In In re Dominion Dealer Solutions. LLC, No. 109 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 24, 2014), Dominion petitioned the Patent Office Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) to institute inter partes review of five patents. The PTAB denied them all. …
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In St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Div., Inc. v. Volcano Corp., No. 2014-1183 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 24, 2014), St. Jude sued Volcano for patent infringement. Volcano counterclaimed against St. Jude, asserting St. Jude was infringing a Vo…
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A unanimous Supreme Court announced that the Federal Circuit’s “objectively baseless” test for awarding attorney fees to the prevailing party in patent cases is “unduly rigid, and it impermissibly encumbers the statutory…
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On April 22, 2014, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“PTAB”) ruled that a design patent claim in U.S. Patent No. D617,465 (the ‘465 Patent) is unpatentable as obvious. Munchkin, Inc. v. Luv N’ Care Ltd., No. IPR201…
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AVS sued Toyota and Gulf States—a Texas-based Toyota dealer—for patent infringement in the Eastern District of Texas. Toyota and Gulf States filed a motion (1) to sever the claims against Gulf States; (2) to transfer the cla…
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