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A Delaware jury awarded automated milkshake maker, f’real Foods, approximately $3.2 million in damages based on Hamilton Beach’s and Hershey... Read More »
PTAB Cements Institutional Discretion
Back in January, I identified the Board’s expanding view of 314(a) discretion as the most significant development of... Read More »
A Delaware jury awarded Hologic $4.2 million in lost profit patent damages and more than half a million dollars in reasonable royalty patent damages, based on Minerva ... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
ThermoLife Int’l LLC v. GNC Corp., Appeal Nos. 2018-1657, 2018-1666 (Fed. Cir. May 1, 2019)
In an appeal from a district court... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
Neptune Generics, LLC v. Eli Lilly & Co., Appeal Nos. 2018-1257, et al. (Fed. Cir. Apr. 26, 2019)
The Federal Circuit issued only one... Read More »
Simultaneous/Redundant Petitions Attacking Same Claims Questioned
The Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s (PTAB) new focus on institution equities of serial... Read More »
Federal Register Notice Advertises Alternative PTAB Amendment Options
Last Friday the USPTO published a notice in the Federal Register entitled: Notice Regarding... Read More »
Three years ago, we started publishing the Patexia Insight Series with our first article about the Shortage of Patent Attorneys in the U.S. A lot has changed since... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Unifrax I LLC, Appeal No. 2017-2575 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 17, 2019)
Our featured case of the week revolved... Read More »
CAFC Upholds Injunction to Shut Down PTAB
The AIA statutes provide that a person who is not the owner of a patent, can challenge the patent at the Patent Trial... Read More »
Before Moore, Mayer, and Linn. Appeal from the Patent and Trial Appeal Board.
Summary: A graphical user interface that allows users to place orders... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
Omega Patents, LLC v. CalAmp Corp., Appeal No. 2018-1309 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 8, 2019)
In an appeal from a series of post-trial decisions, the... Read More »
Director Encouraged to Do What He is Already Doing?
At several bar events over the past few weeks, the Director has made clear that the agency is “looking... Read More »
Unchallenged Claim Falls on Summary Judgement
Back in 2016, I flagged a few district court decisions that leveraged Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB)... Read More »
First quarter of 2019 is behind us and patent litigation continues its downward trend, which was started back in 2015. In the first quarter of 2019, total of 825... Read More »
A Florida judge recently entered a permanent injunction against a handful of Florida businesses and their owner, barring them from further infringing a patent... Read More »
Justice Dept. Defends Challenge to APJ Appointments
The latest constitutional challenge to the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) involves the Appointments... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
Grunenthal GMBH v. Alkem Labs., Ltd., Appeal Nos. 2017-1153, -2048, -2049, -2050 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 28, 2019)
This week the Federal Circuit... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
SRI Int’l, Inc. v. Cisco Sys., Inc., Appeal No. 2017-2223 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 20, 2019)
In a decision following trial, the... Read More »
A little over a year ago, the patent-eligibility of software inventions was very bleak. Examiners maintained difficult Alice-based rejections (rejecting the claims as ... Read More »
