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Google sues Sonos for Patent Infringement – Again

IPilogue

But this relationship soured soon after, with Sonos accusing Google of monopolistic practices and of using patent laws to squash competition from small companies. Sonos claims that Google’s infringement of over 100 of Sonos’ patents is deliberate and a business model. What may occur moving forward.

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

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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. This exposes some concerns about our patent laws. Code § 1498 (a).

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"objectively baseless" patent infringement claims can constitute tortious interference/defamation

43(B)log

27, 2022) A rare tortious interference/business defamation case that results in a preliminary injunction (converted from a TRO), based on claims of patent infringement made to plaintiff’s customers. This requires that infringement claims be objectively baseless. Nu Tsai Capital LLC, NO. 8:22CV314, 2022 WL 15523245 (D.

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Supreme Court on Patent Law: November 2023

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court is set to consider several significant patent law petitions addressing a range of issues from the application of obviousness standards, challenges to PTAB procedures, interpretation of joinder time limits IPR, to the proper scope patent eligibility doctrine. Mangrove Partners Master Fund (No.

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Book Review: A Practitioner’s Guide to European Patent Law (with a discount code)

The IPKat

This Kat is delighted to review “ A Practitioner’s Guide to European Patent Law: For National Practice and the Unified Patent Court ” (Hart Publishing, 2022, 664 pp.). The book consists of seventeen chapters, mainly on substantive law, but it also addresses certain procedural matters and questions of international private law.

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Federal Circuit Clarifies Standards for Willful Patent Infringement and Enhanced Damages

The IP Law Blog

Willful patent infringement can result in enhanced, and in some case treble, damages but not in every instance. Because the standard for finding willful infringement has traditionally been lower than that for enhancing damages, a finding of willful infringement does not guarantee an award of enhanced damages. Portec, Inc.,

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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. Lite-Netics send a notice to the trade that Lite-Netics’s magnetic string lights were protected by U.S.