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

2024 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends – 2024 PTAB Case Highlights

Abuse of Process and/or Sanctions – 37 C.F.R. § 42.12 - Spectrum Solutions LLC v. Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics, LLC, IPR2021-00847, IPR2021-00850, IPR2021-00854, IPR2021-00857 & IPR2021-00860 - Decision...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Silvergate Pharms., Inc. v. Bionpharma Inc.

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Epaned® (enalapril maleate) - Case Name: Silvergate Pharms., Inc. v. Bionpharma Inc., Civ. Nos. 18-cv-1962, 19-cv-1067, 2024 WL 4417104 (D. Del. Oct. 4, 2024) (Goldberg, J.)  Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Epaned®...more

DLA Piper

Feeble § 101 Litigation Position Results in Significant Award of Fees and Costs

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The District Court of Delaware recently confirmed an award of $9.15 million in attorney’s fees and costs to defendant Elysium Health, Inc. (Elysium), resulting from what it determined to be insubstantial litigation positions...more

Erise IP

Eye on IPRs: November 2024: USPTO Director to Step Down, Did Fed. Circuit DISH Asks Full Fed. Cir. Panel to Reconsider Vacating...

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Every month, Erise’s patent attorneys review the latest inter partes review cases and news to bring you the stories that you should know about: USPTO Director Vidal to Step Down - On November 12, Under Secretary of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Federal Circuit Clarifies Requisite Analysis for Unclean Hands, Inequitable Conduct, Summary Judgement Determinations of...

Luv N’ Care, Ltd. and Nouri E. Hakim v. Lindsey Laurain and Eazy-PZ, LLC, Nos. 2022-1905, 2022-1970 (Fed. Cir. April 12, 2024) addressed several issues, including: (1) what evidence of litigation misconduct may support a...more

Morgan Lewis

Federal Circuit Confirms Boundaries of Fee Recovery Under 35 USC § 285

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In Dragon Intellectual Property LLC v. DISH Network LLC, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressed an “exceptional” set of circumstances concerning the recovery of attorney fees in district court litigation...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Make Sure You Behave and Keep Those Hands Clean: How Deceit and Bad Table Manners Can Bite

Last week in Luv n’ Care, Ltd. v. Laurain, the Federal Circuit put the lower court in time out and probably made Eazy-PZ, LLC (EZPZ) cry just a little bit harder. In this precedential decision involving U.S. Patent No....more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Judge Rakoff Orders Lab-Made Diamond Maker to Pay Fees for Manufacturing Fake Claims

On February 21, 2024, Judge Rakoff (S.D.N.Y) granted a defendant’s motion for attorney’s fees and costs in Carnegie Institute of Technology v. Fenix Diamonds. The Carnegie Institution for Science and its patent licensee, the...more

Jones Day

PTAB Issues Sanctions for Attempted Extortion During “Settlement Negotiations”

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Director Vidal recently issued sanctions against OpenSky Industries (“OpenSky”) for attempted extortion during settlement negotiations and abuse of the IPR process for US Patent 7,725,759 and awarded $413,264.15 to VLSI...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

The Hapless Case of the Hookless Defendants: A Cautionary Tale on Treble Damages and Costly Attorneys’ Fees

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Launching a product, even a simple one, can be lucrative, but also presents risks, not the least of which is patent infringement. Before selling a product, it is wise to invest in patent clearance advice, which includes an...more

Haug Partners LLP

A U.S. View on the UPC – Part 5: Of Costs and Fees (and Getting Them Back)

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On June 1, 2023, the new European Unified Patent Court (UPC) will open its doors, and enforcement of European patents in (currently) 17 contract member states will be possible with one action. This series of articles –...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Blunt Rejection of Attorney Fees in Stipulated Dismissal

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the rejection of attorney fees, finding that neither inequitable conduct nor a conflict of interest rendered the case exceptional given the limited factual record...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - May 2023 #2

Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., Appeal No. 2021-1981 (Fed. Cir. May 9, 2023) In our Case of the Week, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit considered the “analogous art” inquiry in...more

Knobbe Martens

Stipulated Dismissal Undercuts Bid for Attorneys’ Fees

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UNITED CANNABIS CORPORATION V. PURE HEMP COLLECTIVE INC. Before Lourie, Cunningham, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Summary: The Federal Circuit affirmed the...more

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

2021 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Love it or hate it, ignore the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at your peril. The introduction of the PTAB as part of the America Invents Act over ten years ago has forever changed...more

Knobbe Martens

Enforcing a Patent Known to be Invalid Can Trigger Attorneys’ Fees

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ENERGY HEATING, LLC v. HEAT ON-THE-FLY, LLC - Before Moore, Prost, and Stoll.  Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota. Summary: Enforcing a patent with knowledge that it is invalid can...more

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Willful Infringement Does Not Require “Wanton, Malicious, and Bad-Faith” Behavior

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SRI INTERNATIONAL, INC. v. CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. Before LOURIE, O’MALLEY, and STOLL. Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Applying the proper test for willful...more

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Canadian courts show trend of awarding higher costs in IP litigation

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Every IP litigant has the same questions on their mind: “If I win, how much of my legal costs can I recover? And if I lose, how much will I have to pay?” These are important questions, and the answers now may be different...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

The American Rule Is Still the Rule

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Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc., No. 18-801 (December 11, 2019) - Yesterday, the Supreme Court overruled a recent interpretation of 35 USC §145 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Summer 2019

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In This Issue - A Looming AI War: Transparency v. IP Rights - As artificial intelligence systems become more prevalent in daily life, efforts to create a unifying set of AI principles have intensified. In the past few...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Specific Factual Allegations of Inventive Concept Defeat Motion to Dismiss

Addressing patent eligibility at the motion to dismiss stage of a case, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a district court’s grant of a motion to dismiss, finding that the district court improperly...more

Fish & Richardson

Minnesota Patent Litigation Wrap-Up – May 2019

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This post continues our monthly summary of patent litigation in the District of Minnesota, including short summaries of various substantive orders issued in pending cases....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - December 2018 #3

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - VirnetX Inc. v. Apple, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2017-2490, -2494 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 10, 2018) The Federal Circuit affirmed two final written decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”), which...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases

Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2016-2121, -2208, -2235 (Fed. Cir. 2018)?- In an appeal from a jury trial, the Federal Circuit addressed numerous issues...more

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Google Gets Their Attorneys’ Fees Back for Having to Fight Off a Weak Patent Infringement Suit

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Judgments and Awards - On September 25, 2017, a federal court in San Jose, CA awarded the Defendants Google, YouTube, and On2 Technologies $820,321.41 in attorney’s fees. The Court previously held the Plaintiff Max Sound...more

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