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Trade Secret Rights May be Lost Because of A Failure to Review a Competitor’s Prior Art Patent Applications

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A recent decision from a California federal district court should make patent prosecutors and their clients more alert when looking at recent prior art references: they may refer to patent applications filed by competitors...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

PTAB Denies Motion to Compel Discovery of Evidence from Parallel ITC Investigation Due to Lack of Inconsistency

The PTAB denied a petitioner’s motion to compel routine discovery that sought information from a parallel ITC investigation for alleged inconsistent positions taken by patent owner in the IPR. The board found that patent...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program Provides Opportunity to Accelerate Patent Examination

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The Chips Act seeks to jump-start semiconductor development in the United States. Last week, the Patent Office has promulgated the Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program (STPP) to further the goals of the Chips Act....more

Fish & Richardson

ITC Monthly Wrap-Up: October 2022

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This month’s ITC Wrap-Up discusses the Commission’s recent decision to omit certain proposed respondents and to narrow the scope of an investigation from that proposed by the complaint in Certain Semiconductors and Devices...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Foley Weekly Automotive Report - June 2021 - 2

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This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities. Key Developments - U.S. new light vehicles sales in May exceeded projections to reach a...more

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IoT Lighting Industry Giants Hit with Patent Infringement Suit

TriDiNetworks, an Israel based cloud management platform for M2M (machine-to-machine) and IoT networks, recently filed three lawsuits against industry leaders in IoT technology for alleged willful patent infringement. Two of...more

Jones Day

No Basis For Broad Exclusion Of Inventor Testimony

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The Board has broad discretion to determine how much weight should be given to inventor testimony, but as long as the testimony does not relate to the inventor’s opinion about the meaning of a claim term, there is no basis...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Top Ten Patent Wars – Semiconductors (#7)

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There has been so much patent litigation regarding semiconductors over the past 70 years or so that even a brief synopsis would exceed one post. Instead, let’s take a look at the war that the semiconductor industry expected,...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - In re Power Integrations, Inc., Appeal No. 17-1304 (Fed. Cir. 2018) - In In re: Power Integrations, Inc., the Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) rejection of a...more

Goodwin

Issue Eleven: PTAB Trial Tracker

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PTAB Grants-in-Part Motion to Amend Claims, Even Though Federal Circuit Previously Invalidated the Claims - In Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC v. Power Integrations, Inc., IPR2016-01600, Paper 35 (PTAB Feb. 14,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The PTAB Holds That Testimony Concerning Customer Statements and Their State of Mind Constitutes Hearsay

On September 22, 2017, the United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision regarding claims directed to a switching regulator comprising a power switch and a control circuit. The PTAB found...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

When Does “On” Mean “On”? Judge Netburn Holds That It Depends.

On September 11, 2017, Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn (S.D.N.Y.) issued a claim construction ruling on, among other things, the construction of the word “on” across four different patents directed to semiconductor lasers. In...more

Proskauer - New England IP Blog

Judge Young Addresses Possibility Versus Plausibility in Patent Pleadings

Judge Young granted a plaintiff leave to file an amended complaint that satisfactorily pushed its claim from merely possible to plausible, in a recent opinion from the District of Massachusetts. The analysis is instructive to...more

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