In Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools Inc. v. International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit held that an expert must meet the definition of a “person of ordinary skill in the art” of the asserted patents in order to opine...more
A district court recently precluded a patent attorney from testifying as an expert in a patent infringement lawsuit where the proposed expert lacked the requisite technical expertise to assist the trier of fact in...more
The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a decision by the District Court for the Northern District of California when it failed to consider joining the patent owner before dismissing a case in which the licensee possessed...more
6/25/2019
/ Article III ,
Dismissals ,
Exclusive Licenses ,
FRCP 19 ,
Joinder ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Ownership ,
Patents ,
Precedential Opinion ,
Remand ,
Standing ,
Subject Matter Jurisdiction ,
Transfer of Rights ,
Vacated
On September 10, 2018, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) determining that there was no interference in fact between the University of California’s (“UC”) U.S. Patent...more
9/24/2018
/ Appeals ,
CRISPR ,
Interference Claims ,
Life Sciences ,
Nonobvious ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Ownership ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Reaffirmation ,
Standard of Review ,
Substantial Evidence Standard ,
University of California