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Patents Litigation Fees & Costs Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding

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Third Party IPRs Sway District Court’s Prevailing Party and Costs Rulings

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Third-party IPRs can moot previously favorable decisions and leave a previously successful party to bear its own costs. On October 16, 2024, Judge Rodney Gilstrap denied the plaintiff’s Motion to be Confirmed as the...more

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PTO’s Financial Benefits from IPR Don’t Render PTAB Unconstitutional

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A split panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that the structure and functions of the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) survived yet another constitutional challenge, this time based on the...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2020 Decisions: Amneal Pharm. LLC v. Almirall, LLC, 960 F.3d 1368...

Abbreviated new drug (ANDA) applicant Amneal petitioned for an inter partes review (IPR) of Almirall’s patent listed in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Orange Book for a prescription drug to treat acne. Almirall...more

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American Rule Applied to PTAB Attorney’s Fees

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In Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC v. Almirall, LLC, the Federal Circuit recently found 35 U.S.C. § 285 did not authorize the Court awarding attorney’s fees for conduct occurring at the PTAB. No. 2020-1106, 2020 WL 2961939, at *2...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC v. Almirall, LLC  (Fed. Cir. 2020)

In Amneal Pharmacueticals LLC v. Almirall, LLC, the Federal Circuit professed to address a question it had not considered before: whether attorney's fees and a exceptional case determination was available for fees and costs...more

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Costs Awarded to Defendant After Case Dismissed for Mootness

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B.E. TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C. v. FACEBOOK, INC. Before Lourie, Plager, and O’Malley. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. Summary: A decision on the merits is not a prerequisite...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - October 2019 #2

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - HZNP Medicines LLC v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2017-2149, et al. (Fed. Cir. Oct. 10, 2019) - In a lengthy decision following a bench trial, the Court addressed a matter of...more

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Top 5 reasons to consider patent litigation in Canada now

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Canada has historically been a much less active jurisdiction for patent litigation compared to the United States, which can be explained in part by the simple fact that the United States’ market is almost 10 times the size of...more

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