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CAFC Making it Easier to Get an Injunction? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
Several weeks ago, the Federal Circuit issued an interesting decision in Aria Diagnostics v. Sequenom, which seems to continue a recent trend showing that at least certain panels of the Federal Circui...
USPTO to Host Software Partnership Meeting at Berkeley Law 21 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced that it will host its next Software Partnership Meeting on Thursday, October 17, 2013, at the U.C...
CAFC Upholds ITC Exclusion Order in Rule 36 Judgment 19 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
“Man Controlling Trade” outside the ITC in DC, by NY sculptor Michael Lantz (1942). The United States Court of Appeals recently issued a Rule 36 Summary Affirmance of the April 27, 2012 Final Determi...
CAFC Reverses Summary Judgment on Doctrine of Equivalents 16 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am
In The Charles Machine Works, Inc. v. Vermeer Manufacturing Co. (Fed. Cir., July 26, 2013), the patent in question was U.S. Patent 5,490,569 (the “’569 patent”), which generally relates to a two-pipe ...
CAFC OKs JMOL When Expert Changes Testimony at Trial 14 Aug 2013 | 08:41 pm
Recently, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Rembrandt Vision Technologies v. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care. The issue in the case primarily centered around whether the district court correctly ...
Problem Child – A Third-Grade Approach to Patent Owners 12 Aug 2013 | 10:19 pm
Last week on IPWatchdog.com, I published a five-part series that debunked many prevalent myths about patent trolls. See A Fractured Fairy Tale: Separating Fact and Fiction on Patent Trolls, written by...
Beat the Summer Heat with Patents 1 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
We are in the throes of summer, which any more means extremely high temperatures coast to coast with little relief. As you might imagine, there are any number of patents that attempt to deal with keep...
Federal Circuit Affirms Tossed $18 Million Jury Verdict 30 Jul 2013 | 02:37 am
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently issued a decision in Novozymes v. Du Pont, where there was a two-judge majority and a dissent filed by Chief Judge Rader. The questi...
The Wright Brothers Would Be a Patent Troll Today 25 Jul 2013 | 11:41 pm
On July 1, 2013, I had the opportunity to once again speak with Ray Niro on the record in a discussion about patent trolls, non-practising entities and the near media circus that is engulfing the disc...
Patent Litigation Settlement Suggests Both Parties Just Gave Up 22 Jul 2013 | 07:29 pm
On July 18, 2013, Complete Genomics, Inc., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BGI-Shenzhen (“BGI”), announced that it entered into a settlement agreement with Illumina, Inc. under which Illumina wi...
