Patents, Motion To Intervene

No Blank Check: Vendor Can’t Claim Declaratory Judgment From Customer Lawsuits Alone

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/19/2025

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a declaratory judgment action, explaining that declaratory judgment jurisdiction does not “arise merely on the basis that a party learns...more

Someone Has to Stand Up: Judge Clarke Permits Developer of Crypto Protocol to Intervene in Action Against the Protocol Itself

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 10/9/2023

On September 25, 2023, Judge Jessica Clarke (S.D.N.Y.) granted third party Compound Lab, Inc.'s ("Compound Labs”) motion to intervene in a patent infringement action filed by True Return Systems LLC (“True Return”) against...more

Idaho AG Wasden Moves to Intervene Against Alleged Patent Trolls

Cozen O'Connor on 9/9/2022

Idaho AG Lawrence Wasden has filed motions to intervene [Law360 paywall] in two related patent lawsuits. In so doing, AG Wasden seeks to defend the constitutionality of a 2014 Idaho statute, the Bad Faith Assertions of Patent...more

When International Trade and Patent Law Overlap: One World Techs., Inc. v. United States Slip Op. 18-173 (Ct. Int’l Trade 2018)...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 2/22/2019

From time to time, international trade and patent law matters overlap. We expect to see these interactions in disputes filed pursuant to Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1337). In other instances, the U.S....more

Affirmative Defense of Invalidity As Part of a Motion to Intervene Does Not Bar Filing of a Subsequent IPR Petition

Troutman Pepper on 3/28/2016

According to 35 U.S.C. §315(a), an inter partes review may not be instituted if, before the date on which the petition for such a review is filed, the petitioner or real party in interest filed a civil action challenging the...more

Magistrate Recommends Granting Motion To Intervene

Morris James LLP on 11/11/2015

Hospital seeks to intervene in order to press its claim of ownership of patent and certain related patent applications. The court finds that the four elements required to be proven in order to intervene are met. The motion...more