Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
Written by : Brandon D. Hupka & Jeremy Anapol IOENGINE, LLC v. Ingenico Inc. Before Lourie, Chen , and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Claim limitations requiring communications to be “encrypted” or to deliver…
Written by : Tyler S. Cox & Karen Cassidy Selvaggio PACKET INTELLIGENCE LLC v. NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. Before Lourie, Hughes, and Stark . Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Summary: An infringement judgment is only…
Written by : Matthew J. Petersen & Douglas B. Wentzel LUV N’ CARE, LTD. v. LAURAIN Before Reyna, Hughes, and Stark . Appeal from the Western District of Louisiana. Summary : The district court correctly found unclean hands, but erred by finding no…
In a significant legal ruling, semiconductor Micron Technology has been ordered to pay $445 million to competitor Netlist Inc. for patent infringement. The jury's decision, delivered by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, found…
Moderna recently registered a significant triumph in its ongoing patent dispute concerning its Covid-19 vaccine against Pfizer and BioNTech. The European Patent Office (EPO) upheld the legitimacy of a key Moderna patent in an oral verdict, boosting the…
CASE OF THE WEEK Copan Italia SPA v. Puritan Med. Prods. Co. LLC , Appeal No. 2022-1943 (Fed. Cir. May 14, 2024) The Federal Circuit’s only precedential opinion concerning a patent case this week had nothing to do with patent law. Instead, it…
The interface of patent infringement disputes and international trade is an arena of practice that has catapulted several attorneys to the forefront. The Section 337 investigations of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), in particular, have…
A federal jury in Delaware has ruled that Microsoft must pay a staggering $242 million to IPA Technologies for infringing patent US 6,851,115 , related to its Cortana virtual-assistant software. The verdict followed a week-long trial. IPA Technologies, a…
CASE OF THE WEEK SnapRays v. Lighting Defense Group , Appeal No. 2023-1184 (Fed. Cir. May 2, 2024) Our Case of the Week deals with an issue the Court has not addressed recently: the question of declaratory judgment jurisdiction. Specifically, the Court…
In late February this year, we published our fifth annual ITC Intelligence Report 2024, diving into a comprehensive analysis of investigations filed during the past six years, from January 2018 to December 2023. This extensive report offers a wealth of…
In a move aimed at safeguarding the interests of the US solar industry, a coalition of American solar manufacturers has filed an antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) petition against solar cells and panels originating from Southeast Asia. The…
Tomorrow marks the highly anticipated release of our fourth annual Trademark Intelligence Report, offering a comprehensive analysis of the trademark landscape in the United States. Over the past five years, from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2023, the…
