Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2022

Foro anticipated that, at the conclusion of the feasibility study, Vita would provide a design of the deployment wheel that provided sufficient detail for manufacturing the equipment. Vita’s conceptual design was therefore readily ascertainable by proper means, and every feature was visually observable. Code §§ 134A.001

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granting a motion to enforce PlasmaCAM’s (Plasmacam) version of an agreement with Fourhills Designs, LLC, and Thomas and Martha Caudle (collectively “CNC”). Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) reversed and remanded a decision by the U.S.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

FRAND licensing commitments are designed to alleviate the risk that SEP holders will prevent broad adoption of a standard by asserting their patents against manufacturers of standardized products. However, this case did not sound in patent infringement, but in breach of contract. Apportionment. concurring).

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The IPKat

APRIL 5, 2023

Bacon J ruled that while the Patents Act is limited to the UK, this does not mean that the patentee should be unable in principle to recover damages in respect of losses arising from sales outside of the UK. Consequently, Meade J ordered a damages inquiry based on these unjustified threats.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2021

The decision also found that HTC’s proposed FRAND jury instructions were not a substantially correct statement of the law, because Ericsson’s ETSI FRAND commitment was governed by French contract law, but HTC’s instructions were based on U.S. law without reference or comparison to French contract law.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike traditional proprietary software, SaaS or PaaS business models where license terms can often be renegotiated or amended in subsequent contract cycles, open-source licensing is far less forgiving of afterthoughts. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike traditional proprietary software, SaaS or PaaS business models where license terms can often be renegotiated or amended in subsequent contract cycles, open-source licensing is far less forgiving of afterthoughts. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biocon Biologics then filed its own IPR on the same patent in IPR2023-01444. Both drugs are PCSK9 inhibitors designed to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. That IPR was terminated in August in view of a settlement agreement and before there was any decision on institution. That petition is pending.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sara’s IP litigation experience includes both patent litigation and trade secret misappropriation litigation, which often also include various associated breach of contract and business torts. April Park assists her clients with all aspects of patent infringement matters before the U.S. Sara received her J.D. in history.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

A primary motivation for Abbott's expedition application was to obtain a UK court decision on the validity of four European patents in order to influence a German court considering infringement of the German EP equivalents and to prevent the problems of the "injunction gap".

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), which act as a certificate of ownership for whatever the creator puts up for sale, allow artists to set their preferred terms of contract while making sales. In a piece for Live Law, Eashan Ghosh critically analyses Section 22(4) of the Indian Designs Act, 2004. Other News from Around the World.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2021

There, the plaintiff had developed “Olaplex” – a bonding solution designed to protect hair from chemicals contained in other products. The plaintiff’s licensor had filed a patent application on the product that had not yet been published. The District of Delaware answered that question in Liqwid, Inc. L’Oreal America, Inc.,

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

SEP Registration The Proposal establishes a “Competence Centre” within the EUIPO (which currently focuses solely on trademarks and design rights) to set up and maintain an EU-wide register for SEPs. If they reject it, they are subject to infringement remedies (including injunctions).

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

2021 saw several important milestones in the biosimilars space, including the much anticipated first interchangeable designations by FDA and the approval of the first ophthalmology biosimilar. For example, in February 2021, Minnesota lawmakers introduced a new bill, SF 990 , designed to expand Minnesota consumers’ access to biosimilars.

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