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Ironburg Inventions Ltd. v. Valve Corp. 21-2296 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 3, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Background In 2015, Ironburg Inventions Ltd. . § 315(e)(2); and (2) the “skilled and diligent searcher” inquiry itself with respect to what a skilled and diligent searcher reasonably would have been expected to discover. Ironburg”) sued Valve Corporation (“Valve”) for infringing U.S. 8,641,525 (“the ’525 patent”).

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The Chicken Sandwich Wars: A Sampling of Intellectual Property Law in the Fast Food Industry

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A 2015 court case and trade secret law help shed some light on this question. In 1987, a man by the name of Norberto Colón Lorenzana claimed to have invented the chicken sandwich while employed for a Church’s Chicken franchise in Puerto Rico. Upon graduation, he intends to practice transactional law.

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Op Ed: Reflections on the American Invents Act on its Tenth Year Anniversary 

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Lee is vice president at Amazon Web Services and was the Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (2015-2017). The America Invents Act (AIA), which passed on September 16, 2011, brought about some of the most significant changes to our patent system in over 50 years.

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UCB, Inc. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. No. 2021-1924, (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023)

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2015) (citing Titanium Metals Corp. 2015) (citing Atofina, 441 F.3d 2012)). Once a patent challenger has established, through overlapping ranges, its prima facie case of anticipation, the court must evaluate whether the patentee has established the claimed range is critical to the operability of the claimed invention.

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Trinity Info Media, LLC, fka Trinity Intel Media, LLC, v. Covalent, Inc., No. 2022-1308 (Fed. Cir. July 14, 2023) (“Opinion”)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The challenged patents both teach a similar claimed invention that is “directed to a poll-based networking system that connects users based on similarities as determined through poll answering and provides real-time results to the users.” ’321 The challenged patents are related and both trace their priority date to U.S. 321 patent col.

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FRAND Or Not: The 5G Patent Licensing Dispute Between Ericsson and Apple

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Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. SEP is defined as a patented invention that is essential to the use of an industry standard. Shuang Ren is a 3L J.D. Ericsson Inc. Shuang Ren is a 3L J.D.

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Innovate, Protect, Sustain: Navigating IPR for Sustainable Development Goals

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These intersections are nothing but the 17 Sustainable development goals, popularly known as the SDGs, that are part of the 2023 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations Members in 2015 that aimed at sharing and providing a blueprint for peace and prosperity for the people and plant in the present and for the future.