A district court recently held the scope of estoppel from covered-business-method (CBM) review encompasses the references used in the CBM as well as almost-identical references. (Solutran, Inc. v. U.S. Bancorp et al. (D. Minn. 201…
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Only a few factual allegations are required to survive a Motion to Dismiss a complaint alleging patent infringement, held the Southern District of Florida in Raptor, LLC. and Concrete Services, LLC. v. Odebrecht Construction, Inc.…
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The Federal Circuit recently clarified the limits of the safe harbor provision of 35 USC §121. In In re: Janssen Biotech, Inc., New York University, No. 2017-1257 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 23, 2018), the Federal Circuit upheld a Patent Tri…
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Earlier this month in Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Wangs Alliance Corp., Civil Action No. 14-12298-DJC (D. Mass. Jan. 2, 2018), the District of Massachusetts added another case to the majority view of the scope of inter partes revi…
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Written agreements discussing an employee’s obligation to patent assignment rights were insufficient to actually assign ownership in U.S .Patent No. 5,781,788, a divided Federal Circuit panel has held. Advanced Video Technologie…
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Federal Circuit addressed the pleading standards for patent infringement in Lifetime Indus., Inc. v. Trim-Lok, Inc., No. 3:13-cv-00819-RLM-MGG (N.D. Indiana September 7, 2017). Reversing and remanding a decision of the district…
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In Finjan v. Blue Coat Systems, LLC, No. 15-cv-03295-BLF, (N.D. Cal. July 28, 2017), the court took the majority view on the scope of Inter Partes review estoppel, finding no estoppel for grounds of invalidity not included in a pe…
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When a plaintiff accuses multiple defendants of cooperating to infringe a patent, a well-pled complaint must make clear which defendant controls an accused system, and how defendants cooperate to practice a claimed method. On th…
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Does the fact that relevant information is “arguably within [the defendant’s] sole possession” affect the plaintiff’s burden in pleading a claim for patent infringement? In Prowire, LLC v. Apple, Inc. , the United States…
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A patent assignee was found to have standing to assert a patent assigned to it, even though the patent assignor retained both a conditional right to mandate a return assignment, and to receive 50% of any enforcement proceeds. In…
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