The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) recently precluded the use of multiple online references in a validity challenge due to poor indexing. According to the Board, the lack of organization and search capabilities precluded these references from being deemed “publicly accessible” for use as prior art “printed publications.”
Despite the splintered, three-opinion decision issued by a Federal Circuit panel in July,[1] the Federal Circuit, on October 20, denied Baylor College of Medicine’s petition for rehearing, either by the panel or en banc. In the original decision, the Federal Circuit held that due to Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity, the
On October 20, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit resuscitated J-B Weld’s (“J-B”) action for trade dress infringement and trade dress dilution against Gorilla Glue (“Gorilla”) by reversing the lower court’s grant of Gorilla Glue’s motion for summary judgment. The Court found that the lower court failed to discuss all of the
You are more than likely familiar with Pocky, a popular stick-shaped biscuit cookie dipped in chocolate. Lotte, a South Korean conglomerate, makes its own version, called Pepero, which also consists of a thin biscuit cookie dipped in chocolate. Glico’s Pocky was the first such snack, but both have been selling
State and federal claims brought by various models for unauthorized use of their images in advertisements by a strip club received mixed results on cross motions for summary judgment in the District of Arizona. Plaintiffs prevailed on their state law misappropriation claim, but their state law false light claims were
Since Judge Alan Albright took the bench in the Western District of Texas in 2018, the former patent litigator’s extensive experience, as well as the rise of Austin as a tech hub, has driven patent infringement filings to that District, with 618 new patent infringement filings this year through September
On September 8, 2020, the Federal Circuit affirmed the final written decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), finding that Trans Ova failed to show that XY’s challenged patent was obvious. During oral argument on Trans Ova’s appeal, the Panel took most of the time to grill the
On September 1, 2020, the Northern District of Illinois held microphone manufacturer Shure in contempt for selling a beam-forming microphone that was no more than colorably different than the prior Shure product preliminarily enjoined for patent infringement in 2019. Shure argued that its redesign was non-infringing. But ClearOne relied on
The Federal Circuit vacated the decision of a district court declaring a patent invalid for failure to name all inventors. The Court held the patentee’s former request to remove the inventor and subsequent attempt to add that inventor back to the patent were justified and did not trigger judicial estoppel.
Although Phytelligence. Inc. (“Phytell”) and Washington State University (“WSU”) entered into a Propagation Agreement (“the Agreement”) for Phytell to grow WSU’s patented “WA 38” apple trees for research, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed that the Agreement lacked the language and context permitting Phytell to option commercialization
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