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Yes, Your Read is Accurate... business method patentees can be liable for attorney fees post-Alice
According to a recent precedential Court of Appeals opinion, business method patentees can be liable for attorney fees when continuing to...
Functional Claim Language & Indefiniteness, Sometimes Different Sides of the Same Coin... Someti
Two recent precedential decisions out of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit provide interesting instruction on functional claim...
Aqua Products v. US PTO, Post-Grant Amendment Burdens
In early October the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided another hot button issue regarding AIA post-grant proceedings at...
In re: Cray, Inc., Venue and Remote Employees
Venue was a hot topic for patent law in 2017 due in heavy part to the US Supreme Court granting certiorari in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods....
NantKwest, Inc. v. Matal, USPTO & Section 145 Attorneys’ Fees
At the end of last month, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made the bold decision to rehear en banc the question of whether...
AIA Trials & the Non-Story of Patent Owner Preliminary Responses
Since the effective date of the America Invents Act’s new inter partes reviews on September 16, 2012 patent stakeholders have wanted to...
The Complexities of Modern Priority -- A Question of 102, 112 or Both?
Priority and novelty are inseparable; any system of awarding patent rights to inventors will naturally ask “were you first to invent?” ...
Trademark's "Happy Talk Clause" (Matal v. Tam)
Yesterday the US Supreme Court found unconstitutional the Lanham Act’s “happy-talk clause,” i.e., the anti-disparagement clause as it was...
Taking Notes, Global Portfolio Management Strategies in view of Life Technologies v. Promega
As expected another patent decision came down last month from the US Supreme Court. Life Technologies v. Promega, Case No.: 14-1538 (Feb....
Patent Litigation Estoppel, Still a Quagmire?
Patent litigation estoppel applies when a party’s previous activities forfeit their ability to petition for certain legal rights/defenses...
