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The U.S. Supreme Court has rarely addressed the issue of patent damages, but a case currently before the court has the potential to create significant changes in this area of the law. The issue of contention pertains to patent damages on an international scale. When a U.S. patent is infringed,... Continue reading
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In a 7-2 decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the nation’s highest court ruled that patent rights were fundamentally a government-granted privilege that could properly come with strings attached. One such condition is the risk that the patent office might change its mind and invalidate a patent that …
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Education and Training. Studied Mechanical Engineering in Essen, Manchester and Nantes. Gained a Master of Business Administration degree from the CDI, Paris-Montreal-Stuttgart. Worked several years in one of the major Japanese Patent and Law Firms. Got his legal training to become a patent …
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A competitor, Greene’s Energy Group, successfully challenged the patent under the procedure, called “inter partes” review, which is Latin for “between the parties.” An administrative tribunal created by the 2011 law, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, ruled that the patent was invalid. According to a brief …
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In Oil States, the Supreme Court held in a 7-2 decision that IPR proceedings are constitutional and do not violate Article III or the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution and that patent rights are public rights arising between the government and others. The Court further explained that an IPR involves …
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As the Free Beacon has previously reported, the PTAB is responsible for reviewing patents whose validity have been challenged. The PTAB runs on a host of procedures alien to federal court proceedings: lower evidentiary standards, the ability of anyone to challenge a patent right, and a broad …
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In what must be one of its most important patent opinions in recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning upheld the constitutionality of inter partes reviews (IPRs)–the opposition-like procedures that Congress established in 2011 as part of the America Invents Act–in Oil States Energy Services, …
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ISSUE. Does 35 U.S.C. § 318(a), which provides that the Patent Trial and. Appeal Board in an inter partes review “shall issue a final written decision with respect to the patentability of any patent claim challenged by the petitioner,” require the Board to issue a final written decision as to... Continue reading
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14, 2016, when Nite Ize and Robert Ziemian, a patent attorney at a national law firm, petitioned the ITC to investigate the case. They alleged violations by 32 Chinese companies based on imports and the sales of imports in the U.S. of mobile device holders and components that infringed upon... Continue reading
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PIPLA is an organization of Intellectual Property lawyers and law student affiliates primarily in the Greater Philadelphia area including the Philadelphia surrounding counties, Southern New Jersey and Delaware. PIPLA promotes the development and understanding of Intellectual Property Law through …
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