Federal Circuit Clarifies Standard for Indefiniteness of Mixed Subject Matter Claims
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/11/03/federal-circuit-indefiniteness-mixed-subject-matter-claims/id=89903/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29Because it is clear when infringement occurs, and the scope of the claims is reasonably certain, the Court reversed the judgment of invalidity due to indefiniteness... Claims having functional element ...
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3M files patent and trademark suit against Chinese manufacturer of spray gun paint preparation system
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/24/3m-files-patent-trademark-suit-chinese-manufacturer-spray-gun-paint-preparation-system/id=89343/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29On September 21st, Saint Paul, MN-based technology and materials company 3M (NYSE:MMM) filed a lawsuit alleging patent and trademark infringement committed by Shanghai, China-based Thunder Finish. The ...
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Federal Circuit Holds a ‘Similar Enough’ Claim Construction Doesn’t Violate the APA
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/11/29/federal-circuit-similar-enough-claim-construction-apa/id=103652/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29In Hamilton Beach Brands v. F’Real Foods, the Federal Circuit found that under the Administrative Procedure Act, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s adopted claim construction in an IPR need not be id ...
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ITC opens patent infringement investigation after Qualcomm files complaint against Apple
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/08/09/itc-patent-infringement-investigation-qualcomm-files-complaint-apple/id=86654/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29On Tuesday, August 8th, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that it was opening up an investigation on claims that Cupertino, CA-based consumer electronics behemoth Apple Inc. (NAS ...
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CAFC denies Amgen discovery in biosimilar patent dispute
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/08/18/cafc-denies-amgen-discover-biosimilar-patent-dispute/id=86996/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29In a patent infringement case governed by the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (“BPCIA”), the Federal Circuit found that it lacked jurisdiction to compel discovery in the distric ...
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Federal Circuit Clarifies On-Sale Bar Under America Invents Act
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/05/07/federal-circuit-clarifies-on-sale-bar-america-invents-act/id=82955/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29In Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharms. USA, Inc., the Federal Circuit reversed the district court and held that Helsinn’s pre-AIA patent claims, “were subject to an invalidating contract for sale ...
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Federal Circuit upholds PTAB invalidation of podcasting patent despite district court infringement finding
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/08/14/federal-circuit-upholds-ptab-invalidation-podcasting-patent-despite-district-court-infringement/id=86692/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29On Monday, August 7th, a judicial panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit entered a decision in Personal Audio, LLC v. Electronic Frontier Foundation which is being widely hailed by ...
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Jazz Pharmaceuticals | Does the Federal Circuit Really Understand the Dichotomy in the Printed Publication Bar?
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/07/19/jazz-pharmaceuticals-federal-circuit-really-understand-dichotomy-printed-publication-bar/id=99462/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29Unfortunately, Lourie’s opinion in Jazz Pharmaceuticals (equally mindless in my opinion) simply latches onto Prost’s words in Suffolk Technologies that a “printed publication need not be easily search ...
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Clearing the Underbrush: How to Fight Low Quality Patents Related to Commoditized Technology that Threaten Innovation
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/02/21/fight-low-quality-patents-commoditized-technology-threaten-innovation/id=78581/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29IP departments are often forced to spend their limited budget defending patent troll lawsuits targeted at the base computing and service layers instead of where it should be spent – protecting applica ...
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Prescription Tracking Patents Confirmed as Unpatentable After IPR Appeal
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/07/24/prescription-tracking-patents-confirmed-unpatentable-after-ipr-appeal/id=99532/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29The Federal Circuit reviewed whether certain prior art was “publicly accessible,” because Jazz alleged the material was not a “printed publication” under Section 102(b). Jazz argued that the material, ...
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Supreme Court Reverses Federal Circuit on Venue for Patent Infringement Suits
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/05/26/supreme-court-reverses-federal-circuit-venue-patent-infringement-suits/id=83726/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29In the U.S. Supreme Court case of TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brands LLC, venue in patent infringement cases are governed by 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), which states that patent infringement suits c ...
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ITC opens 337 investigation for potential patent infringement by Apple screen sharing technology
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/11/21/itc-337-investigation-patent-infringement-apple-screen-sharing/id=90325/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that it was investigating potential patent infringement committed by Cupertino, CA-based consumer tech giant Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)... Aqua Co ...
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Is there a Tide-Change in the Prospects of Patenting Business Method Innovations?
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/05/25/prospects-patenting-business-method-innovations/id=83693/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29In the years after the Alice decision, it had seemed as though examiners in the business method art units felt as though their hands were tied with respect to issuing applications. Even if they had re ...
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Claims not directed to abstract results when reciting specific steps that accomplish a desired result
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/01/19/abstract-results-steps-desired-result/id=92558/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29According to the Federal Circuit, The claims simply do not simply recite an abstract result. Because the claims recite specific steps that accomplish a desired result, the the claims were found to be ...
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Claims can be invalidated for reasons first articulated in rebuttal to a Patent Owner’s arguments in an IPR
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/09/25/rebuttal-arguments-grounds-invalidity-ipr/id=88122/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29Idemitsu Kosan Co. v. SFC Co., the Federal Circuit affirmed the Board’s decision to invalidate as obvious certain patent claims directed to a device that emits light when electric current is passed th ...
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Federal Circuit Affirms District Court’s Finding of Validity of Claims Directed to Aveed®
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/07/27/federal-circuit-affirms-district-courts-finding-of-validity-of-claims-directed-to-aveed/id=99533/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29When relying on scientific guidelines to support an obviousness rationale, practitioners should offer evidence for why contradictory guidelines should be discounted. A claimed constituent is not “nece ...
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The Patent System and Quantum Mechanics | Two Uncertainties
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/05/29/patent-system-quantum-mechanics-two-uncertainties/id=97856/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29Our patent system was also been built upon classical rules and understandings, e.g., earlier patent systems, and the thoughts of Rousseau, Locke and others who influenced our Founders in the creation ...
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The PTAB Continues to Break Patent Promises to the Detriment of Inventors
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/05/15/ptab-break-patent-promises-detriment-of-inventors/id=96765/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29Surviving inventors are incredibly rare. I have met dozens of inventors with incredible discoveries whose naïve belief in the patent system have cost them way more than they have gained. They taught a ...
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Importance of Motions to Stay in Modern Patent Litigation
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/29/importance-of-motions-to-stay-in-modern-patent-litigation/id=89605/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29The TC Heartland decision follows the trend of eroding patent holder rights due to the potential for infringers to more easily move the lawsuit to a more favorable forum and in some cases have the iss ...
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C-Suite Executives More Aware of Trademark Portfolio Risk and Reward
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/04/18/c-suite-executives-trademark-portfolio-risks-rewards/id=81983/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29Eight in ten C-level executives believe trademark infringement of their marks is on the rise... Despite their feeling that trademark infringement is on the rise, 66% of organizations stated they had p ...
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Federal Circuit decides Aqua Products, says patentability burden of amended claims on Petitioner
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/04/federal-circuit-aqua-products-patentability-burden-amended-claims-petitioner/id=88855/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29Sitting en banc the Federal Circuit issued a narrow ruling saying that the burden of persuasion must remain at all times on the petitioner, including with respect to demonstration of unpatentability o ...
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Federal Circuit Denies Petition for Rehearing En Banc in Xitronix Appeal on Walker Process Claims
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/06/21/federal-circuit-denies-petition-rehearing-xitronix-appeal/id=98560/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29On Friday, June 15th, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied a petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation. The petition for rehea ...
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Federal Circuit says inequitable conduct can be inferred from activities in a later patent litigation?
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/13/federal-circuit-inequitable-conduct-inferred-later-patent-litigation/id=88978/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29Although the patent prosecution process is adversarial in nature, patent practitioners must be keenly aware of their duty to maintain the integrity of any subsequently issued patent by supplying the p ...
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PCT Species Claim Sufficient to Support Priority Claim of Later-filed Genus Claim
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/03/26/pct-species-claim-sufficient-support-priority-genus-claim/id=95193/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29The issue was whether the PCT, which disclosed a “connection to fibre optics bundle which provides for lighting” was a sufficient written description to support the “light guide” “permanently affixed” ...
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A Primer on Indefiniteness and Means Plus Function
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/11/15/primer-indefiniteness-means-plus-function/id=89708/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29Means plus function claiming allows the drafter to claim the invention based on functionality rather than the more traditional (and preferred) claiming technique that employs structure within the body ...
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Federal Circuit Clarifies Standard for Pleading Infringement in Lifetime v. Trim-Lok
【個別ページ】 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/09/26/federal-circuit-clarifies-standard-pleading-infringement-lifetime-v-trim-lok/id=88200/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ipwatchdog+%28IPWatchdog.com%29Lifetime Industries, Inc. v. Trim-Lok, Inc., 2017-1096, (Fed. Cir. Sept 7, 2017) is an appeal involving a dispute over the correct pleading standard in the context of allegation of infringement of a p ...