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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Slicing Through Insufficient Evidence of Infringement, Willfulness, and Damages

The sufficiency of evidence required to support a denial of a motion for judgment as a matter of law and a motion for a new trial for infringement, willful infringement, and damages....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - October 2024 #4

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Ericsson AB, Ericsson, Inc. v. Lenovo (United States), Inc. et. al., Appeal No. 2024-1515 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 24, 2024) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit clarified that, for an...more

J.S. Held

Case Law Update: Timing of Technical Expert Analysis of Non-Infringing Alternatives in Smart Path Connections

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Recent case law may impact the timing of defendant technical expert analysis and opinion regarding non-infringing alternatives in patent infringement litigation. On March 13, 2024, Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne, in the United...more

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

Federal Circuit IP Appeals: Summaries of Key 2023 Decisions (8th Edition): In re: PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC, 85 F.4th 1148...

PersonalWeb—the third appeal from a multidistrict litigation involving alleged infringement of PersonalWeb’s patents—addressed two issues: (1) whether the district court abused its discretion in finding the case exceptional...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Cyntec Company, Ltd. v. Chilisin Electronics Corp., Chilisin America Ltd. Nos. 2022-1873, (Fed. Cir. October 16, 2023)

This case is primarily about the Daubert standard as applied to expert testimony on damages. The Federal Circuit reversed the Northern District of California’s admission of expert testimony on damages, which relied on...more

Troutman Pepper

EDVA Judge Rules That Geolocation Patents Are Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101

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On September 18, in identical opinions issued in separate cases against Google and Apple, EDVA District Judge Michael Nachmanoff ruled that four patents directed toward geolocation of mobile devices claimed patent-ineligible...more

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

2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

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

AEON Law

Patent Poetry: Patent License Communications Can Be Basis for Personal Jurisdiction

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The Federal Circuit has held that communications related to buying or licensing patents can form the basis for personal jurisdiction in a patent infringement lawsuit. The case of APPLE INC. v. ZIPIT WIRELESS, INC....more

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Notice Letters and Communications May Form a Basis for Personal Jurisdiction

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APPLE INC. v. ZIPIT WIRELESS, INC. [OPINION]- PRECEDENTIAL - Before Hughes, Mayer and Stoll.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary: Notice letters and related...more

AEON Law

Patent Poetry: Federal Circuit Vacates Non-Infringement Ruling Based on An Erroneous Claim Construction

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The Federal Circuit has vacated and remanded a district court’s ruling of noninfringement because of erroneous claim construction that would leave the dependent claims of a patent with no scope. In Littelfuse, Inc. v....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

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

EMED Technologies Corp. v. Repro-Med Systems, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2020)

In April, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granting summary judgment in favor of Repro-Med Systems, Inc., finding that Repro-Med did not infringe U.S. Patent...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Patent Infringement Suit Against Product Manufacturer Partially Doomed by Prior Suit Against Component Supplier

Chief Judge Saris of the District of Massachusetts has granted-in-part a product manufacturer’s motion seeking summary judgment of claim preclusion based on patentee’s prior assertion of the same patent against a component...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Updates - January 2018

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Core Wireless Licensing v. LG Electronics, Inc. (No. 2016-2684, 2017-1922, 1/25/18) (Moore, O'Malley, Wallach) - Moore, J. Affirming judgment that patent claims directed to improved display interfaces for electronic...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Using Design Patents to Claim Functional Elements???

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A recent opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Sport Dimension, Inc. v. The Coleman Co., No. 2015-1553, 7 (Fed. Cir. 2016), held that design patents can provide protection for ornamental...more

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ITC Section 337 Update – September 2015

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Judge MaryJoan McNamara Appointed New Administrative Law Judge at U.S. International Trade Commission – On August 17, 2015, the ITC issued a news release announcing that Judge MaryJoan McNamara has been appointed as an ALJ....more

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