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Federal Circuit Finds Loophole Allowing Patents To Cover Later Developed Technologies

In re Entresto, 125 F.4th 1090 (Fed. Cir. 2025) - After Novartis’ patent on the blockbuster blood pressure medication Entresto was found invalid at the district court for covering technology that was developed after the...more

CAFC Lowers Bar for Antisuit Injunctions in SEP Cases 

Ericsson v. Lenovo, Inc., 2024 WL 4558664 (Fed. Cir. 2024) - On October 24, 2024, the Federal Circuit in Ericsson v. Lenovo vacated a district court’s denial of Lenovo’s request for an antisuit injunction in a case...more

Royalty Roulette: When Contract Amendments Disconnect the Patent from the Payment

Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. v. Insall, 2024 WL 3381286 (7th Cir. July 12, 2024) - The 7th Circuit recently upheld an arbitration award and found that royalties may be collected after the expiration of the related...more

PTAB’s Written Description Ruling Goes Up in Smoke as Federal Circuit Clarifies Requirements for Claim Ranges 

Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc. v. Philip Morris Products S.A. (Feb. 9, 2024) - On February 9, 2024, in Rai Strategy Holdings Inc. v. Philip Morris Products S.A., the Federal Circuit vacated the Patent Trial and Appeal...more

Sneaker Parodist Gets Schooled: MSCHF Can’t Sidestep Trademark Infringement by Claiming Artistic Expression

The Second Circuit was the first Circuit Court to address Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC, where the Supreme Court explained that when an alleged trademark infringer relies upon the goodwill of a trademark...more

Separate Companies?  I Think Not – Personal Jurisdiction and the Alter Ego Theory

In a motion to dismiss before the Central District of California, District Judge Garnett made clear that personal jurisdiction stands for the foreign affiliate when the foreign affiliate is merely an “alter ego” of their...more

The Not So Long Arm of the Law: Limits on the Lanham Act

The Supreme Court decided the extraterritorial reach of two provisions of the Lanham Act prohibiting trademark infringement. Abitron appealed the Tenth Circuit’s decision that the Lanham Act extended to Abitron’s foreign...more

Automating Without Innovating: Patents Held Invalid

People.ai, Inc. v. Clari Inc., 2022-1364, (Fed. Cir. April. 7, 2023) - In an appeal before the Federal Circuit, plaintiff People.ai argued to no avail that the Northern District of California erred in its finding of...more

Maintaining § 101 “Till the Cows Come Home”: ChromaDex, Inc. v. Elysium Health, Inc., 2022-1116, (Fed. Cir. Feb. 13, 2023)

In a patent dispute between plaintiffs ChromaDex and Dartmouth College and defendant Elysium Health over spilled milk, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Delaware District Court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the...more

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