IP Law 360

MAY 4, 2023

A New Jersey federal judge has issued a contempt order against an India-based supplement company for failing to pay discovery misconduct fees and blocked its legal counsel from withdrawing, a year after the company was ordered to pay more than $1 million to opposing counsel following patent infringement claims dating back to 2015.

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Garrigues Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

In addition, a third party’s use of an invention before its registration by another is also relevant to assess patent infringement. The right of prior use is set forth in article 63 of the current Patents Law of 2015, the wording of which is practically identical to that of article 54 of the earlier Patents Law of 1986.

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Patently-O

MARCH 28, 2022

September 24, 2015) (non-precedential). 14, 2015 and directed to a system for recovering drilling fluid by using an improved “shaker.” ” A month later, May 15, 2015, M-I sued FPUSA for patent infringement in W.D.Tex and requested a preliminary injunction. FPUSA, LLC , 626 F. App’x 995 (Fed.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 6, 2022

Eolas Technology filed patent infringement actions against Amazon, Google, and Walmart in the Eastern District of Texas in 2015. The asserted patent generally relates to remote computer systems that allow users at a client computer to connect to a network to locate, retrieve, and manipulate objects in an interactive way.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) are on the rise; the number of newly declared patents per year has almost tripled over the past five years. There were 17,623 new declared patent families in 2020, compared to 6,457 in 2015 (see Figure 1). The 5G standard alone counts over 150,000 declared patents since 2015.

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IPilogue

JULY 12, 2022

Demanding a jury trial, the 62-page complaint alleges that Nike has conducted nine counts of patent infringement relating to Adidas’ GPS, sensor and wearable technologies. Furthermore, Adidas points to similarities between its Adidas Confirmed app, launched in February 2015, and Nike’s SNKRS , introduced a few days later.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Judge Stark dissented, arguing that, although he agreed PMC’s delay in prosecuting its patent was “unreasonable and inexcusable,” Apple failed to establish that it suffered prejudice during the period of delay. PMC sued Apple in the U.S. 8,191,091.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Having started back in 2015 , Delhi High Court judge Justice Prathiba M. Singh’s book on Patent Law is finally out. It has been published by Thomson Reuters in two volumes and was launched on 9th March 2024 by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Pragati Maidan.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Petitioners allege that in 2015, they discovered that Illumina and other Respondents were engaged in a 25-year conspiracy to steal their inventions, including by “fraudulently conceal[ing] the misappropriated IP in multiple patent applications” as early as the late 90’s.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

2015) in finding that manufacture and delivery of a product in a foreign country can infringe a US patent if sufficient sales-activity occurred within the US. by Dennis Crouch. The recent Federal Circuit decision in Caltech v. California Institute of Technology v. ” A contrasting case here is Carnegie Mellon Univ.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sockeye has sued approximately 80 defendants since it began its patent infringement campaigns in 2015. For example, Sockeye sued a group of electronics companies in 2015 and sued the same defendants again in 2022 with at least some of the same patents.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

Rae Crisler is a patent litigator whose experience spans a wide range of technologies, including pharmaceuticals in Hatch-Waxman cases, biologics, medical devices, and technologies related to power management features of systems-on-a-chip as well as network and data processing optimization. In 2015, Joy received her J.D. in history.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the Federal Circuit’s view, the PTAB’s decision had “no impact” on this infringement litigation, primarily because the PTAB’s decision was pending on appeal. Whether a party may be liable for induced patent infringement when the PTAB has already issued a final written decision determining that the same patent is invalid.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 23, 2022

January 6, 2015. Therefore, Plaintiff is seeking damages for Direct Patent Infringement in violation of 35 U.S. According to the Complaint, Defendant, First in Finishing, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As further explained below, companies should thus very seriously consider the inclusion of patent markings on all relevant products. Design Patent No. 13, 2015, which was the design patent asserted in the matter noted above. At bottom are two annotated versions of a figure from U.S.

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Patently-O

JULY 16, 2021

Form 18 focused on patent infringement and included a bare-bones set of allegations that (1) the plaintiff owns a particular patent and (2) the defendant has infringed that patent. In 2015, Form 18 was removed and the transformation complete. Image of Form 18 below). In Bot M8 v.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 27, 2021

The Patent Pro Bono Program is a nationwide network that matches volunteer patent professionals with financially under-resourced inventors and small businesses for the purpose of securing patent protection. Since its launch in 2015, more than 1,800 patent professionals have volunteered their time and resources to the program.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 11, 2021

With all these various fast food restaurants entering the fray, why did Chick-fil-A or other early players in the chicken sandwich game not block these upstarts with copyright or patent infringement injunctions? A 2015 court case and trade secret law help shed some light on this question.

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Patently-O

APRIL 8, 2024

By Dennis Crouch In 1931, the United States Supreme Court decided a landmark case on the patentability of inventions, De Forest Radio Co. The case involved a patent infringement suit over an improved vacuum tube used in radio communications. 565, 648 (2015). General Electric Co. , 664 (1931), amended, 284 U.S. 571 (1931).

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

lakh trademarks were registered between 2016 to 2020 as compared to the 11 lakh trademark registrations between 1940 to 2015. The Ministry had claimed that 14.2 The article looks at the number of registrations, the process of registration, and reasons for the hike in the numbers. Other News from Around the World.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2021

Are research tools protected from patent infringement under the Hatch-Waxman safe harbor, section 271(e)(1)? [1] This, in effect, not only extended the patent’s term but also delayed introduction of competing products. [6]. Statutory Background. The safe harbor was enacted to overrule Roche Prods., at 860-61. [6] Elan Pharms.,

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Kashishipr

JULY 20, 2022

Hydrox was largely discontinued in 1999, and it was in September 2015 when the product was reintroduced by Leaf Brands. It was in 2019 when Nike filed a Patent Infringement lawsuit against Skechers by calling it out for copying Nike’s strategy.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 17, 2021

Event studies have been used before in IP, in particular regarding patent infringement disputes and patent oppositions. Generally, the very instance of an infringement case conveys positive returns for the patent owner and negative returns for the alleged infringer, irrespective of the outcome.

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Bio Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2020

history was approved and launched in 2015. We are likely to continue to see patent infringement litigation between biosimilar competitors in the years ahead as biosimilar makers continue to procure and enforce patents. Patent Nos. It has been nearly 10 years since the U.S. The first biosimilar product in U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2023

138, 154 (2015) (stating that, for collateral estoppel purposes, similar legal issues are not identical if different legal standards apply). XY (discussed in detail here ) concerned assertions of patent infringement and patent invalidity in federal court. Garner , 498 U.S. Hargis Industries, Inc. , ” Id.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 30, 2023

In 2015, FMC, who sells oil drilling equipment, was sued by competitor OneSubsea for patent infringement in the Eastern District of Texas. More specifically, OneSubsea alleged that FMC infringed 95 claims across 10 U.S. patents owned by OneSubsea. patents owned by OneSubsea.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This case addresses whether patents relating to methods and systems for connecting users based on their answers to polling questions claim patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § Background Trinity sued Covalent for patent infringement of U.S. Patent 9,087,321 (“the ’321 patent”) and U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2022

The court found, however, that in early 2015 Foro received only “conceptual drawings” that were not final drawings ready for manufacture, but rather the first step of an engineering process. that were previously disclosed in its first coiled tubing unit prototype that it had previously patented (the “1998 Patent”).

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2022

The court found, however, that in early 2015 Foro received only “conceptual drawings” that were not final drawings ready for manufacture, but rather the first step of an engineering process. that were previously disclosed in its first coiled tubing unit prototype that it had previously patented (the “1998 Patent”).

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Finally, our research did not support the assertion that most litigated design patents are found not infringed: Findings of Infringement as a Share of District-Court Design Patent Infringement Findings (12-mo avg) (2011–2021).

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Qualcomm had previously sued Apple for patent infringement, and Apple responded with a set of inter partes review petitions. 2015) and again in PersonalWeb Techs. However, a statutory right is insufficient for Constitutional standing.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In patent infringement cases, it is well-established that a patentee’s damages should reflect only the value of the patented features of an infringing product. Thus, in assessing damages, courts routinely “apportion” the infringer’s profits between the infringing and noninfringing features of its product.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Highlights of the Week Hot-Tubbing in Indian IP Litigation: Delhi High Court Issues Directives in High-Stakes Patent Infringement Case Image from [link] here Recently, the DHC issued directives regarding expert evidence in the Perjeta patent litigation. Anything we are missing out on? Please let us know in the comments below.

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2022

patent infringement proceedings, effectively creating a statutory “anti-anti-suit injunction” (AASI) applicable in all courts across the U.S. Ericsson , 2015 U.S. If enacted, DACA would impose two types of penalty on a party that seeks to restrict an action for patent infringement before a U.S. LEXIS 191512 (C.D.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 26, 2023

patent infringement lawsuit in the food tech industry against Motif, in March 2022. [4] 4] Impossible Foods initially accused Motif of infringing U.S. 10,863,761 (“the ’761 patent”), covering a beef-replica product containing hemoproteins. [5] 10, 2015); U.S. 9, 2022), ECF No. 20, 2022). [9]

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

and the wealthy countries, Moderna announced that it expected its competitors to respect Moderna’s intellectual property and that it would offer patent licenses on reasonable terms to those who asked. On August 26, 2022, Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech for patent infringement in the district court in Massachusetts.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

and the wealthy countries, Moderna announced that it expected its competitors to respect Moderna’s intellectual property and that it would offer patent licenses on reasonable terms to those who asked. On August 26, 2022, Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech for patent infringement in the district court in Massachusetts.

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