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Law360 (February 13, 2018, 8:00 PM EST) — The days of patents regularly being invalidated under Alice early in a case could be over following a Federal Circuit decision that a judge wrongly granted summary judgment that a patent claimed only abstract ideas, attorneys say, and the contentious issue …
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Law360 (February 13, 2018, 7:48 PM EST) — The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board found Monday that Google had shown certain claims of a Makor Issues & Rights Ltd. traffic system patent were invalid as obvious but said the internet giant failed to prove that several claims of a... Continue reading
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Law360 (February 13, 2018, 6:44 PM EST) — A California federal judge on Monday ordered network device maker Nomadix Inc. to disclose patent information related to the counterclaims filed against it by a hotel entertainment company, explaining that the patent licenses could help establish damages …
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Cloudflare decided not only to fight the case, but to fight all of Blackbird’s patents, crowdsourcing and funding searches into prior art on any patent held by Blackbird Technologies, and arguing that the company was engaging in questionable legal practices — acting both as a patent holding company and …
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Microsoft had requested more than $1 million in damages for the infringement of patents related to Microsoft Office (i.e., the Microsoft Office patents). … parties will submit a status report and/or stipulation regarding the need for any briefing as relating to JMOL (Judgment as a Matter of Law) and damages.
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Greene’s Energy Group, challenging the constitutionality of “inter partes review” (IPR) proceedings, has received the lion’s share of coverage, the U.S. Supreme Court’s other IPR case—SAS Institute v. Matal—warrants attention. The case addresses whether 35 U.S.C. Section 318(a) requires the Patent …
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The guidance states that national law, EU law, and other international provisions included in relevant treaties and international agreements on industrial and intellectual property should be taken in account to elaborate the definition of the listed qualifying IP and the related protection requirements.
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An US court has trashed a patent at the center of Cloudflare’s legal war with patent troll Blackbird Technologies – and thrown out the latter’s case against the web biz. In a victory for Cloudflare, Judge Vince Chhabria, sitting in a northern district court of California, ruled on Monday [PDF]... Continue reading
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