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USA: In re Urbanski, United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, No....
Cheryl BeiseCCHThe Patent Trial and Appeal Board did not err in affirming the rejection of several claims of a patent application directed to a method of enzymatic hydrolysis of soy fiber suitable as a...
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USA: TriReme Medical, LLC v. AngioScore, Inc, United States Court of Appeals,...
Cheryl BeiseCCHMedical device manufacturer TriReme Medical, LLC had standing to pursue a claim to correct the inventorship of three patents owned by competitor AngioScore, Inc., based on an assignment...
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USA: ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, United...
Cheryl BeiseCCHThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has decided not to grant requests for and en banc rehearing of an earlier panel decision holding that the International Trade Commission...
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USA: Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corp, United States Court of Appeals, Federal...
Cheryl BeiseCCHIn an inter partes review of a patent owned by Wi-Fi One, LLC (“Wi-Fi”), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision to deny Wi-Fi’s request to conduct discovery into whether Broadcom...
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USA: Lyda v. CBS Corporation, United States Court of Appeals, Federal...
Cheryl BeiseCCHA district court did not err in dismissing an inventor’s claim that CBS Corporation, its CBS Interactive subsidiary, and “others under the control or direction of an independent...
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USA: Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG v. Churchill Drilling Tools...
Cheryl BeiseCCHThe Patent Trial and Appeal Board properly found during inter partes review (IPR) that two claims of a patent directed to a mechanism for controlling the operation of a downhole drill...
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USA: Tile Tech, Inc. v. United Construction Products, Inc, United States...
Cheryl BeiseCCHThe federal district court in Los Angeles did not err in granting default judgment and a permanent injunction to United Construction Products, Inc. dba Bison Innovative Products on its...
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USA: Bayer CropScience AG v. Dow AgroSciences LLC, United States Court of...
Cheryl BeiseThe federal district court in Wilmington, Delaware, did not abuse its discretion in finding that Bayer CropScience’s infringement suit against agrochemical rival Dow AgroSciences over...
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USA: Credit Acceptance Corp. v. Westlake Services, United States Court of...
Cheryl BeiseThe Patent Trial and Appeal Board did not err in instituting Covered Business Method (“CBM”) review and finding several claims of a financing method patent owned by Credit Acceptance...
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USA: Home Semiconductor Corp. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, United States...
Cheryl BeiseThe Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s construction of a key claim term in a patent directed to a method for fabricating a self-aligned contact hole in a semiconductor circuit was overbroad in...
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USA: In re Smith International, Inc, United States Court of Appeals, Federal...
Cheryl BeiseThe Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s construction of the term “body” disclosed in multiple claims of a downhole drilling tool patent has been reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
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USA: Ignite USA LLC v. CamelBak Products LLC, United States Court of Appeals,...
Cheryl BeiseFollowing inter partes review of several claims of a patent directed to a trigger/seal mechanism for a beverage container, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board properly applied the broadest...
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USA: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Hospira, Inc., United States Court of...
Cheryl BeiseThe federal district court in Wilmington, Delaware, did not err in finding that several claims of a patent for preparing a stable formulation of the antibiotic compound ertapenem owned by...
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USA: Elbit Systems of America, LLC v. Thales Visiounix, Inc., United States...
Cheryl BeiseSubstantial evidence supported the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s finding that an inter partes review petitioner failed to show that a patent owned by Thales Visionix—claiming a method for...
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USA: DSS Technology Management, Inc. v. Apple Inc., United States Court of...
Cheryl BeiseTwo final decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board—each finding that certain apparatus claims of a wireless communication network owned by DSS Technology Management were invalid as...
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USA: Maxon, LLC v. Funai Corporation, Inc., United States Court of Appeals,...
Cheryl BeiseThe federal district court in Chicago did not err in dismissing a patent infringement suit filed by Maxon, LLC against several smart television manufacturers on the ground that the asserted...
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USA: Ericsson Incorporated v. Intellectual Ventures I LLC, United States...
Cheryl BeiseThe Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s conclusion following inter partes review that a cellular communications patent directed to frequency hopping owned by Intellectual Ventures I LLC was...
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USA: Cortes-Ramos v. Martin-Morales, United States Court of Appeals, First...
Cheryl BeiseThe federal district court in San Juan, Puerto Rico, erred in dismissing copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and state law claims brought by a music contestant against pop...
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USA: Swartz v. Iancu, United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, No....
Cheryl BeiseThe federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, properly dismissed an inventor’s appeal of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decisions rejecting six patent applications on the grounds...
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USA: Yellowfin Yachts, Inc. v. Barker Boatworks, LLC, United States Court of...
Cheryl BeiseThe federal district court in Tampa did not err in deciding on summary judgment that fishing boat manufacturer Yellowfin Yachts failed to establish that a former executive and his company...
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