The IP Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

An inter partes review (IPR) is a procedure in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) whereby a U.S. patent can be challenged in the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Although a patent can be challenged in federal district court, an IPR is an expedited and less costly procedure than federal court litigation.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 5, 2024

Docket Navigator is a valuable resource, and the place to go if you want to keep track of new patent litigation filings or want to know what is happening in particular cases, how your judge has historically handled a particular type of motion, or a particular plaintiff’s litigation history. Adim8, LLC v. DoorDash, Inc.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

A cancellation proceeding is like a mini-lawsuit where the challenger and the registration owner engage in an adversarial case much like litigation. What if you simply wanted to cancel a trademark registration based on nonuse without going through all the expense and effort of litigation? Need to cancel a trademark registration?

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JD Supra Law

MAY 11, 2023

Patent litigation brought by nonpracticing entities, or NPEs, has seen exponential growth. These cases are often filed against large retailers or service providers, assert patents that are close to the end of their term and are disposed well before addressing the merits. All rights reserved.

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Patently-O

JULY 14, 2022

This prompted the question for me: who actually files appeals in patent infringement cases and how representative are they of the underlying civil actions filed in the courts? It turns out that the answer is “mostly patent asserters” and that they aren’t necessarily representative of case filings. 235 (2018) ).

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The perennial topic of anguish, anger, anxiety, annoyance, etc amongst patent attorneys and litigators, alike. With the Unified Patent Court (UPC), a new dimension arrives. Patent litigation strategists are not just plotting out their timelines of national proceedings v EPO, but also the UPC.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 8, 2024

District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, alleging patent infringement under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) based on the Defendants’ submission of aBLAs for their proposed biosimilars of EYLEA (aflibercept). Stay tuned to Big Molecule Watch for more updates on this litigation.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Patent owners that lack sufficient resources are often required to utilize the services of an outside litigation funding source to vindicate their patent rights.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

What makes the cost of patent litigation so high? What would you think if I told you that the average patent litigation cost exceeds well over $1 million ? To put it another way, how would you feel knowing that one million dollars might not get you halfway through a patent lawsuit?

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 17, 2022

Although there is no legal requirement for a company to obtain an FTO opinion before taking a new product, process, or service to market, obtaining one can be very beneficial as a preemptive measure to aid in defending a company in patent litigation against assertions of willful infringement and exposure to treble damages.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Docket Navigator is a valuable resource, and the place to go if you want to keep track of new patent litigation filings or want to know what is happening in particular cases, how your judge has historically handled a particular type of motion, or a particular plaintiff’s litigation history. Alto Dynamics, LLC v.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

While many of our readers will be shopping over the weekend, this Kat has prepared a post on the German “Black Friday” litigation to keep you company while you’re queuing. On December 20, 2013, the trade mark was registered for a large number of goods and services in classes 9, 35 and 41.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Schedule A litigation phenomenon continues apace in the Northern District of Illinois, a court that has become, in the words of Judge Seeger, “ an assembly line for TROs.” But Schedule A litigation is not confined to Chicago. Joes Identified in Schedule A, No. 1:23-cv-02605 (SDNY Jan. 2, 2024), ECF 76. for Hyponix and $14,641.51

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

million fee award untouched against a licensing outfit that went after 86 different Amazon Web Services customers, though the judges were unable to agree whether the existence of a brief last year from the Solicitor General's Office gave any credence to parts of the underlying, long-litigated patent case.

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IP Law 360

JUNE 9, 2023

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has wiped out all challenged claims in a mobile banking patent that United Services Automobile Association asserted against PNC Bank in multimillion-dollar infringement litigation, agreeing Friday that aspects of the system are rendered obvious by prior art.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Docket Navigator is a valuable resource, and the place to go if you want to keep track of new patent litigation filings or want to know what is happening in particular cases, how your judge has historically handled a particular type of motion, or a particular plaintiff’s litigation history. Bassfield IP LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Docket Navigator is a valuable resource, and the place to go if you want to keep track of new patent litigation filings or want to know what is happening in particular cases, how your judge has historically handled a particular type of motion, or a particular plaintiff’s litigation history. Bassfield IP LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

After a break, I am back at the monthly patent litigation reports starting with catching up on some of the backlog. I am preparing it as a service for retailers and their supply chain who may want an overview of the patent litigation landscape. Patent: 6,711,204 (Channel sounding for a spread-spectrum signal).

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Patently-O

JUNE 7, 2023

2023) , the Federal Circuit once again granted a writ of mandamus , ordering a patent infringement case to be transferred out of Judge Albright’s courtroom in the Western District of Texas (WDTX). states, including Texas, is no stranger to litigation in the Lone Star state. This decision was made under the provisions of 28 U.S.C.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 27, 2023

An inter partes review (IPR) is a procedure in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) whereby a U.S. patent can be challenged in the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Although a patent can be challenged in federal district court, an IPR is an expedited and less costly procedure than federal court litigation.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 16, 2021

Merpel does not like this form of taxi Friend of the Kat and Legal Head of Delivery for Gett in Moscow, Konstantin Voropaev has been following some developments out of Kazakhstan relating to an uptick in litigation in the taxi-app space. The patent is valid until 21 December 2023. So what is going on? Let’s start at the beginning.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated two PNC Bank patents that a jury previously upheld in underlying infringement litigation initially lodged by United Services Automobile Association in the Eastern District of Texas, finding the routing technology patent claims are rendered obvious by previous publications.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

What if we adjust our initial filing patent cost to match your budget? Nearly every patent firm sets their own attorney’s fees and service rates. So we asked ourselves the following question: What can we do to make utility patents more affordable? What would make patents more accessible to potential clients?

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Docket Navigator is a valuable resource, and the place to go if you want to keep track of new patent litigation filings or want to know what is happening in particular cases, how your judge has historically handled a particular type of motion, or a particular plaintiff’s litigation history. Advanced Transactions, LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 25, 2023 Champaign, Illinois – Julie King, King Business and Patent Law, PLLC, Champaign, Illinois was recently named to the National Small Business Association (NSBA) Leadership Council. ” King founded King Business and Patent Law in 2017. .

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Frequent filers included Advanced Transactions, Buffalo Patents, Cedar Lane Technologies, Locket IP, Lexos Media, M4siz, RFCyber, and Savannah Licensing. I am preparing it as a service for retailers and their supply chain who may want an overview of the patent litigation landscape. Buffalo Patents, LLC v.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

by Dennis Crouch A Federal Circuit panel recently released a pair of mandamus orders dealing with important civil procedure issues – one granting a petition to transfer venue under 28 USC 1404(a) , the other denying a petition challenging substitute service of process for a foreign defendant. Lone Star SCM Systems, Ltd. Docket No.

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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Serving a district court complaint for patent infringement on a foreign defendant usually requires compliance with the Hague Convention on Service. For the first time in more than a decade, the Federal Circuit addressed service of process under Federal Rule 4(f)(3) in its decision issued in In re: Oneplus Technology (Shenzhen) Co.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The location of a datacenter matters—the location of third-party datacenters affects companies’ (datacenter customers’) decisions whether to use the datacenters for colocation or other services. Patent venue rules ( 28 U.S.C. There are many reasons why datacenters are where they are. Netflix, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The manufacturer patented the drug but keeps the “data, specifications, and methods for manufacturing the drug confidential.” ” A generic manufacturer sought FDA approval, and the Yondelis manufacturer sued them for patent infringement. The parties are already in litigation. Blue Star Land Services LLC v.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

If you don’t have at least two million dollars laying around to sue for patent infringement, this post is for you. You may be wondering why bother getting a patent if it’s too expensive to enforce it. Let me share some good news for startups and small businesses that might change your mind about patenting.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

CLS Bank lawsuit provided an arsenal of invalidation weapons for patent defendants across the country. Alice was particularly relevant to software patents because it held a large swath of software patents to be invalid – particularly those that did no more than implement an abstract idea on a general purpose computer.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

With deep expertise in litigation and patent prosecution and counseling, the attorneys represent clients across a range of industries and in various legal venues. Newly promoted principals for 2023 are: Ashley Bolt has experience handling complex patent and intellectual property litigation in U.S. Ashley received her J.D.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 21, 2023

Indianapolis, Indiana – Plaintiff, Disintermediation Services, Inc. DSI) filed suit against Plaintiff, Perq Software, LLC for Patent Infringement. DSI built implementations of its products on both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. In 2022 the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued Patent No.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

This includes the protection and enforcement of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, privacy, and related subject matter. AIPLA is comprised primarily of practitioners in private and corporate practice, in government service, and in the academic community. Cross-border issues in IP litigation. Patent Law.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A perennial issue in trade secret litigation is: what factual allegations must be pled regarding what trade secrets are left when there are related patents from the same company on the same technology. Meridian Wildlife Services LLC provides insight on this issue at the motion to dismiss phase. Patent Nos.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Mok is a principal in Fish’s New York office and focuses his practice on IP litigation and counseling for domestic and international companies. His work spans a variety of technical areas and industries, including software, consumer products, wireless communications, semiconductor technology, automotive technology, and financial services.

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