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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 »
Written by Scott Siera, Ph.D. and Michael L. Fuller
Obtaining issued patents in the biotechnology space can be a challenge. Here is a list of ten patent... Read More »
The last few weeks, our Data Science Team analyzed the most active petitioners in Inter-Partes Review (IPR) cases. Now we have turned our attention towards the patent ... Read More »
In Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. [14-1538] (February 22, 2017), the Supreme Court reversed a Federal Circuit decision that supplying a single component of... Read More »
The real news this past week is not from the Circuit but from the Supreme Court’s reversal of the Life Technologies v. Promega case. There, the Supreme Court... Read More »
Written by Caleb A. Bates, Ph.D. and Agnes Juang, Ph.D.
On January 12, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming the... Read More »
In Secure Access, LLC v. PNC BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, [2016-1353] (February 21, 2017), the Federal Circuit vacated the Board’s decision in CBM2014-00100 on... Read More »
This week, our Data Science Team continued reviewing Apple’s IPR cases with a focus on patent owners. We wanted to learn which entities had their patents... Read More »
Written by Daniel K. Yarbrough, Ph.D. and Jing Liu, Ph.D.
Once considered parasites, free riders, or “opportunistic pathogens,” in recent years the... Read More »
Written by Peter Heuser, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt
In Metalcraft, the Circuit affirms a preliminary injunction based largely on the patentee’s... Read More »
Written by Loni Morrow and Jason J. Jardine
Edited by Catherine Holland
It is well known among patent attorneys that design patents are an under-utilized form ... Read More »
In Personal Web Technologies, LLC v. Apple, Inc., [2016-1174] (February 14, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the Board’s claim construction but vacated the... Read More »
Written by Daniel K. Yarbrough, Ph.D. and Nathanael R. Luman, Ph.D.
The PTAB denied institution of an IPR based on patent owner’s challenge to the prior art ... Read More »