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The Second Time’s a Charm: In New Damages Trial, Texas Jury More than Doubles Lump-Sum Award Against Samsung for Infringing Two...

On April 17, 2024, a second Texas jury assessed damages of $142 million against Samsung, more than doubling a previous jury award of $67.5 in a protracted standard essential patent (SEP) litigation brought by G+...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

USPTO Issues Guidance on Use of AI Based Tools

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued guidance on the use of AI-based tools to prepare and prosecute patent and trademark applications. This announcement supplements the previous guidance issued in February....more

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USPTO Issues Guidance on Using Artificial Intelligence Tools

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On April 10, 2024, the United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) announced guidance regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools before the USPTO. ...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

To Mark or Not to Mark? U.S. Patent Holders Should Take Time to Carefully Consider Their Patent Marking

It’s never a bad time for companies holding U.S. patents to assess their patent marking strategy and compliance. Patent marking is often neglected or relegated to the marketing team, but it shouldn’t be. Whether what and how...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Judge Gilstrap: For Implementers of SEPs, the Penitent Will Pass

According to Judge Gilstrap in the Eastern District of Texas, obligations to negotiate under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms apply not only to standard essential patent (SEP) holders but to implementers...more

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Noteworthy Points in the Rules for the Implementation of China’s Patent Law 2023

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Recently, the new Rules for the Implementation of Patent Law (hereinafter referred to as "the Rules") has been approved and promulgated by the State Council, and will come into force on January 20, 2024. There are many...more

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USPTO Launches Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program

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On December 1, the United States Patent and Trademark Office launched the Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program. As part of the Office’s efforts to support the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS)...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

USPTO Pilot Program Expedites Examination of Patent Applications Directed to Semiconductor Manufacturing In Support of CHIPS Act

Key Takeaways - To support the CHIPS Act of 2022, the USPTO initiated a pilot program that provides expedited examination of certain patent applications directed to manufacturing semiconductor devices, potentially reducing...more

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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

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What to Know About the USPTO’s Duty of Candor Guidance Regarding FDA Submissions

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​​​​​​​By now you have seen multiple reports discussing the PTO’s Notice of July 29, 2022, relating to the duties of candor and good faith. Federal Register, Vol. 87, No. 145, July 29, 2022....more

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Hit the Brakes: Experimental Use, Enhanced Damages Determinations Require Redo

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded a district court decision regarding experimental use under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) and the application of enhanced damages based on an allegedly flawed...more

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Patent Invalidity Doesn’t Demonstrate Good Faith for Consent Order Violation

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a US International Trade Commission (ITC) decision upholding a civil penalty for violating a consent order based on a patent that was later found to be invalid...more

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Biden’s DOJ Signals Return to Pre-Trump Administration Standard Essential Patent Policies

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In remarks on September 29, 2021, a senior official from the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) outlined the agency’s shift in approach to issues surrounding technology industry standards. The remarks foreshadowed...more

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USPTO Issues Guidance on Prophetic Examples

On July 1, the USPTO published a notice in the Federal Register with guidance regarding the proper presentation of prophetic and working examples in a patent application. Prophetic examples (sometimes referred to as “paper...more

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FRAND And Efficient Infringement

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For more than a decade, public policymakers, competition agencies, courts, and government authorities around the world have been developing an increasingly detailed set of rules governing and defining fair, reasonable, and...more

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Dutch Court of Appeal gives further guidance on FRAND license negotiations

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The Court of Appeal of The Hague has again given guidance on the interpretation of the CJEU decision in Huawei v ZTE and the standards for assessing FRAND defences under Dutch law. In its decision of 2 July 2019, less than...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Score This One in Favor of Standard-Essential Patent Owners: Recent Decision Makes Satisfying FRAND Obligations Easier

A recent decision in the Eastern District of Texas should provide standard-essential patent (“SEP”) owners with more clarity and optimism when negotiating SEP licenses. Coming on the heels of Judge Koh’s decision in the FTC’s...more

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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

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

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

Proskauer - New England IP Blog

Court Extinguishes Parties’ Motions to Strike in LED Patent Dispute

Although motions to strike are generally difficult to win, when successful they can significantly dim the opposing party’s prospects for victory on particular claims or defenses. In one recent patent infringement action out...more

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Janssen and Celltrion: Remicade Biosimilar Patent Dance

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Janssen Biotech Inc. and Celltrion Healthcare have taken the next step over Janssen’s blockbuster arthritis biologic medicine Remicade (infliximab) and Celltrion’s biosimilar, as required by the Biologics Price Competition...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Janssen v. Celltrion, Damages: “Patent Dance” May Determine Availability of Lost Profits

On March 2, 2017, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued an order in Janssen v. Celltrion explaining that an accused patent infringer’s failure to fully engage in the Biologics Price...more

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New Rules in the Northern District of California Aim to Encourage Patent Case Settlements

New rules for patent cases in the Northern District of California will significantly affect litigation and settlement of cases in Silicon Valley’s backyard. Lawyers litigating cases in the district after the January 17, 2017...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

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