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Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Subcontracting Lessons on Indemnity Provisions, Consistency of Contract Terms and Estoppel From the SC Court of Appeals

The Retreat at Charleston National Country Club Home Owners Ass’n, Inc. v. Winston Carlyle Charleston National, LLC, S.C. App. Case No. 2021-001050, Opinion No. 6099 (Feb. 12, 2025) Key Takeaways: Case Summary (for those of...more

Sunstein LLP

Collateral (Patent) Damage Undone by Federal Circuit?

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In Kroy IP Holdings v. Groupon, The Federal Circuit issued a decision that should come as a comfort to patent owners, addressing the interplay between decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) in inter partes...more

Carlton Fields

Florida Appeals Court Decisions Week of March 24 - 28, 2025

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U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals  - USA v. Murat - sentencing - Johnson v. Fla DOC - Confrontation Clause, medical report - US Sugar v. US Army Corp of Eng’rs - administrative challenge, Everglades...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

The Precedent: The Federal Circuit Clarifies When Collateral Estoppel Applies Following Inter Partes Review Proceedings in Kroy IP...

In this edition of The Precedent, we outline the Federal Circuit's decision in Kroy IP Holdings, LLC v. Groupon, Inc. Overview - The Federal Circuit held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) finding of...more

Knobbe Martens

Federal Circuit Review | February 2025

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In HD Silicon Solutions LLC V. Microchip Technology Inc., Appeal No. 23-1397, the Federal Circuit held that  all but one patent claim were invalid as obvious because the claimed material, as properly construed, was disclosed...more

Adams and Reese LLP

South Carolina Ruling Has Major Implications on Indemnity Provisions and Collateral Estoppel

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South Carolina contractors need to be aware of a recent decision by the South Carolina Court of Appeals that clarifies the landscape for indemnity provisions in contracts and introduces critical consideration regarding the...more

Hudnell Law Group

Differing Burdens of Proof Limits Estoppel Effect of PTAB Final Written Decision

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On February 10, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Kroy IP Holdings, LLC v. Groupon, Inc., reversing and remanding a district court ruling that had dismissed Kroy’s patent...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Collateral Estoppel Doesn’t Apply to Unchallenged IPR Claims

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The US Court Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that despite a Patent Trial & Appeal Board determination that certain challenged patent claims were unpatentable based on a preponderance of the evidence standard, the patent...more

WilmerHale

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Federal Circuit Orders Remanded Case Reassigned to New Judge, Finding That Trial Judge’s Statements...

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - HD SILICON SOLUTIONS LLC v. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC. [OPINION] (2023-1397, 2/6/2025) (Lourie, Stoll, Cunningham) - Lourie, J. The Board affirmed the Final Written...more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Federal Circuit Clarifies Patent Claim Assertion After PTAB Unpatentability Decisions

On February 10, the Federal Circuit held in Kroy IP Holdings, LLC v. Groupon, Inc. that a final written decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) concluding that certain claims are unpatentable does not prevent the...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Can Prior Acts Previously Adjudicated to Not Amount to Domestic Violence Be Raised in a Future Domestic Violence Proceeding?

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Sadly, it is not uncommon for parties to be “frequent flyers” in domestic violence court. Sometimes, the same party files and dismisses one or more times. Sometimes, parties settle with “civil restraints” or an Order in the...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Key Federal Circuit Patent Rulings Impacting Your Business - Recent Rulings - January 2025

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Contour IP v. GoPro: Federal Circuit Offers Insight into Alice’s Step One Analysis. In Contour IP v. GoPro, the Federal Circuit reversed a summary judgment order invalidating two of Contour IP’s patents directed to...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

To be or Not to Be (a Member). That is the Question… That Estoppel Can Help Answer.

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Evidence of ownership. Necessary in business divorce. Not always so easy to prove. Today’s case— Xiaoyan Lu v Sagewood SFF III LLC, 2024 NY Slip Op 05895 (1st Dept 2024)—gives an example of how far (or not) the doctrines of...more

Mayer Brown

Corporate Veil Piercing Remains Powerful Tool in New York-Seated Arbitrations

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In October 2024 an attempt by Egyptian businessman Michel Lakah to set aside a 2018 ICDR award was rejected by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”), marking what the Respondent...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Purdue Pharma L.P v. Accord Healthcare Inc. - OxyContin® (oxycodone HCl)

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Case Name: Purdue Pharma L.P v. Accord Healthcare Inc., Civ. No. 22-913-WCB, 2024 WL 4120717 (D. Del. Sept 9, 2024) (Bryson, J.) Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: OxyContin® (oxycodone HCl); U.S. Patent No. 11,304,908 (“the...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The PTAB Review - October 2024

The PTAB Review begins by exploring collateral estoppel from unpatentability determinations in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. Next, it summarizes recent developments at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office relevant to...more

Gray Reed

An Oil and Gas Receivership Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over

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Remnant LLC v. Permico Royalties LLC, et al determined that a 90-year-old claim to ownership of a forfeited corporation was not valid. The players - Hoffman: By most accounts a scoundrel and con man who plied his...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Got Pillaged? Not If You Didn’t Follow the APA and FTCA

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court decision dismissing claims under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) against the US Patent & Trademark Office...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Third Quarter 2024 Federal Circuit Law Update

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Since serving as a Federal Circuit clerk, Michael Hawes has monitored that court's precedential opinions and prepares a deeply outlined index by subject matter (invalidity, infringement, claim construction, etc.) of relevant...more

McDermott Will & Emery

A New Vision: Collateral Estoppel Doesn’t Extend to Related Claims

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court order excluding expert validity testimony based on collateral estoppel stemming from an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding of a related patent,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Different Evidentiary Burdens in IPR Proceedings and District Court Means No Collateral Estoppel Effect on Related Patent Claims

After ten years of litigation, the Federal Circuit found that the district court conducted an improper collateral estoppel analysis and upheld ParkerVision’s position on each of the appealed issues. Background - In...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: An Expert Need Not Have Acquired the Requisite Skill Level Prior to the Time of the Invention

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION v. APPLE INC. [OPINION] (2022-1884, 8/28/2024) (Prost, Taranto, and Chen) - Prost, J. The Court affirmed two final judgments of the...more

Fenwick & West LLP

En banc Hearing Petition Filed on Recent Fed. Circ. Collateral Estoppel Decision

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The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has sparked debate following a recent ruling on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) application of estoppel provisions in invalidating amended claims in inter partes...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me: Res Judicata and Ownership Claims Post Foreclosure

The Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Westchester, recently held that the doctrine of res judicata bars a lender’s claim that a borrower’s subsequent transfers of property are void, if the claim is brought...more

Freiberger Haber LLP

Collateral Estoppel Held Not To Bar Later-Filed Malpractice Action

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In Villaver v. Paglinawan, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 04159 (2d Dept. Aug. 7, 2024) (here), the Appellate Division, Second Department reversed the dismissal of a legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, and intentional infliction...more

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