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Ex-Yahoo! Patents Asserted Against Fashion Retainer Shein

In the early to mid-2000s, Yahoo! worked to develop and refine its search engine capabilities.  During this period, Yahoo! obtained U.S. Patent Nos. 8,341,157, 7,698,329, 8,209,317, 9,805,097, and 8,527,623, which are...more

Knobbe Martens

Claim Construction When Uniformly Referring to Aspects of an Invention

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Chewy, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corporation - Before Moore, Chief Judge, Stoll and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....more

McDermott Will & Emery

PTO Introduces Trademark Decisions and Proceedings Search Tool

On February 17, 2023, the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) announced the launch of the new Trademark Decisions and Proceedings Search Tool. This tool allows users to filter and search expungement and reexamination...more

Holland & Knight LLP

U.S. District Judge: Method of Determining Webpage Visitor Intent Is Abstract

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In USC IP Partnership, L.P. v. Facebook, Inc., 2021 WL 6690275, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas found U.S. Patent No. 8,645,300 invalid under 35 U.S.C. §101...more

McDermott Will & Emery

PTO Launches New Patent Public Search Tool and Webpage

On February 1, 2022, the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) announced a new Patent Public Search tool similar to the search tools used by patent examiners to provide more convenient and robust full-text searching of all US...more

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

MarkIt to Market® - December 2021

The December 2021 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter discusses new enforcement tools courtesy of the Trademark Modernization Act; Pfizer's acquisition of Arena Pharmaceuticals; the latest developments in...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

GEMSA’s Patent Onslaught Against Cloud Computing Customers

Global Equity Management (SA) Pty. Ltd. (“GEMSA”), a foreign non-practicing entity (“NPE”) organized under the laws of Australia, filed almost 40 patent lawsuits in five batches in 2015 and 2016. The majority of these...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The World in US Courts: Orrick's Quarterly Review of Decisions Applying US Law to Global Business and Cross-Border Activities

Alien Tort Statute (ATS)/Political Question Doctrine/Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA)/ Act of State Doctrine - District Court Dismisses ATS Claim Where Alleged Conduct in US was not Directly Linked to Injuries...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Federal Circuit Resolves Divided Infringement Dispute by Broadening “Direction and Control” Standard

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, on remand from the United States Supreme Court, recently held that certain method claims in a patent owned by Akamai Technologies were infringed by Akamai’s...more

Polsinelli

Akamai Ruling: Mobile App and Website Owners Beware

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Last week the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (“Federal Circuit”) “changed the game” for parties, including website and mobile app owners that work in tandem with end users, to practice the steps of a patent. In Akamai...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Sarvint Retains Jurisdiction in the Northern District in Another Order from Judge Batten

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Judge Batten denied a motion brought by Carré Technologies, Inc. (“Carré”) to dismiss[i] apatent infringement action brought by Sarvint Technologies, Inc. (“Sarvint”) for lack of personal jurisdiction. The Court began by...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Solving Problems Unique to the Internet May Be Patent-Eligible - DDR Holdings, LLC, v. Hotels.com, L.P.

In another decision sculpting the contours of what is patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit determined that an invention that combined one webpage with a...more

McDermott Will & Emery

On a Plain and Ordinary Meaning of “Embedded” Code in a Web Page

Augme Techs., Inc. v. Yahoo! Inc. - Addressing a district court’s construction of the claim term “embedded” code as code “written into the HTML code of the web page” and the related summary judgment of non-infringement...more

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