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Post-Default Creditor’s Right to Assign, License and Enforce Patent does not Disturb Patentee’s Separate Right to Sue Infringers

Patently-O

May 1, 2024) offers some interesting insight into leveraged patent transactions, and the effect of a lender’s ability to license or assign a patent on the patent owner’s standing to sue for infringement, especially after default. ” IT sued Zebra for infringement in the W.D.Tex.,

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Canadian Patent Infringement: The Role of Non-Infringing Options in Profit Calculations and the Availability of Springboard Profits

LexBlog IP

The Supreme Court of Canada recently clarified the role of non-infringing options as well as springboard profits when calculating profits in patent infringement cases. The majority of the court also confirmed that the calculation properly included profits gained after the patent expired, known as springboard profits.

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Synergizing Patents to Drive Innovation and Growth

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Companies have historically turned to patent pools as vehicles for achieving shared objectives. A patent pool can be formed when a group of patent holders agree to pool their patents for some purpose. In this scenario, the pooling companies may own complementary patents that enable a technical standard.

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Community Property and Patent Ownership

Patently-O

This argument fails for two reasons: first, Mobile Equity would not have needed to specifically list the ’989 Application, or the ’236 Patent which had issued by November 2014, by name because Afana had already assigned his entire interest in the ’989 Application. For example, applying Florida law, the court in Taylor v. 3d 916 (M.D.

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Patent Law at the Supreme Court February 2022

Patently-O

Qualcomm had previously sued Apple for patent infringement, and Apple responded with a set of inter partes review petitions. The settlement also included a license to thousands of Qualcomm patents. The invention in Yu was a multi-lens camera deemed abstract by the Federal Circuit. Energy Heating, LLC.

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The Alice Test for Patent Ineligibility in Practice, Part Two: The Federal Circuit Affirms a Dismissal

LexBlog IP

Kollective Technology ) that reversed a lower court dismissal of a patent infringement case on Section 101 eligibility grounds under the Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. Zillow ruled on another appeal from a dismissal on eligibility grounds in a case also involving IT patents. CLS Bank test. LG Electronics, Inc.,

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The Alice Test for Patent Ineligibility in Practice, Part Two: The Federal Circuit Affirms a Dismissal

IP Tech Blog

Kollective Technology ) that reversed a lower court dismissal of a patent infringement case on Section 101 eligibility grounds under the Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. Zillow ruled on another appeal from a dismissal on eligibility grounds in a case also involving IT patents. CLS Bank test. LG Electronics, Inc.,

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