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UK Inventor Loses 3D Scanner Patent Infringement Case Due to Repeated ‘Bad Faith’ Behavior

IP Watchdog

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled in a nonprecedential opinion that a Florida district court correctly dismissed a UK-based patent owner’s infringement case after he willfully disobeyed the court and disrupted the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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Revolution Rope Inventor Tells Justices She Deserves Her Day in Article III Court

IP Watchdog

The inventor of a novel jump rope system (the Revolution Rope), Molly Metz, argued in a reply brief to the U.S. Supreme Court filed on behalf of her company, Jump Rope Systems, LLC, on Tuesday that her case against Rogue Fitness is justiciable and the company has standing despite the cancellation of her patent claims by the U.S.

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Inventor Asks SCOTUS to Consider Patent Eligibility Again, Distinguishing Case from American Axle

IP Watchdog

Neapco just a few days earlier, inventor David Tropp on July 5 again asked the Court to unravel U.S. patent eligibility law. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of the petition in American Axle v. 101, as interpreted in Alice Corporation Pty v.

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Moderna sues Pfizer for mRNA Patent Infringement: when optics and profits reveal real issues in modern IP law usage

IPilogue

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. Code § 1498 (a).

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Federal Court Rules that Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be an Inventor under the Patent Act

Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

In Thaler , the Court confronted, analyzed and answered the question of “can an artificial intelligence machine be an ‘inventor’ under the Patent Act?” After analyzing the plain statutory language of the Patent Act and the Federal Circuit authority, the Court held that the “clear answer is no.”

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Thomas Edison and the Consumer Welfare Benefits of Patent Enforcement

IP Watchdog

Would you believe the following scenario could happen under our patent system? Commanding 50% market share in unit sales of the patented product, the patent holder prevails in patent infringement suits obtaining court injunctions against all major rivals and maintaining a strict no-licensing policy.

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The CAFC Hands Down Another Decision Demonstrating Its Misguided View of Obviousness

IP Watchdog

citizen, sued Xiaomi, a Chinese multinational corporation, for patent infringement in New York. Later, Microsoft, naming Xiaomi as the real party in interest, filed an Inter Partes Review (IPR) with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). This case has curious origins. In other words, a U.S.

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