Providing a reminder about how to interpret elements of a patent claim when analyzing the claim against prior art during patent prosecution, in Technical Consumer Products, Inc. v. Lighting Science Group Corp. (April 8, 2020), the…
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In a recently designated precedential decision (Ex parte Grillo-Lopez), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) explained the differences regarding what a printed publication is during inter partes review (IPR) and what a printed…
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In Finjan, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. Case No. 17-cv-00072-BLF (N. D. Cal. Feb. 3, 2020) the Northern District of California denied Plaintiff Finjan’s motion for summary judgement of validity of a number of claims of various pa…
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The Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the PTAB finding that the claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,529,806 are “obvious over [the prior art] in light of the general knowledge of a skilled artisan.” Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Go…
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Hewlett Packard Enterprises (“HP”), accused of infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,218,930 owned by Network-1 Technologies, Inc. (“Network-1”), was recently estopped from relying on certain references and combinations thereof to…
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