IP Watchdog

MAY 9, 2022

A large portion of the technology that we rely on daily—cell phones, computers, and the sensors and infrastructure that connect them, as well as an increasing percentage of drugs—is manufactured outside the United States, and in particular China. Indeed, over the past 25+ years the value of goods imported from China has increased ten-fold.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A Sheppard Mullin trial team led by partners Brad Graveline and Laura Burson obtained one of the largest patent infringement damages awards against the United States of America for client SecurityPoint Holdings, Inc (SecurityPoint). SecurityPoint brought its claim for patent infringement against the United States under 28 U.S.C.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2022

In the first major patent infringement lawsuit in the mRNA space, on February 28, 2022, Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (“Arbutus”) and Genevant Sciences GmbH (“Genevant”) sued Moderna, Inc. The plaintiffs have alleged that Moderna infringed U.S. The plaintiffs have alleged that Moderna infringed U.S. Patent Nos.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 5, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a game changer across various sectors, and intellectual property (IP) law is no exception. As AI technologies continue to evolve at a rapid pace, legal professionals will see a surge in IP litigation, ranging from patent infringement cases to copyright issues surrounding AI-generated content.

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 18, 2023

On June 1, 2021, the Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law became effective. An important part of the amendment is the introduction by Article 76 of the patent linkage system in China – a system for litigation of drug patents prior to market entry of generics, similar to that provided by the Hatch Waxman Act in the US.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 11, 2022

Goodwin is actively seeking Science Advisors to join its Intellectual Property (IP) Litigation group. IP litigation requires both an understanding of the law and a firm handle on the technical aspects of the patents at issue, especially when the patents cover complex technologies including those in the pharmaceutical space.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Nimitz Technologies told a Delaware federal judge Thursday it dropped three patent infringement suits against Buzzfeed, Bloomberg and CNET, ending the litigation roughly six months after responding to the judge's investigation into whether the patent business IP Edge was funding its patent infringement blitz in the state.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Technology, a company owned by Martin David Hoyle, developer of internet advertising technology who has been embroiled in litigation with big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google for close to a decade now, today filed a petition for writ of mandamus with the U.S. Technology, L.L.C., and Google LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This installment will focus on a company named Stormborn Technologies, an IP Edge entity. Many high-volume NPEs are subsidiaries of a larger company that segregates liability by creating separate LLCs for each subset of their patent portfolio. Stormborn Technologies is one such entity. Stormborn owns U.S. 35 U.S.C. §

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2] 2] Virtually nonexistent in the patent space in the U.S. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 28, 2023

has asked a California federal judge to award it roughly $5 million in attorney fees and expert costs following its recent defeat of a patent infringement suit brought by headphone maker Taction Technology Inc., arguing that Taction's "unreasonable" litigation tactics caused Apple to incur significant costs.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled in a nonprecedential opinion that a Florida district court correctly dismissed a UK-based patent owner’s infringement case after he willfully disobeyed the court and disrupted the enforcement of a court order.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In Rovi Guides Inc v Videotron Ltd , the Federal Court of Canada invalided patents for interactive program guide (“IPG”) technology and clarified a reasonable royalty as the appropriate remedy had the patents been found valid and infringed. Whether Rovi practiced the invention of the patent in Canada.

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Patent Trademark Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Does Amazon allow patent owners to file a claim for utility patent infringement against sellers? Yes, Amazon offers its own patent court for sellers to resolve utility patent infringement claims. Neutral Patent Evaluation is the name of the process to resolve Amazon utility patent infringement claims.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This installment will focus on NPE litigation as a whole, and what to expect in 2023. Often referred to as “patent trolls,” [1] NPEs buy patents that cover ubiquitous technology in use by some of the largest technology and retail outfits in the country. So where do things stand in 2023?

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Texas to vacate its order denying transfer of patent infringement claims to the Northern District of California. The case actually had a “particularized connection with Northern California” given that the technology was invented there and Google’s patents were prosecuted from that forum.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Office of the United States Trade Representative says it supports delaying a decision to extend the waiver of IP rights under the TRIPS Agreement to diagnostics and therapeutics and orders an investigation be conducted on the matter by the U.S.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

As the battery and electric vehicle (EV) industries continue to grow, in tandem the IP world is experiencing an increase in battery patenting activity. With these technical advances comes an increase in legal activity, including intellectual property (“IP”) filings and litigation. PDF copy available.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 7, 2023

Nimitz Technologies has delivered long-awaited answers to questions from Delaware's top federal judge regarding who is funding its patent infringement campaigns in the state, the same day IP Edge and a consortium of its alleged "sham" patent-holding companies told the judge in a separate proceeding to toss a declaratory patent action brought by a California (..)

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Emily Xiang is an IPilogue Writer, a Senior Fellow with the IP Innovation Clinic, and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Is technology’s rapid rise really a great equalizer for improving social welfare globally? . Increasing prices of technology have only served to further disparities in access and skill development.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 19, 2022

According to Sonos, the company began sharing its technology with Google in 2013, when the two started working together. The lawsuit began in January 2020, with Sonos alleging that Google violated its patents related to audio technologies and used them in products that undercut Sonos.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The California Institute of Technology and Broadcom have asked a California federal judge to dismiss patent infringement litigation where Broadcom and Apple dodged a $1.1 billion verdict, potentially closing out the suit two months after announcing they were nearing a settlement.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 1, 2022

85 million to end their ongoing patent infringement litigation involving spinal cord therapy technology, the companies announced Monday. Medical device company Boston Scientific Corp. will pay Nevro Corp. $85

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Three pharmaceutical companies, including Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Micromet AG, and Cambridge Antibody Technology (now acquired by AstraZeneca), in September 2003 announced signing a non-exclusive cross-license agreement. Without any doubt, stepping into patent litigation can be uncertain, full of risks, and expensive.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 29, 2023

alleging that the defendants’ adeno-associated virus (“AAV”) technology gene therapy product has infringed or will infringe U.S. 11,680,274 (“the ‘274 Patent”). Stay tuned for more coverage of this and other big molecule litigations! Last week REGENXBIO Inc.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Putting an end to a 24 year old patent infringement suit, the Delhi High Court has directed Maharaja Appliances Ltd. Background The dispute started off as a heated battle between the parties over the plaintiff’s ‘Liquid Heating Vessels’ patent, which the plaintiff claimed was used by the defendant in its electric kettles.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

VLSI Technology has won more than $3 billion in patent infringement verdicts against Intel Corp. in a Texas federal court so far, but those victories account for just a portion of their cross-country and international feud over chip patents.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The California Institute of Technology has urged the U.S. billion patent infringement dispute between the university and Apple over data transmission technology, arguing that the Federal Circuit correctly applied an estoppel provision that blocks certain invalidity arguments in district court litigation.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 18, 2023

On June 1, 2021, the Fourth Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law became effective. An important part of the amendment is the introduction by Article 76 of the patent linkage system in China – a system for litigation of drug patents prior to market entry of generics, similar to that provided by the Hatch Waxman Act in the US.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

and Genevant Sciences GmbH (collectively, Arbutus) filed a complaint for patent infringement in the District of New Jersey against Pfizer, Inc. ” The patents-in-suit are U.S. In a related proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Moderna convinced the PTAB to invalidate Arbutus’s U.S.

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

The proposed amendments to Rule 16 and 26 are designed to require parties to address privilege and work product protections early in litigation by adopting agreed procedures regarding the timing and sufficiency of privilege logs. Absent Congressional action, the amendment becomes law.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

Consent Orders can be used in many situations, but often are used when an accused infringer has no desire to continue to import or sell the accused product and wants to avoid the cost of litigation over past conduct that has now ceased. The Recent Decision.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 10, 2023

The petition was brought by Stingray IP Solutions, LLP and was opposed by TP-Link Technologies, a Chinese company, which Stingray accused of patent infringement.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

District Court for the Central District of California in a patent infringement suit filed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) against Broadcom Limited, Broadcom Corporation, and Avago Technologies (collectively “Broadcom) and Apple Inc. Automated Creel Systems, Inc.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2022

As artificial intelligence-related patent litigation activity inevitably approaches, a review of U.K.

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Patently-O

MARCH 13, 2022

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Blake Brittain: Patent Judge Leaves U.S. Angus Liu : Roche Settles Lawsuit Claiming AstraZeneca’s Ultomiris Infringes Delivery Patent (Source: Fierce Pharma). Solomon Israel: Court Tosses Canopy Cannabis Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against GW Pharma (Source: MJ Biz Daily).

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2024

Image from here So far 2024 has been a happening year for the Indian SEP litigation scene. As per the report by Sukanya Sarkar at Managing IP ( paywalled ), the Court found Lava guilty of infringing Ericsson’s seven patents on 2G, EDGE, and 3G technology, but, notably also revoked one of Ericsson’s patents for lack of novelty.

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