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Several new green patent complaints were filed in January and February in the areas of advanced batteries, waste-to-energy feedstocks, energy-efficient exercise... Read More »
Written by Rebecca L. Wright, Ph.D. and Eric Furman, Ph.D.
In an ongoing set of disputes in Oregon between farmers and corporations that hold GMO patents, farmers ... Read More »
In SCA v. First Quality Baby Products, the Supreme Court holds that laches should not be available as a defense in patent cases, refusing to concur with the ... Read More »
Written by Scott Raevsky and David Schmidt, Ph.D.
The PTAB issued an order applying collateral estoppel to determine that one purported owner of U.S. Patent... Read More »
Written by Rebecca L. Wright, Ph.D. and Jonathan Hyman
Edited by Loni Morrow and Catherine Holland
Airwair, the owner of the Dr. Martens brand, recently... Read More »
One more Federal Circuit decisions bites the dust. Today, in SCA Hygiene Products AB v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC, the Supreme Court held that the... Read More »
Written by Scott Raevsky and Mark Rubinshtein, Ph.D.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued concurrent final written decisions upholding the validity of all... Read More »
Written by Peter Heuser, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt
In Nidec v. Zhongshan, the panel reverses a determination of anticipation, noting that the Circuit’s ... Read More »
Last week, the Delaware district court granted Aurobindo’s motion for summary judgment of non-infringement of Reckitt’s patents directed to a... Read More »
Followers of this blog may have recognized through the years an implicit belief in a connection between the sometimes intricate rules of intellectual property and... Read More »
Written by Diana E. Wade and Ian W. Gillies
Edited by Loni Morrow and Catherine Holland
Much like the world of Underland created in Lewis Carroll’s book ... Read More »
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Nandini AnanthInteresting write up
Mar 16, 2017
Couple of weeks ago we reported that Zond ranked first among patent owners with 125 IPR challenges filed against 10 of its patents. This week we delved into the... Read More »
It has been a busy week at the Circuit. In Comcast v. Sprint the Circuit affirms a $7.5 million judgment that includes prejudgment interest running from the date ... Read More »
Written by Jonathan Menkes and Catherine Holland
Edited by Loni Morrow and Jonathan Hyman
Under U.S. trademark law, any person (including a celebrity)... Read More »
About a year ago, Tesla filed two new trademark applications in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – Application Serial Nos. 86/960,133 and 86/960,138 ... Read More »
Last week, we released the top 10 patent owners whose patents had been challenged the most since the inception of Inter-Partes Review (IPR). Zond ranked first with a... Read More »
There are still a number of entities out there trying to trick trademark owners into spending money to list their marks in various on line and print directories by... Read More »
Written by Damien Howard and Michael L. Fuller
Is a patent directed to electronic communications between computing devices patent eligible? As with many... Read More »
Written by Diana E. Wade and Bridget A. Smith
The Federal Circuit held that the PTAB may consider legal conclusions of obviousness by experts, but the expert... Read More »
Written by Scott Raevsky and David T. Kim
In a final written decision, the Board denied a patent owner’s request for a certificate of correction filed... Read More »