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Patent damages for sales abroad - potential expansion of the law

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American patent law is evolving to allow damages for foreign sales of infringing products. Both American companies making sales abroad and foreign companies with exposure to American supply chains should take note. Previous...more

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English Court of Appeal makes Emotional Perception neural network hard to patent

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There is no special treatment for neural networks when it comes to UK patenting of computer related inventions. That is the essence of the English Court of Appeal’s conclusion, led by a Judge with a keen interest in computer...more

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Patent Poetry: Federal Circuit Finds No Motive to Combine in Laser Projector Patent Case

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The Federal Circuit has reversed a finding by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) that certain challenged claims of a patent for a method for aligning a laser projector with respect to a work surface are...more

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Shifting Strategies in U.S. Intellectual Property Disputes: Lessons from 2023

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For Taiwanese corporates developing critical technologies in the face of shifting global supply chains, the need to protect intellectual property assets has never been more pressing. The biggest IP-related drag on company...more

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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

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Failure to Prove “Prior” Art Results in Denial

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The PTAB recently denied IPR institution in Sophos v. Open Text because the petitioner failed to show a reasonable likelihood that the asserted reference was, in fact, prior art.  IPR2023-00732, Paper 23 (November 2, 2023)....more

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Mind Your Ps and Qs, and Your PTAs Too

Last week, the Federal Circuit held that obviousness-type double patenting trumps patent term adjustment, opening the door for invalidity attacks that to date had been questionable. In re Cellect was an appeal from a...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

2023 Federal Circuit Case Summaries

We are excited to share Sheppard Mullin’s inaugural quarterly report on key Federal Circuit decisions. The Spring 2023 Quarterly Report provides summaries of most key patent law-related decisions from January 1, 2023 to March...more

Knobbe Martens

Intellectual Property Cases Dominate 2016 Verdict Awards

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According to the annual Top 100 Verdicts report by ALM’s VerdictSearch, five jury verdicts for Intellectual Property cases cracked the top 10 with a sixth breaking into the top 25 verdicts of 2016. While the amounts do not...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2015)

1. Background - In 2006, Akamai Technologies ("Akamai") sued Limelight Networks, Inc. ("Limelight") in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,108,703. The...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Ultramercial v. WildTangent -- Petition for Writ of Certiorari

The Ultramercial story is not over. In the latest step of a controversial case involving 35 U.S.C. § 101 that has been ongoing since 2009, patentee Ultramercial has petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. The...more

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Good Faith Belief In Patent Invalidity Is No Defense To Claim Of Inducing Infringement

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Commil, USA, LLC sued Cisco Systems, Inc. for patent infringement and inducing patent infringement with regard to Commil’s patented method of implementing short-range wireless networks. Today, in Commil, USA, LLC v. Cisco...more

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Supreme Court Decision Eliminates Defense to Claim of Inducing Infringement

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, May 26 that a good-faith belief that a patent is invalid is not a defense to a claim of inducing infringement. Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Sys., Inc., No. 13-1986 (May 26, 2015). The Supreme...more

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