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Preliminary Injunction and Patent License Disputes

Patently-O

Holt was part of forming two additional companies, BJM and Matrix and Symbiont licensed the technology (including the patent) to those companies. The agreement included a number of provisions — primarily a license with royalties for feed sold using the process. All cases “arising under” the U.S.

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Supreme Court of China casted punitive damages upon post-settlement-agreement repeated patent infringement

The IPKat

In the fight against intellectual property rights (IPRs) infringements, China does not consider punitive damages as a taboo. During the validity period of the patent, one of the two defendants,** ‘Baijia store’, sold Jin’s patented products without permission. On the contrary: it has embraced them as a useful tool.

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COVID-19 Showed the Benefits of 3D-Printing in Healthcare. Can IP get out of the way?

IPilogue

I will summarize here two published views on existing solutions to this IP problem: in a May 2022 article in The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Muhammad Z. examined two existing ways to tackle the problem: compulsory licensing and voluntary licensing. Ballardini et al.

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Patent Damages Laws Regarding Apportionment are Inapplicable to Breach of Contract (FRAND) Claims

IP Watchdog

case number 19-40643: are patent laws regarding what constitutes a reasonable royalty applicable to questions of compliance with FRAND-related contractual obligations? Despite these differences, we noted that these two concepts have often been treated interchangeably by courts, often leading to confusing results.

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Understanding Standard Essential Patents

Intepat

INTRODUCTION Oftentimes, it is observed how intellectual property laws, specifically; patent laws are contradictory to competition and antitrust laws. Patent laws acknowledge that patents play a crucial role in facilitating the exchange of goods and services.

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When Is Trade Secret Protection the Right Choice?

The IP Law Blog

Companies rely on intellectual property (“IP”) rights to protect their valuable information, creations, and branding. IP rights come in several forms: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. If that information becomes known to others (outside a nondisclosure agreement or license, etc.), As the U.S.

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Book Review: Mechanisms to Enable Follow-On Innovation

The IPKat

After a methodological introduction in Chapter 1, Wernick follows in Chapter 2 with a discussion of the economic consequences of over- and underprotection in patent law. Notably, overprotection may lead to a decrease in patent quality (where an existing patent is in fact invalid) or to issues of interoperability between products.