IP Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Following years of infringement litigation over its patented wireless chip technologies, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has recently enjoyed a pair of settlement outcomes pointing to the strength of the research university’s patent holdings.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A British nanotechnology company said Friday it landed $150 million from its litigation-funded patent infringement lawsuits against Samsung that ended in a settlement last month, just as jury selection was set to kick off in one of the cases in Marshall, Texas.

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Patent litigators who represent plaintiffs and defendants agree the new standing order favours the defence, but one litigation financier predicts well-financed patentees backed by reputable lenders will get the upper hand.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

With an average 33 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings (one post grant review, the rest inter partes reviews[IPRs]), a relatively high number (89) of district court terminations (including some high-profile settlements), and a somewhat low number (63) of suits this week, we are rolling into May.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 20, 2023

On January 6, 2023, Genentech and Tanvex reached a settlement in principle to resolve all claims with respect to Genentech’s BCPIA complaint. Tanvex responded in September 2022, denying infringement of the three patents and asserting counterclaims for declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 3, 2022

Actavis decision has guided pharmaceutical litigators and advisors exploring the antitrust risks inherent in settling pharmaceutical patent lawsuits, especially when such settlements could be viewed to include large and unjustified payments to an alleged infringing ANDA filer (or biosimilar manufacturer).

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It was another slow week for patent filings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and a typical week in district courts, with 52 district court complaints filed and 22 new PTAB petitions. There was a new discretionary denial, a bunch of litigation-provoked high-profile PTAB challenges, and some notable new litigations.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 10, 2023

In March, Samsung agreed to pay UK Nanotechnology Company Nanoco USD 150 million in a patent infringement dispute over patents used in QLED televisions that featured legal team from Wei Chixue Law Firm of Linda Liu Group - a Top 10 IP Law Firm in China. By: Linda Liu & Partners

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

On appeal, the CAFC held that CNC’s version of the agreement more accurately reflected the understanding between the two parties regarding a settlement over Plasmacam’s claim that CNC infringed U.S. 7,071,441 (‘441 patent), for which Plasmacam has an exclusive license.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

What makes the cost of patent litigation so high? What would you think if I told you that the average patent litigation cost exceeds well over $1 million ? To put it another way, how would you feel knowing that one million dollars might not get you halfway through a patent lawsuit?

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Kewalramani), the Central District of California denied Defendant Netflix’s attempts to compel Plaintiff GoTV Streaming to provide documents and further information as to the source of the litigation funding that GoTV received in conjunction with the patent litigation.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The top federal judge in Delaware concluded Monday that the Texas attorneys behind prolific patent litigation funding outfit IP Edge might have broken the law — and their ethical obligations as lawyers — by litigating ferociously for settlements from tech companies while operating behind a shadowy network of "relatively unsophisticated individuals." (..)

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IP Law 360

MARCH 2, 2023

The owner of patented battery backup technology argued Thursday a Delaware federal judge can't make it disclose third-party litigation funding after it reached settlements in two related infringement suits, contending the court lacks jurisdiction following dismissal.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Apple appears to be the latest manufacturer to come to a settlement deal with a patent licensing outfit dealing in resold LG wireless technology patents, with a recent "global settlement agreement" putting an end to appeals court litigation over the validity of patents covering purported developments in wireless charging technology.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) sued AbbVie and Besins Healthcare, co-owners of a patent that covered brand AndroGel, in 2017. The FTC claimed that the manufacturers had brought “sham” patent infringement litigation in 2011 against Teva and another generic supplier, Perrigo. Actavis, in violation of Section 5.

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IAM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A preliminary injunction has been issued against the state’s strict reverse payment law, but antitrust considerations are here to stay in IP litigation settlements.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 30, 2024

An Irish patent holding company is fighting litigation funder Longford Capital's bid to force it to arbitrate a dispute over the proceeds of a settlement that ended certain patent litigation, telling a Delaware federal court in a brief made public on Tuesday that it never agreed to those terms.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2023

Do defendants and the court have the right to ask who is funding a particular patent litigation? ” The second standing order applies when third-party persons or entities are “funding [] some or all of the party’s attorney fees and/or expenses to litigate [the] action.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 11, 2024

After years of patent litigation, they entered into a settlement and license agreement. The agreement included mutual covenants not to challenge each other’s patents during a “Covenant Period.” But an exception allowed either company to challenge a patent asserted. By: Alston & Bird

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

The are currently six patents listed in the Purple Book for J&J’s STELARA (ustekinumab). 10,961,307 (“the ’307 patent”) is directed to methods of treating colitis with ustekinumab, and according to the Purple Book, expires on September 24, 2039. Lowey Dannenberg, P.C., and Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP.

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Patent litigators who represent plaintiffs and defendants agree the new standing order favours the defence, but one litigation financier predicts well-financed patentees backed by reputable lenders will get the upper hand.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As previously reported , Genentech and Tanvex reached an agreement in January 2022 to settle BPCIA litigation relating to Tanvex’s biosimilar of HERCEPTIN (trastuzumab). The post Genentech BPCIA Trastuzumab Case Against Tanvez Dismissed After Settlement appeared first on Big Molecule Watch.

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IAM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A preliminary injunction has been issued against the state’s strict reverse payment law, but antitrust considerations are here to stay in IP litigation settlements.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

An average week saw 54 district court patent filings and 30 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) petitions, the majority of the latter being associated with semiconductor litigation.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Is patent enforcement possible for small companies? Whatever people may have heard about patent enforcement, one thing is clear. Almost everyone knows that patent infringement lawsuits are expensive. If patent infringement litigation is so costly, what options are available to startups and small businesses?

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 25, 2022

In that earlier opinion (Medtronic I), the Tax Court held that Medtronic appropriately applied a comparable uncontrolled transaction (CUT) method to determine the arm’s-length royalty rate for certain licensing of intangible property, using a 1992 patent litigation settlement agreement. By: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 1, 2023

Kewalramani), the Central District of California denied Defendant Netflix’s attempts to compel Plaintiff GoTV Streaming to provide documents and further information as to the source of the litigation funding that GoTV received in conjunction with the patent litigation.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 6, 2024

announced it has signed a settlement agreement with Bayer Inc. The settlement resolves multiple patent infringement proceedings in the Federal Court of Canada. In March 2023, Health Canada granted tentative approval for YESAFILI 2 mg vials, subject to resolution of any patent disputes. On March 4, Biocon Biologics Ltd.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2023

patent system. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on “Discretionary Institution Practices, Petition Word-Count Limits, and Settlement Practices for America Invents Act Trial Proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board [PTAB]” was Tuesday, June 20.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

district court data on how patent damages expert testimony has been challenged based on comparability, and how courts have ruled with regard to license and settlement agreements, litigation verdicts, market studies and more. Rich Franciosa and Michael Herrigel at Charles River Associates analyze nearly seven years of U.S.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A banner week saw the district court roaring back to life with 93 new patent filings and over 50 closed cases, including all of the remanded Section 101 rulings in Realtime Data, LLC. The order is still sealed, but as it closes the cases again, one must assume it provides additional reasoning and again cancels Realtime’s patents under 101.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 19, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In a recent nonprecedential decision, the Federal Circuit dismissed Ontel’s appeal seeking to overturn the PTAB’s IPR decision upholding the patentability of Dafni’s hair straightening brush patents. Dafni had originally sued Ontel for infringing several different patents. Ontel Products Corp. Shaked Invs.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 26, 2024

After seven years of successful litigation, it was understandable that St. Jude Medical's too-quick response to a mediator's email left it stuck with a settlement it didn't want. In a patent case, there are always loose ends that remain before a settlement can be finalized. NLC) to bed.

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IAM Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Deal ends litigation in China and Europe, with Xiaomi gaining rights to mobile patents owned by Sisvel and Mitsubishi Electric.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Federal Circuit has provided additional guidance about an appellant’s standing to appeal IPR decisions after settling the related litigations and entering into patent license agreements. In its second decision between the parties on this topic, the court has dismissed the appeal for lack of Article III standing in Apple Inc.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Seventh Circuit issued this week a long-awaited opinion in the HUMIRA antitrust litigation, UFCW Local 1500 Welfare Fund v. created a “patent thicket” around HUMIRA to block biosimilars from entering the market and entered into “reverse payment” settlement agreements with biosimilar applicants to further delay entry. .

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Stec, from testifying as to reasonable royalty damages, where Dr. Stec had relied on a license agreement between third parties, jury verdicts, and settlement agreements. Stec cited a number of agreements, but the only one he relied on that was not a litigation settlement was between iPIN Debit Network, Inc. iPIN license”).

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