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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Federal Circuit Finds Personal Jurisdiction in an Amazon Product Dispute

In SnapRays, d/b/a SnapPower v. Lighting Defense Group, the Federal Circuit found that a district court could exercise personal jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment defendant based on the defendant’s sending an Amazon...more

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Prime Delivery: Amazon Program Now Offers Personal Jurisdiction to Patent Holders

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Addressing the issue of personal jurisdiction in the context of a declaratory judgment case involving a program for resolving patent infringement claims, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that a patent...more

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The Choice Is Not Yours: Foreign Defendants Cannot Avoid Personal Jurisdiction by Post-suit, Unilateral Forum Designation

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IN RE: STINGRAY IP SOLUTIONS, LLC - Before Lourie, Taranto, and Stark.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Summary: A defendant’s post-suit, unilateral consent to suit in...more

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Federal Circuit Review - April 2022

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A Construction That Eliminates the Entire Scope of Dependent Claims Should Be Avoided - Littelfuse, Inc. v. Mersen USA Ep Corp., Appeal No. 21-2013, the Federal Circuit vacated a claim construction that violated the doctrine...more

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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

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Federal Circuit Narrows Venue for Patent Infringement Suits Under the Hatch-Waxman Act

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The Federal Circuit Thursday issued a decision that narrows the venue options available to patent owners bringing suit against generic drug manufacturers under the Hatch-Waxman Act. In a unanimous decision, the court held...more

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[Webinar] CLE Institute - Can They Own That? A Summary of the Biggest Patent and Trademark Cases and Trends of 2020. - October...

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This program will cover important patent and trademark trends and cases in 2020, including: - The Trademark Modernization (TM) Act of 2020 - Counterfeiting: Tiffany v. Costco - Transformation from Generic to Protectable:...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Intellectual Property - Patents - The World in U.S. Courts: Winter 2019

Taiwanese Manufacturer of Smartphones Subject to Personal Jurisdiction in Texas in Patent Infringement Case Because of its Allegedly Purposeful Efforts to Serve the US Market, Even Though all US Distribution was Orchestrated...more

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Northern District of California Holds That Patent Suit Against Only Foreign Entities Is Permissible Even Where Inclusion of...

A recent order from the Northern District of California in AU Optronics Corporation America v. Vista Peak Ventures, LLC, 4:18-cv-04638 (CAND 2019-02-19) (“AU Optronics”), provides further guidance for patent venue analysis...more

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U.S. + German Patent Update – January 2019

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Hogan Lovells’ U.S. + German Patent Update reports on recent patent news and cases from Germany and the United States. The January 2019 spotlight article covers a recent Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) decision in...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

A Stealth Upheaval In Patent Personal Jurisdiction?

In 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court issued TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, which was a game changer for patent venue. The case drastically narrowed where defendants can be sued and shifted a significant amount...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - December 2018 #2

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. v. Plano Encryption Technologies LLC, Appeal No. 2016-2700 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 7, 2018) On Friday, the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Intellectual Property - Patents - The World in U.S. Courts: Summer - Fall 2018

Dutch Parent Exercises Insufficient Control over US Subsidiary to be Deemed its "Alter Ego" - Britax Child Safety, Inc. v. Nuna International B.V., US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, July 26, 2018....more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

A Sales Agent’s Home Office May Qualify as a Regular and Established Place of Business

In our continued post-TC Heartland coverage, the Southern District of New York recently held that an employee’s home office in New York constituted a “regular and established place of business” in the state as required by the...more

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Can retrieving materials from a storage unit qualify as engaging in business activity for purposes of establishing proper patent...

According to a recent decision from the Southern District of New York, no. In our continued post-TC Heartland coverage, the court in CDX Diagnostic, Inc. v. U.S. Endoscopy Group, Inc. clarified that a storage unit does not...more

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Federal Circuit Clarifies Venue Rule for Foreign Defendants Post-TC Heartland

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The Federal Circuit today in In re HTC Corp., Misc. 2018-130 (May 5, 2018), followed the holding of the Supreme Court in Brunette Machine Works, Ltd. v. Kockum Industries, Inc., 406 U.S. 706 (1972), that venue is proper as to...more

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Doctrine of “Ancillary Venue” Does Not Trump TC Heartland

Further to our ongoing coverage of post-TC Heartland patent litigation, in a recent development from the Northern District of Illinois, the court granted counterclaim defendants’ motion to dismiss for improper venue. In Shure...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The World in U.S. Courts - Winter 2018

French Bank Whose Transactions Benefitted Sudan Generally, But Were Not Otherwise Related To The Commission Of Terrorist Acts Supported By Sudan, Could Not Have Violated ATA And ATS....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The World In U.S. Courts - Fall 2017

FSIA Does Not Exempt US Bank from Subpoena for Production of Records of Accounts Maintained by Central Bank of Nigeria - The World in U.S. Courts: Fall 2017 - Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA)/Political Question Doctrine....more

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Patent Venue: The Federal Circuit Resolves Widespread Disagreement Among District Courts

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In Micron Technology, the Federal Circuit resolved widespread disagreement about TC Heartland and motions to transfer venue in patent cases. The Federal Circuit held that TC Heartland changed controlling law and, thus, that...more

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Recent US Court Decision Addresses Patent Infringement Dispute Between Two Finnish Companies - The World in U.S. Courts: September...

The World in U.S. Courts was launched as a quarterly publication almost five years ago to catalogue new U.S. court decisions discussing some of the unique risks and opportunities for parties based in other countries. A few...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

High Court Limits Where Patent Suits Can Be Filed

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Venue in a patent litigation is limited to the alleged infringer’s state of incorporation or where the defendant has committed infringing acts and has a regular and established place of business....more

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New Venue Considerations May Shape Patent Litigation after TC Heartland

The Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, unanimously holding that, for the purpose of the patent venue statute 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), “a domestic corporation...more

Fenwick & West LLP

#AliceStorm: April Update and the Impact of TC Heartland on Patent Eligibility

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The Supreme Court’s recent decision on patent venue, TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands, may actually turn out to be a good thing for patentees when it comes to Section 101. But before we get to that, let’s do the...more

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