• Corporate Goals in the Patent Landscape: 5 Ways to Perfect Your Product Launch

    Many companies use checklists to ensure they follow certain protocols. Handling patent rights in a consumer product launch is no different. The last thing your company wants after making a considerable investment in bringing a new product to the market is being slapped with a lawsuit alleging patent …

     
  • Full Fed. Circ. Told Patent In LG Case Rightly Survived Alice

    Law360 (April 3, 2018, 7:36 PM EDT) — Core Wireless urged the Federal Circuit on Monday to reject LG’s en banc petition arguing that the court misread the U.S. Supreme Court’s Alice ruling when it upheld the validity of two Core patents, saying the decision was “entirely consistent” with the... Continue reading

     
  • Fed. Circ. Clears PTAB’s Trim Of EMED Needle Shield Patent

    Fed. Circ. Clears PTAB’s Trim Of EMED Needle Shield Patent … Law360 (April 3, 2018, 7:25 PM EDT) — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board correctly invalidated the majority of EMED Technologies Corp.’s patent covering a guard to prevent people from injury by needles, the Federal Circuit said Tuesday.

     
  • Justices Warned Of Peril In Expanding Patent Lost Profits

    … Ion Geophysical Corp., with amicus support from major technology companies, has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject calls to let patent owners recover profits lost outside the U.S. as a result of infringement, saying the recoveries would be an “intolerable” shift in law leading to “staggering awards.”

     
  • Vorys Sater Absorbs Pittsburgh IP Boutique, Adds 10 Attys

    It’s Considering Indefinite Standard; 4 PTAB Gives Hope For Patent Amendments Amid Reform Talk; 5 5 Ways To Know You’re Ready To Go In-House. © 2018, Portfolio Media, Inc. About | Contact Us | Legal Jobs | Careers at Law360 | Terms | Privacy Policy | Law360 Updates | Help... Continue reading

     
  • King & Spalding Nabs Cooley IP Trial Partner

    Law360 (April 3, 2018, 5:29 PM EDT) — King & Spalding LLP has hired an intellectual property trial partner from Cooley LLP, where he chaired the firm’s IP practice from 2012 to 2016 and represented life sciences and technology clients such as Qualcomm, Gevo, Hon Hai and Monolithic Power Systems …

     
  • Creative Plaintiffs Drive Rapid Evolution of Patent Venue Law

    After the Supreme Court drastically altered patent venue law last year, plaintiffs are scrambling for ways to keep suing corporate defendants in perceived plaintiff-friendly forums, such as the Eastern District of Texas. After a quarter-century in which patent plaintiffs could sue a defendant anywhere it is …

     
  • Big Ten Broadcasts Infringe Swedish Co.’s Patent, Suit Says

    Law360 (April 3, 2018, 4:52 PM EDT) — The Big Ten Network’s ability to air several live sporting events through one remote control room, as opposed to having to set up shop with a broadcasting van outside of each event, infringes a patent a Swedish media company says it owns... Continue reading

     
  • Increase in Combo Product Patents Delay Competition Further, Researchers Find

    The researchers from the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School point to the example of Mylan’s EpiPen, which still does not have any equivalent competitors, except for Mylan’s own authorized generic, which launched …

     
  • Supreme Court refuses to stay SC/ST ruling

    The bench, which agreed to hear the Centre’s review petition in open court, said that its verdict can only be reviewed if there is a “patent error” in law. The apex court had said on March 20 that a preliminary inquiry should precede the arrest of an accused under the... Continue reading