IP Alerts

Introduction

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...

Executive Summary

An important Federal Circuit decision was issued on November 10, 2015 in ClearCorrect Operating LLC v. International Trade Commission, No. 14-1527. A split (2-1) panel of the Federal Circuit ruled tha...

Executive Summary For those considering the use of design patents as part of their patent protection arsenal, an additional system for pursuing domestic and foreign design rights is available to Unite...

Executive Summary