The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently released new guidance to its examiners on how claims are to be examined under 35 U.S.C. § 101, to determine whether claims recite patent-eligible...
*This IP Alert was written in May 2018. Apple and Samsung settled the case in June 2018.
Introduction On April 24, 2018, the Supreme Court issued decisions in two highly anticipated matters concerning IPRs: Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group and SAS Institute Inc. v. Ianc...
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Introduction Over seven years after the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) was signed into law, the Supreme Court has answered two fiercely disputed questions about how certain rul...
Summary The Supreme Court yesterday reversed the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and ruled that a patent owner’s sale of a patented product exhausts all patent rights, regardless of where the sale oc...
In a decision likely to alter the current patent litigation landscape, the Supreme Court today ruled that patent infringement lawsuits may only be filed in a district where a defendant is either (a) i...
Summary On Tuesday March 21, 2017, the Supreme Court issued a 7-1 decision in SCA Hygiene Products v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC, ruling that laches—the notion that a plaintiff prejudiced a defe...
As is being widely reported in the general press, the UK has voted to exit the European Union. There are many questions about what this decision means to the global economy, but for the intellectual p...
Summary The U.S. Supreme Court today issued its decision in Cuozzo v. Lee , the first case in which the Court considered the Patent Office’s new administrative reviews of patents. The Court’s decision...
It can be rare to get good news of small companies overcoming suits brought by non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the Eastern District of Texas. So when our firm recently helped Geotab, a telematics co...
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