IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
Congress is considering a trio of bipartisan bills to fix patent law problems that have cropped up over the past two decades, and it shouldn't stop there — addressing two other intellectual property issues is critical for America's economy, says retired Judge Kathleen O'Malley at the Council for Innovation Promotion.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 13, 2025
Judge Nelson S. Román (S.D.N.Y.) recently dismissed a patent-infringement complaint for failure to state a claim, emphasizing the requirement that plaintiffs plead factual allegations rather than legal conclusions. Endobotics, LLC v. Fujifilm Healthcare Ams. Corp., No. 24-cv-2266 (NSR), 2025 WL 1549027, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. May 29, 2025).
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IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
The Eastern District of Texas held onto its newly regained title as the busiest patent venue in the U.S., with nearly three times as many cases in 2024 as the once-dominant Western District of Texas. In addition, Patent Trial and Appeal Board filings bounced back after falling to a record low in 2023.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 13, 2025
On June 6, 2025, the acting Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Coke Morgan Stewart, issued a decision in iRhythm Technologies v. Welch Allyn, Inc.1 that initiates a new basis for discretionary denial of inter partes review (IPR) petitions. The Director denied institution of iRhythm’s IPR petitions because iRhythm had upset Welch Allyn’s settled expectations in the enjoyment of its patents. iRhythm is the first such IPR discretionary denial and raises questions about the.
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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
The acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director issued more than a dozen discretionary denial decisions on Thursday and Friday, where she ruled largely in favor of the challenger, made clear challenges to young patents have a huge advantage and brought in a denial based on assignor estoppel.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 13, 2025
As artificial intelligence continues to transform industries, innovators face a complex global landscape when it comes to securing patent protection. Join us for a timely and informative webinar exploring how major jurisdictions approach the patent eligibility of AI-implemented inventions. By: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
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JD Supra Law
JUNE 13, 2025
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently released its 2025 “Patent Scorecard” where it analyzes and ranks companies with large patent portfolios in various industries, including aerospace. The survey analyzed each company’s U.S. patents and measured four additional metrics. IEEE explains.
The IPKat
JUNE 13, 2025
The bitter dispute has continued over Carlsberg and Heineken’s patents for new barley plants. The EPO Board of Appeal decision in T 2178/22 Mutant Barley Plants/CARLSBERG - decided at the end of March but only published on Wednesday - remitted the case to the Opposition Division due to procedural unfairness in the way it handled the issue of inventive step.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 13, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced that, as of July 10, 2025, it will discontinue accepting petitions under the Accelerated Examination (AE) program for utility patent applications. However, petitions under the AE Program will continue to be accepted for design patent applications.
McKinsey Operations
JUNE 13, 2025
Leaders of multinational companies are grappling with fundamental questions about how to operate globally in a fragmenting world. The answer lies in reimagining their organizations for an evolving business environment.
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Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 13, 2025
On June 1, 2025, the Unified Patent Court marked its second anniversary - we are one of very few firms that has top-tier patent litigators in all major EU jurisdictions and the UK – we’ve been defending clients in cross-border European patent litigation since 2000 and are now one of the most active firms at the UPC.
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
Texas-based Renascent Energy Holdings LLC has accused Exxon Mobil Corp. of infringing a patent by using methods to operate and stimulate oil and gas wells.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 13, 2025
Restem filed a petition for inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 9,803,176, directed to stem cells obtained from umbilical cord tissue and isolated through a two-step process to create a specific cell marker expression profile. The Board held all challenged claims were not shown to be unpatentable.
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
The Federal Circuit on Friday revived a challenge that Chateau Lynch-Bages' launched against an application for a trademark with a similar name to the chateau's second-label Bordeaux wine, saying the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board must take another look.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 13, 2025
Japan adopts a soft law approach to AI governance but lawmakers advance proposal for a hard law approach for certain harms. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (“AI Regulations”) On May 28, 2025, Japan's Parliament enacted a bill to establish a new law centered on promoting AI, titled the "Act on Promotion of Research and Development and Utilization of Artificial Intelligence-Related Technologies" (the "AI Bill").1 The AI Bill is Japan's first law expressly regulating AI.
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
A Ninth Circuit panel has partially revived an intellectual property dispute between software companies Cloanto Corp. and Hyperion Entertainment, ruling that the lower court erred in tossing Cloanto's copyright claims while correctly axing its breach of contract claim.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 13, 2025
Selling goods or services online can be a challenge, as there are various legal issues to consider. Here are my top 10 recommendations for protecting your rights when using the internet as a tool for sales or licenses: 1. If you are selling an original work of authorship or using one to promote or advertise your services, register each work with the U.S.
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
A federal jury in Delaware on Friday cleared Cisco-owned security software company Duo Security Inc. of allegations it infringed a patent covering verification technology while also finding that the claims at issue were invalid.
The TTABlog
JUNE 13, 2025
The USPTO refused to register the mark shown below left, for "pre-fabricated metal ignition keys for starting heavy equipment, namely construction and agricultural equipment" [disclaimer of EQUIP KEY CO required], finding confusion likely with the registered mark shown below right, for "metal, brass and aluminum key blanks; metal and aluminum key chains; metal and brass locks, lock cylinders, pad locks and door locks" [representation of a key disclaimed].
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
A New York federal judge has denied a proposed "walkaway" settlement in an intellectual property lawsuit brought against a Miami cafe named after Vincent van Gogh, after the suing company sought to confirm an agreement in principle was reached even though talks later stalled.
IAM Magazine
JUNE 13, 2025
This year, we took things up a notch in Boston, reimagining our staging, offering an AI-powered networking app and revamped drinks receptions with entertainment
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
A North Carolina federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing a Texas-based patent owner of trying to extort a license from software company Red Hat Inc., finding the court has authority to hear the dispute.
IAM Magazine
JUNE 13, 2025
This year, we took things up a notch in Boston, reimagining our staging, offering an AI-powered networking app and revamped drinks receptions with entertainment
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
A California state jury has rejected a company's breach of contract case that accused Google of misappropriating information about its digital advertising technology to build similar products, ending the suit that had sought $1.3 billion in damages.
IAM Magazine
JUNE 13, 2025
The Japanese company’s new CIPO wants to strike a balance between defensive and proactive strategy, with enhancing product value as the end goal&
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
Microsoft reached a deal to end a software developer's 2022 patent infringement lawsuit targeting its email encryption feature, the parties have told a federal judge in Washington state, a few days before the case was set to reach trial Monday.
IAM Magazine
JUNE 13, 2025
The Japanese company’s new IP head wants to strike a balance between defensive and proactive strategy, with enhancing product value as the end goal&
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
With recent headlines highlighting tariffs as high as 3,521%, more firms will contemplate reshoring manufacturing to the U.S., and they will need to consider important intellectual property issues as part of this complex, expensive and lengthy undertaking, say attorneys at Norton Rose.
TorrentFreak
JUNE 13, 2025
Traditional site-blocking measures that require local ISPs to block subscriber access to popular pirate sites, have been utilized by rightsholders in France for years. The aim is to deter piracy by making sites more difficult to find, but these measures are only partially effective. More recently, site blocking requests have targeted other intermediaries.
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
A Swedish medical device company has sued Georgia-based MedWay Group Inc. in federal court for allegedly infringing its patents for foam dressings used in wound care and management.
Corsearch
JUNE 13, 2025
For years, many in the industry harbored a quiet optimism. The rise of affordable, accessible streaming services felt like the silver bullet against content piracy. Why bother with the hassle of illegal downloads and dodgy websites when legitimate, high-quality content was just a click away, often for less than the price of a coffee? Yet, as we move through 2025, the data paints a starkly different picture.
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
This past week in London has seen Tottenham Hotspur FC kick off at Manchester United co-owner Ineos Automotive following a soured sponsorship deal, Acer and Nokia clash over patents for video coding technology, and two investors reignite litigation against the founders of an AI exercise bike business that unlawfully pocketed $1.2 million in investments to fund their own lifestyles.
The IPKat
JUNE 13, 2025
The UPCKat, not content with its own patenttreats, reaches to the even more delicious top shelf where the third-countrypatent treats residedPatent litigation forums around the world have been abuzz with discussions about the cross-border implications of the CJEU’s ruling in BSH v Electrolux (Case C-339/22) – summarized here and further discussed here.
IP Law 360
JUNE 13, 2025
OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman have fired back at technology company IYO Inc.'s effort to bar their use of the IO Products Inc. name, arguing its claims are "insufficiently ripe" as the company hasn't provided evidence of the name being used in commerce or the likelihood of confusion.
McKinsey Operations
JUNE 13, 2025
Clinical supply costs make up a large share of a health system’s total cost base. As healthcare leaders look to optimize clinical supply spend, physician perspectives can unlock potential value.
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