Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
Tagged invalidity · clear
Unified Patents, is an organization known for frequently challenging patents and boasting a membership of over 3,000 companies, sought to invalidate the patent claims of Flexiworld, arguing that they were too obvious given prior inventions. However, in a…
ASTRAZENECA AB v. MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS INC. Before: Taranto, Hughes, and Stoll Summary: For purposes of claim construction, intrinsic evidence can trump the plain and ordinary meaning of scientific conventions such as significant figures. AstraZeneca AB…
COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC v. DALI WIRELESS INC. Before Stoll, Reyna, and Schall. Appeal from U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Summary: When a party distinguishes technology in the prior art to preserve validity, that same technology…
COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC v. DALI WIRELESS INC. Before Stoll, Reyna, and Schall. Appeal from U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Summary: When a party distinguishes technology in the prior art to preserve validity, that same technology…
IBSA INSTITUT BIOCHIMIQUE, S.A. V. TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC. Before Prost, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the District Court of Delaware Summary: A term may be indefinite when the proposed construction is not supported by the record and the meaning is…
IN RE: IPR LICENSING, INC., Before O’Malley, Newman, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Establishing a motivation to combine two references for an obviousness determination in an IPR requires evidentiary support, and…
In Exmark Manu facturing Company Inc. v. Briggs & Stratton Power Products Group, LLC. [2016-2197] (January 12, 2018), the Federal Circuit vacated summary judgment that claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. 5,987,863 is not anticipated or obvious; affirmed summary…
In Arctic Cat Inc. v. Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., [2017-1475] (December 8, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of judgment as a matter of law as to obviousness, the jury’s royalty rate, willfulness, treble…
In Intercontinental Great Brands LLC v. Kellogg North American Co., [2015-2082, 2015-2084] (September 7, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment that Kraft’s U.S. Patent No. 6,918,532 was invalid for obviousness, but was not…
In Genband US LLC v. Metaswitch Networks Corp., [2017-1148] (July 1-, 2017), the Federal Circuit vacated the denial of a permanent injunction and remanded for reconsideration. The jury found U.S. Patent Nos. 6,772,210; 6,791,971; 6,885,658; 6,934,279;…
Microsoft Corporation, one of the largest software companies of the world, has posed an even larger question before the U.S. Supreme Court pertaining to Patent law. Patent law has been brought to an edge now, pending decision of the Supreme Court in the…
