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AI Developing Software Companies Litigate Over Patent Infringement

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DSI) filed suit against Plaintiff, Perq Software, LLC for Patent Infringement. According to the Complaint, DSI’s software includes numerous technological improvements that were captured in a family of patent applications. In 2022 the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued Patent No.

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Common law doctrines and patent infringement in South Africa: Villa Crop Protection (Pty) Ltd v Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH

The IPKat

Do common law doctrines such as the doctrine of (un)clean hands apply in the consideration of a patentee's claim for patent infringement in South Africa? This was the key question before South Africa's apex court, the Constitutional Court in Villa Crop Protection (Pty) Ltd v Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH decided in December 2022.

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A Court Can Only Enjoin Public Accusations of Patent Infringement if They Are Objectively Baseless

LexBlog IP

Nu Tsai Capital, LLC, [2023-1146] (February 17, 2023), the Federal Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction against Lite-Netics patent-related speech, holding that the district court abused its discretion. Patent Nos. Harness IP is celebrating more than 100 years as an intellectual property law firm.

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Attorney Fees Denied Due to Lack of Support in Cannabis Litigation Record

The IP Law Blog

The ‘911 patent relates to “extraction of pharmaceutically active components … more particularly … botanical drug substance (B.D.S.) UCANN filed for bankruptcy in 2020, which stayed the litigation. The parties stipulated to dismiss the infringement claims with prejudice in 2021. The stipulation made no mention of attorney fees.

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What CannI Say? Litigating Cannabis Patents In District Court

LexBlog IP

With the increased funding pouring into this sector has come a desire to protect the intellectual property in the products, research, and developments brought to market. Coastal Harvest, LLC , denied a Motion to Dismiss asserting the illegality doctrine against cannabis related patents for extracting compounds from plant materials.

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Freedom to Operate Opinions: What Are They, and Why Are They Important?

LexBlog IP

A freedom to operate opinion (FTO) is a legal opinion from a qualified intellectual property attorney that concludes a proposed commercial product or process may be made, used, sold, or offered for sale without infringing another party’s intellectual property rights. Intellectual Property , Patents.

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Petitioner Failed to Establish Standing in IPR Appeal

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Allgenesis also asserted settlement conversations as evidence of a likelihood of litigation for patent infringement when Allgenesis brings its product to market. However, the Federal Circuit rejected this argument and determined that Allgenesis did not establish that the Board’s decision will have preclusive effect.

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