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Cease and Desist Orders Patent Infringement

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Amazon APEX Complaints Convey Personal Jurisdiction in Amazon Seller’s Forum

Most reputable online marketplaces have long offered policing programs to address counterfeiting of registered copyrights and trademarks. The copyright or trademark owner needs only to provide the marketplace with a copy of...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

USITC Commissioner Series: Top Dissenting Issues

Following my colleagues’ efforts in this series, this post examines the dissent/concurrence practice of the Commissioners at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) – specifically the “hot” issues that drew the most...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 16th Annual Practitioners’ Think Tank on ITC Litigation & Enforcement - May 29th - 30th, Washington, DC

Returning to Washington in May, ACI’s 16th Annual Practitioners’ Think Tank on ITC Litigation & Enforcement is your opportunity to learn from and network with key members of the ITC Bench, senior ITC Attorneys and leading...more

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Steps to consider before sending a cease-and-desist letter

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The intellectual property (IP) of your business has value. IP can take several forms, including patent and trademark registrations, or intellectual property rights arising from common law, such as trade secrets, confidential...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2023 ITC Section 337 Year in Review: Analysis & Trends: Looking Beyond Inventory Numbers to Secure a Cease and Desist Order

The Commission may grant a cease and desist order (“CDO”) when it finds a violation of Section 337. See 19 U.S.C. 1337(f)(1). Historically the Commission would grant a CDO upon a showing that a respondent had a “commercially...more

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What to do if a patent owner sends you a cease-and-desist letter

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A cease-and-desist (C&D) letter typically demands that the recipient stop (cease) doing something now and avoid (desist from) doing it in the future, or risk being sued. The steps you take after receiving a C&D letter can...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

What Are The Grounds For A Cease-And-Desist Letter?

If someone is hurting you or your business, one option is to send a cease-and-desist letter (also known as a “demand letter”). What is it, and what are the grounds for a cease and desist letter? This letter informs the...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Esports and IP Rights Series 3: Enforcing IP in a Digital World

As an esports, primarily digital, brand you’ve now taken the proper steps to protect the company’s intellectual property (IP) through registering and proper protections around trade secrets. Now, what happens if you still...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends: ITC: Design Patents Continue to Outperform on Obtaining Remedies at the...

Last year, in our inaugural issue of “The Year in Review,” we reported that since the landmark jury verdict in the IP litigation between Apple and Samsung in 2012, which awarded more than $1B to Apple for infringement of...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2021 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends: US International Trade Commission: Design Patents Outperform on Obtaining...

In May 2020, we reported in an article published by Law360, “design patents outperform utility patents when it comes to injunctive relief.” The same is true when it comes to a rare form of injunctive relief—a general...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2021 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends

This year, we will mark the 10-year anniversary of the first jury verdict in the landmark IP litigation between Apple and Samsung, which resulted in the jury awarding more than $1B to Apple. More than $500M of that award was...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

I Received a “Cease and Desist” Letter – What Should I Do?

Receiving a “cease and desist” letter from a lawyer can be stressful and sometimes confusing, and it’s not always clear whether and how a person should respond.  ...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear Patenticity: Infringed and Weighing a C&D Letter

Dear Patenticity, We recently found that an out-of-state competitor is infringing one of our patents.  I know we need to put a stop to it, but I’m worried about the cease-and-desist letter.  I heard that there was a recent...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - November 2021: Watching the Pot™

ITC to Determine if Importing of Oil-Vape Cartridges to Go Up in Smoke - The ITC recently initiated an investigation into whether 38 manufacturers' imports of oil-vape cartridges used to smoke cannabis and THC infringe a...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - November 2021

The November 2021 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter discusses the emergence of trademark filings for NFTs and a recent ITC patent infringement case regarding imported oil-vape cartridges. In this...more

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When Sending a Cease and Desist Letter Establishes Personal Jurisdiction

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A patentee may establish “minimum contacts” in a forum, thus subjecting itself to specific personal jurisdiction, by sending a cease and desist letter to the forum. Precedent concerning this issue has been evolving....more

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Cease and Desist Letters Need to Balance Effectiveness While Considering Consequences

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Letters demanding that a company “cease and desist” what the sender of the letter deems an infringement of the sender’s intellectual property rights – whether patent, trademark or copyright – are communications primarily to...more

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ITC 337 Quarterly Insider Q2 2020

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Goodwin’s 337 Quarterly Insider remains the premiere publicly available source for keeping up to date on all meaningful decisions coming out of the Commission. Please find below Goodwin’s insights on the months of April, May,...more

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Redesign Cleared Following Adverse Initial Determination

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In an dispute involving garage door openers, Respondent successfully utilized a Modification Proceeding pursuant to 19 U.S.C. § 1337(k) to obtain a determination from the ITC that its redesigned product did not infringe the...more

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District Court denies motion to dismiss despite Federal Circuit’s finding of patent invalidity in appeal of parallel ITC...

On December 5, 2019, Judge David C. Godbey of the Northern District of Texas denied the defendant Diebold Nixdorf, Inc.’s (“Diebold”) motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6), in Nautilus Hyosung Inc. v. Diebold, Inc. et al.,...more

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ITC Imposes Fine for Violating Cease and Desist Order

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In a recent Enforcement Initial Determination, ALJ Shaw held that Sony had violated previously issued cease and desist orders (“CDOs”) and determined that the appropriate penalty was a fine of $210,134 – Sony’s net profit...more

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Trending - Designing Around a Patent as an Alternative to a License

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In some instances in which a company finds itself in the cross-hairs of a patent infringement cease-and-desist letter or lawsuit, a license may not be a viable option. That is often the case when the patent holder is a...more

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Commission Reverses Apple Infringement Finding, Thereby Mooting the Public Interest Inquiry...For Now

On March 26, 2019, the International Trade Commission issued its Final Determination in Certain Mobile Electronic Devices and Radio Frequency and Process Components Thereof, 337-TA-1065. The 1065 Investigation is one of...more

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Commission Cleans Up Remedies for Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

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While it is well understood that the ITC can issue an exclusion order to stop the importation of articles found to infringe a patent, it is not as well known that such orders can also prevent certain domestic activities. A...more

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Five important changes to the Canadian Patent Act now in effect

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The Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2, Statutes of Canada 2018, c.27, received Royal Assent on December 13, 2018. As discussed in our earlier article, this is wide-ranging legislation implementing various provisions of...more

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