Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Minerva , 19-2054 (Fed. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Hologic, Inc. , On remand, the Federal Circuit found Minerva still estopped, despite the narrowed doctrinal scope. Hologic, Inc. Minerva Surgical, Inc. , Minerva Petition. 2022) ( en banc petition). 2d 689 (June 29, 2021).

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IPilogue

JULY 9, 2021

Supreme Court recently decided that the doctrine of assignor estoppel—the judge-made law that prevents an assignor, if sued for IP infringement by the assignee, from contesting the title or validity of the IP it transferred—applies to the assignments of patents in Minerva Surgical, Inc. v Hologic, Inc., 594 US (2021).

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Surgical device company Minerva has told the Federal Circuit that in light of the U.S. Supreme Court narrowing when a doctrine preventing inventors from challenging their own patents can be invoked, a Hologic Inc. patent covering an endometrial treatment must be invalidated.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 28, 2021

Supreme Court recently decided a case resolving a patent dispute between two medical device companies, Hologic, Inc. and Minerva Surgical. By: Knobbe Martens

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Patently-O

AUGUST 15, 2022

Minerva Surgical, Inc. Hologic, Inc. , Hologic, Inc. Minerva Surgical, Inc. , Later, the patentee obtained a patent covering the invention without the permeable member and then sued the assignor who had formed a competing company. 2298 (2021). ” Id. .” 19-2054, — F.4th

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IP Intelligence

MAY 3, 2021

In Hologic, Inc. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Csaba Truckai assigned his interest in the application to which the patent-in-suit claims priority (as well as all continuation applications) to NovaCept, Inc., a company that he co-founded. Ambico, Inc. EVE-USA, Inc. Opinion at 16, 18.

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Bio Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2021

On June 29, 2021, the Supreme Court, in Minerva Surgical, Inc. Hologic Inc., The Court’s majority opinion, authored by Justice Kagan, issued from Minerva’s appeal of the Federal Circuit’s application of assignor estoppel. Hologic then sued Minerva for infringement of the continuation patent.

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