’s Decision Confirms That Published Patent Applications Are Prior Art In IPRs As Of Their Filing Date

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On January 14, 2025, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., No. 2023-2346 (Fed. Cir.), affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s ruling that “a published patent...more

Knobbe Martens

A Patent Must Describe What Is Claimed, Not What Infringes

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Before Lourie, Prost, and Reyna. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: A patent was not invalid for lack of written description for failing to describe the specific infringing embodiment...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

District Court Holds That Any Failure to Mark During the Damages Period Bars All Pre-Notice Damages

The District of Arizona recently held that a plaintiff’s failure to mark patented products during the time period that marking was required barred it from recovering all pre-notice damages, including for a period of time when...more

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No Patent-Like Claims Under State Law

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Before Chen, Bryson, and Stoll. Appeal from United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Federal patent laws preempted a state-law conversion claim. Inventorship was properly evaluated using a...more

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District Court: Factual Disputes Preclude Application of Safe Harbor to Gene Editing Technology at the Pleading Stage

The District of Delaware recently denied a motion to dismiss a patent infringement complaint involving gene editing technology that sought relief under the Safe Harbor Provision of the Hatch-Waxman Act. Specifically, the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ceramtec GMBH v. Coorstek Biocermanics LLC

This case examines the application of trademark functionality doctrine in the medical device industry, specifically addressing whether the pink color of ceramic hip components can be protected as a trademark. The case...more

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Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter | January 2025

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Welcome to the Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter, our review of decisions and trends in the intellectual property arena. In this edition, we learn that that changing a definition has consequences, an apex...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Voluminous Expert Testimony and Exhibits Insufficient on Their Own to Warrant Denial of IPR Institution

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board granted institution of inter partes review of a patent directed to delivery of targeted television advertisements. The board rejected patent owner’s argument that a lack of particularity as...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. (Fed. Cir. 2025)

Published Patent Applications Are Prior Art as of the Filing Date, Not the Publication Date - Lynk Labs raises a simple question of statutory interpretation with surprisingly important ramifications:  in inter partes review,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Revocation Actions at the UPC: State Your Defense or Risk Losing Your Patent

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) aims to provide expeditious decisions for its litigants. That means that there is a higher bar for obtaining extensions of time. As exemplified in BMW v. ITCiCo, the UPC’s reluctance to grant...more

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Federal Circuit Upholds Validity of Entresto Patent In Precedential Decision Concerning Written Description and Enablement

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In a Jan. 10 precedential ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the validity of the U.S. patent covering Novartis’s blockbuster drug Entresto was upheld, reversing an earlier decision by the...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

The Precedent: Honeywell Int’l Inc. v. 3G Licensing, S.A.

In this edition of The Precedent, we outline the recent federal circuit decision in Honeywell Int’l Inc. v. 3G Licensing, S.A. (Fed. Cir. Jan. 2, 2025). The Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (the...more

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PTAB AIA FY2024 Roundup: Key Insights and Statistics

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently released its Fiscal Year 2024 roundup for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) America Invents Act (AIA) proceedings. This comprehensive report provides valuable...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Navigating the PREVAIL Act: Key Impacts on Litigants as It Advances in the Senate

The PREVAIL Act is now subject to debate before the full Senate. The Act will require petitioners to certify standing, two new categories of which were recently added via a manager’s amendment....more

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The Power of Patents: Protecting Your Innovation and Boosting Your Business

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Whether you’re a startup founder, an innovator, or a multi-national corporation, understanding the strategic importance of patents can transform the way you protect and leverage your intellectual property (IP) portfolio....more

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Key Federal Circuit Patent Rulings Impacting Your Business - Recent Rulings - January 2025

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Contour IP v. GoPro: Federal Circuit Offers Insight into Alice’s Step One Analysis. In Contour IP v. GoPro, the Federal Circuit reversed a summary judgment order invalidating two of Contour IP’s patents directed to...more

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Federal Circuit: Published Patent Applications Available as Prior Art in IPRs as of Filing Date

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Jan. 14, 2025, in Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., that published U.S. patent applications may continue to be used as prior art in inter partes...more

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2024 Hatch-Waxman Year in Review

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In 2024, the Hatch-Waxman Act continued to play a critical role in the U.S. pharmaceutical landscape, driving the dynamics between brand-name drugmakers and generics. This landmark legislation, enacted to encourage innovation...more

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Bit Swap: Motivation to Modify Prior Art Needn’t Be Inventor’s Motivation

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Addressing the issue of obviousness, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a Patent Trial & Appeal Board decision, finding that the challenged patent claims were obvious because a person of ordinary skill...more

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The Not-So-Safe Harbor for Research Tools: Lessons From the District of Delaware

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In BlueAllele Corp. v. Intellia Therapeutics, Inc., 2024 U.S. Dist. Lexis 222094 (D. Del. Dec. 9, 2024)1, the District of Delaware addressed several issues relevant to the safe harbor defense in Hatch-Waxman litigation. ...more

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Skilled Artisan’s View Is Decisive in Assessing Asserted Claim Drafting Error

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The Court of Appeal (CoA) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) clarified the legal standard for correcting obvious type inaccuracies in patent claims, explaining that the view of a skilled person at the filing date is decisive...more

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Published Application Art at the PTAB: Lynk Labs v. Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd.

In Lynk Labs, Inc., v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the Federal Circuit reinforced that patent applications may serve as prior art in IPR proceedings as of their filing date—even where those applications were not published...more

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