In Packet Intelligence LLC, v. Netscout Systems, Inc. the Federal Circuit reversed a jury determination for pre-suit damages, and vacated an enhancement of such damages, for Netscout’s infringement of U.S. Patent 6,665,725, U.S.…
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The Bicentennial Man is out of luck.* The Patent Office recently issued a ruling that only a human can be an inventor.
The application at issue listed “DABUS” as the sole inventor. DABUS is a collection of neural nets designed…
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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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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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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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