IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

On September 20, 2021, Judge John Robert Blakey in the Northern District of Illinois issued an opinion in a Walker Process patent fraud antitrust case denying defendants’ motion for summary judgment on their statute of limitations defense. TCS John Huxley America, Inc. Scientific Games Corp., 1:19-cv-1846, 2021 WL 4264403 (N.D.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Moderna and Pfizer battle’s over the inventive process of their respective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines revisit the negative associations of profit, monopolies, and optics in patent litigation. Moderna claimed that they had registered foundational mRNA patents between 2010 and 2016. This exposes some concerns about our patent laws.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 24, 2022

Litigation is almost always recommended to be avoided , whether because of the sheer amount of time needed to get a court date, the expensive costs for the client and law firm, or the risks associated with receiving an unfavorable judgement. They do not practice, develop, manufacture, or otherwise commercialize the patent.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Affordable ways to enforce intellectual property. If you don’t have at least two million dollars laying around to sue for patent infringement, this post is for you. Thankfully, you can enforce intellectual property without spending your life savings. How to enforce trademarks inexpensively.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2024

In patent litigation, damages issues are sometimes treated as an afterthought when compared to the issues of infringement and invalidity. However, achieving a client’s goals requires an attorney to place damages at the center of the litigation strategy from the very beginning.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 7, 2024

Intellectual property litigation in the 21st century has brought to the fore systems for asserting infringement in which IP owners may be spared some of the huge expense of litigation by “routing” extra-judicial enforcement activities through a third party.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 9, 2022

Most companies are aware of the potential patent infringement liability for sales made in the United States but may not know that liability for infringing a U.S. patent can also extend to the processes used to make their product—even when manufacturing is done entirely outside the United States by a contract manufacturer.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Lee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied a biosimilar applicant defendant’s motion to dismiss patent infringement claims brought in the second phase of the parties’ Biosimilar Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) litigation. By: Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Adding another leaf to the FCM patent litigation saga, the Delhi High Court on September 19 refused to grant an interim injunction to Vifor considering the launch of the Biological E’s product in the market. She is keenly interested in Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, and Corporate Law.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2023

government statement of interest filed in a patent infringement suit against Moderna, Inc.’s That statement argued that Moderna should be released from infringement liability under the terms of a government contract that “authorize[d] and consent[ed] to all use and manufacture” of any U.S. patented invention.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

The interface of Intellectual Property (IP) incline with Amazon’s approach herein. In matters of trade, Trademark, copyright and Patent act as building blocks of protection measures while conferring exclusive right over goods/services for the holder. Patent infringement can occur in both of these roles.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The US has started a worldwide complaint about China’s new legal strategy against intellectual property (IP) theft claims. Beijing said that it would “ strictly enforce patent and copyright laws.” However, Xiaomi has been using a patent by InterDigital Inc. Xiaomi Inc. , and BBK Electronics.

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Patently-O

JULY 14, 2022

This prompted the question for me: who actually files appeals in patent infringement cases and how representative are they of the underlying civil actions filed in the courts? It turns out that the answer is “mostly patent asserters” and that they aren’t necessarily representative of case filings. 235 (2018) ).

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2022

In the first major patent infringement lawsuit in the mRNA space, on February 28, 2022, Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (“Arbutus”) and Genevant Sciences GmbH (“Genevant”) sued Moderna, Inc. The plaintiffs have alleged that Moderna infringed U.S. Patent Nos. and ModernaTX, Inc.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

After four years of litigation, Australian-based CAP-XX, Ltd. finally commenced its patent infringement trial this Monday against Maxwell Technologies, Inc. By: Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints before Judge Jennifer Hall and a Delaware jury and is set to end on Friday.

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The IPKat

APRIL 24, 2023

Last Friday, WIPO published An International Guide to Patent Case Management for Judges. For each jurisdiction, there are several chapters which sets out the procedure and practice for managing patent cases, namely patent infringement cases., while also " integrating pertinent patent law doctrines ".

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 1, 2021

Patent infringement encompasses unauthorized making, use, sale, or offering for sale any patented invention within the United States jurisdiction. As a result of this infringement, a patentee whose patent is infringed may file a lawsuit seeking appropriate relief from the federal court. Limitation Period.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

The significance of this case is that the Federal Circuit confirmed that parties can contractually negotiate away their right to file IPRs or other validity challenges in the Patent Office. Despite this language, Sarepta filed seven petitions for inter partes review (“IPR”). The Federal Circuit disagreed. The Federal Circuit disagreed.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2023

government’s recent statement of interest filed in a patent infringement suit against Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. That statement argued that Moderna should be released from infringement liability under the terms of a government contract that “authorize[d] and consent[ed] to all use and manufacture” of any U.S.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 21, 2023

alleging that Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus (“RSV”) vaccine ABRYSVO infringes four U.S. patents covering GSK’s rival RSV vaccine, AVREXY. GSK describes the four asserted patents, U.S. Patent Nos. Stay tuned for more coverage of this case and other big molecule litigations!

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 1, 2023

Substantial patent litigation activity occurred in the mRNA space in 2022, involving nearly all of the major mRNA and lipid nanoparticle (LNP) pioneers. Since this is the most significant happening in this space with respect to IP in 2022, this post will provide an overview of that activity as well as a summary exposure analysis.

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Larson & Larson

DECEMBER 7, 2022

As a business owner, it’s important to be aware of the potential for patent infringement. A patent is a legal document that grants the holder the exclusive right to make, use, and sell an invention for a certain period of time. When it comes to patent infringement, there are a few key things to keep in mind.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 5, 2023

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. Lite-Netics owns multiple patents on magnetic holiday string lights. Patent Nos.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 22, 2022

Chinese Patent Litigation: Leveraging Specialized IP Courts. Selecting a jurisdiction for Patent Litigation in China. In China, when multiple courts would have jurisdiction over a plaintiff’s case, a patent owner can choose which court will try their case.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2024

GlaxoSmithKline filed a four-count civil action for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware late last week seeking damages for Pfizer and BioNTech’s infringing manufacture, use, sale and marketing of both the original “monovalent” and “bivalent” Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccines.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled in a nonprecedential opinion that a Florida district court correctly dismissed a UK-based patent owner’s infringement case after he willfully disobeyed the court and disrupted the enforcement of a court order.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

The significance of this case is that the Federal Circuit confirmed that parties can contractually negotiate away their right to file IPRs or other validity challenges in the Patent Office. Despite this language, Sarepta filed seven petitions for inter partes review (“IPR”). The Federal Circuit disagreed. The Federal Circuit disagreed.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The big patent news this holiday season involves a purported ban on the new Apple Watch. In October 2023, the International Trade Commission (the “ITC”) ruled that the blood oxygen monitoring features in these devices infringed a patent from Masimo, a medical device company. 337-TA-1266).

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We previously reported on patent infringement litigations between Alnylam and Moderna. First, in a patent action brought by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Alnylam”) against Moderna, Inc., Alynlam had previously alleged that Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine products, marketed as SPIKEVAX® infringed U.S.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Carmel Wroth and Joe Palca: Moderna Suing Pfizer, BioNTech for Patent Infringement in Development of COVID-19 Vaccine (Source: NPR). Sean Silcoff: BlackBerry’s US$600-Million Patent Sale in Doubt as Canadian-Led Lending Syndicate Bails (Source: The Globe and Mail). Source: Forbes.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 22, 2022

The major streaming companies, including Disney, challenged WAG Acquisitions [of Woodsford Litigation Funding] patents before the Board; SharkNinja challenges Bissel patents on vacuum cleaners; and FedEx challenged patents owned by Raymond Anthony Joao’s ultra-litigious Transcend Shipping.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The District of Delaware is renowned as a patent litigation hot spot, but the district sees its fair share of other IP litigation. Future litigants in the District of Delaware should be aware of potential arguments relating to non-infringing alternatives as they potentially relate to both patent and copyright damages.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In patent infringement cases, venue is proper under 28 U.S.C § 1406(a) where either (1) the company accused of infringement is incorporated or (2) where the company has committed acts of infringement and has a “regular and established place of business.” may have reopened that question. may have reopened that question.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 9, 2024

1337 due to Stanley Black & Decker’s alleged patent infringement. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) ruling that Zircon Corp. had failed to meet the domestic industry requirement to prove a violation of 19 U.S.C.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JUNE 25, 2021

Patent Nos. 7,860,448 and 7,412,203 (the “Patents in Suit”). The Patents in Suit relate to methods and computer programs for localizing broadcast content and an apparatus for operating a broadcast network, respectively. Westwood is seeking damages, including treble damages, for willful infringement pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 8, 2023

for patent infringement. TeleBrands holds several patents related to the design and construction of expandable garden hoses, including US10174870 and US10890278 both titled “Expandable and Contractible Garden Hose.” Vieneci is accused of patent infringement in violation of 35 U.S.C. § Vieneci Garden, Inc.

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