Sentences with phrase «litigation by patent»

The report, which was required under the America Invents Act, makes a thorough review of the consequences of patent litigation by patent trolls (it prefers the term PME).

«This kind of a study is important because Congress is contemplating changing the rules for fee - shifting in patent cases in order to prevent frivolous litigation by patent trolls,» he said.

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These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

2014 is likely to mark a sea change for patent litigation, as both the Supreme Court and Congress actively figure out ways to rein in costly challenges brought by non-practicing entities, or trolls.

(A Dollar Shave spokesperson denies any patent infringement and adds, «We are not intimidated by Gillette's attempts to thwart competition with litigation.»)

Avid litigation settlement and associated legal fees - In the third quarter of fiscal 2017, we settled the patent litigation with Avid Technology, Inc. by entering into a settlement and patent portfolio cross-license agreement with Avid.

To deal with trolls» propensity to target small businesses, the administration wants new legislation that will «protect off - the - shelf use by consumers and businesses» from frivolous patent litigation.

While the goal of proposed legislation is to address abusive litigation, in the aggregate the bill has the potential to diminish the value of a patent by making it harder to enforce.

Nevertheless, across a significant number of studies using different methodologies and performed by different researchers, a consistent picture is emerging about the effects of patent litigation: it costs innovators money; many innovators and venture capitalists report that it significantly impacts their businesses; innovators respond by investing less in R&D and venture capitalists respond by investing less in startups.

Apple said after Tuesday's verdict it would appeal and that the outcome was another reason reform was needed in the patent system to curb litigation by companies that make money off patent royalties instead of products.

Smaller firms in particular face a thicket of litigation by competitors and «non-practising entities» — the polite term for patent trolls.

Despite operating at a loss, Google has retained the majority of Motorola's patents and gained a defensive move to fight patent litigation by its primary competitors.

«The marketplace for new ideas has been corrupted by software patents used as destructive weapons,» the story's authors wrote, noting that last year, for the first time, Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and intellectual property than on research and development, a striking fact that sharply illustrates how incentives have become skewed in the tech industry.

The U.S. health industry has been relatively slow to adopt biosimilars due to a combination of complex market access tactics employed by branded biologics manufacturers, on - going patent litigation, lack of interchangeability, and a general lack of awareness and acceptance of biosimilars.

The litigation is being carried forward by the Public Patent Foundation, headed by Daniel Ravicher, a patent attorney at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, and the American Civil Liberties Patent Foundation, headed by Daniel Ravicher, a patent attorney at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, and the American Civil Liberties patent attorney at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but amass patent portfolios for the sake of «enforcing» IP rights (2).

Shuhbha researched and drafted two reports for use by the agency in its internal study of patent litigation and the federal judiciary.

Chicago, IL About Blog Patent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued paPatent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent litigation, and recently issued patents.

Chicago, IL About Blog Patent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued paPatent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent litigation, and recently issued patents.

OptiGen, a New York State - based company and Paw Print Genetics, a Washington State - based company, have decided to settle patent litigation filed by OptiGen in August, 2013.

Chicago, IL About Blog Patent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued paPatent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent litigation, and recently issued patents.

Risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to, general industry conditions and competition; general economic factors, including interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations; the impact of pharmaceutical industry regulation and health care legislation in the United States and internationally; global trends toward health care cost containment; technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges inherent in new product development, including obtaining regulatory approval; Merck's ability to accurately predict future market conditions; manufacturing difficulties or delays; financial instability of international economies and sovereign risk; dependence on the effectiveness of Merck's patents and other protections for innovative products; and the exposure to litigation, including patent litigation, and / or regulatory actions.

Risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to, general industry conditions and competition; general economic factors, including interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations; the impact of pharmaceutical industry regulation and health care legislation in the United States and internationally; global trends toward health care cost containment; technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges inherent in new product development, including obtaining regulatory approval; the company's ability to accurately predict future market conditions; manufacturing difficulties or delays; financial instability of international economies and sovereign risk; dependence on the effectiveness of the company's patents and other protections for innovative products; and the exposure to litigation, including patent litigation, and / or regulatory actions.

Chicago, IL About Blog Patent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued paPatent Docs is a weblog authored by patent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent practitioners, which focuses on biotech / pharma patent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent law, including reports on changes in USPTO rules and procedures, recent court decisions, newly filed patent litigation, and recently issued papatent litigation, and recently issued patents.

My original statement did not talk about validity, my point in that statement was until the presumably valid patent is upheld by a court of law either through a challange defense or successful infringement litigation, the patent really is not worth the paper it is written on.

During his career, he dealt with a big number of different tasks in the patent field, ranging from patent drafting and prosecutions to FTO opinions and by parte expertise in patent litigations.

In addition to specializing in areas such as patent litigation and corporate - owned life insurance, the firm also practices in class actions, and other disputes potentially solved by contingent fee commercial litigation.

With 28 former Federal Circuit clerks in its ranks today, the leading patent litigation firm just increased its Federal Circuit clerk bonuses by nearly 30 percent, according to its press release.

«We are pleased and honored to again be recognized by Lex Machina as one of the top law firms hired by leading American companies for their patent litigation defense,» said Shannon Bloodworth, co-chair of Perkins Coie's Intellectual Property practice.

For example, when the Apple / Samsung global patent litigation disputes started a few years ago, some commentators attributed the parties» decision not to litigate in Canada to inter alia, our lengthy discovery process and our apparent reluctance to narrow the issues early on (for example by providing claim charts (for both validity and infringement) at a preliminary stage).

One of his recent and most significant successes highlighted by Law360 was his leading role in the firm's representation of Abbott Laboratories, which resulted in securing a record - breaking patent ruling in litigation over its best - selling drug, Humira ®.

The initially promised affordability of the «unitary patent» and Unified Patent Court (UPC) especially for small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs), which was repeated almost mantra - like throughout the EU legislative proceedings as one reason why the reform was of utmost importance, ultimately turned out to be pretty much the opposite, with the level of representation costs to be reimbursed by the losing to the winning party amounting to up to more than five times the sum which can currently be claimed in patent litigation proceedings before the German courts (for more details on the cost situation created by the reform, cf. the article «Unitary patent and court system — A poisoned gift for SMEs» patent» and Unified Patent Court (UPC) especially for small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs), which was repeated almost mantra - like throughout the EU legislative proceedings as one reason why the reform was of utmost importance, ultimately turned out to be pretty much the opposite, with the level of representation costs to be reimbursed by the losing to the winning party amounting to up to more than five times the sum which can currently be claimed in patent litigation proceedings before the German courts (for more details on the cost situation created by the reform, cf. the article «Unitary patent and court system — A poisoned gift for SMEs» Patent Court (UPC) especially for small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs), which was repeated almost mantra - like throughout the EU legislative proceedings as one reason why the reform was of utmost importance, ultimately turned out to be pretty much the opposite, with the level of representation costs to be reimbursed by the losing to the winning party amounting to up to more than five times the sum which can currently be claimed in patent litigation proceedings before the German courts (for more details on the cost situation created by the reform, cf. the article «Unitary patent and court system — A poisoned gift for SMEs» patent litigation proceedings before the German courts (for more details on the cost situation created by the reform, cf. the article «Unitary patent and court system — A poisoned gift for SMEs» patent and court system — A poisoned gift for SMEs» here).

A Wilmer Hale team, led by IP litigation superstar Bill Lee, did a really superb job defending Apple against Samsung's patents.

The analysis shows that patent litigation is dominated by male attorneys.

Also, you can keep costs down by just engaging a litigation consultant with patent experience to evaluate your presentation (along with any co-counsel you want included), or you can add evaluators like PhD psychologists and / or retired judges.

On November 9, Apple filed a reply declaration by a professor from Toronto, Karan Singh, who went to the offices of Quinn Emanuel, Samsung's law firm in this dispute, to look at the workaround code and while «Samsung failed to provide a full code tree or folder as it would typically be kept in Samsung's ordinary course of business» (and as Samsung apparently did earlier in this litigation), saw enough code to opine that «the modified code [he] reviewed demonstrates continuing infringement of the» 915 patent».

The plaintiff, Blackbird Technologies, a company formed by two former patent litigation partners at WilmerHale and Kirkland & Ellis, alleges that kCura and its partners are violating U.S. Patent No. 7,809,717, which Blackbird says it owns by assigpatent litigation partners at WilmerHale and Kirkland & Ellis, alleges that kCura and its partners are violating U.S. Patent No. 7,809,717, which Blackbird says it owns by assigPatent No. 7,809,717, which Blackbird says it owns by assignment.

Today, Google announced it has taken out a $ 12.5 B insurance policy against the threat of patent litigation by acquiring Motorola Mobility.

The May 2017 TC Heartland v. Kraft Food Group Brands decision by the Supreme Court has been referred to as major milestone in patent litigation.

[1] Nespresso compatible pods are offered by for example the Ethical Coffee Company (ECC) and its litigation in Germany: Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf 21 February 2013, Nestlé / Ethical Coffee Company (ECC), I - 2 U 72/12 and I - 2 U 73/12; and by Dualit in the UK: England and Wales High Court (Patents Court) 22 April 2013, Nestec SA & Ors v Dualit Ltd & Ors [2013] EWHC 923 (Pat)

As I explained in a previous post, «the decision on Apple's claims was very specific not only to the four patents at issue at that stage of the litigation but also to the course of events in that litigation (as I pointed out in my detailed analysis)», as evidenced by the fact that Apple has meanwhile won two preliminary injunctions against Samsung, while «Judge Posner's position on FRAND is universally - applicable, and it will be extremely influential, throughout and beyond the United States», to Google's (Motorola's) dismay.

That problem is that while the costs of litigation are real — not just money but also defensive medicine, intimidation of startups by patent trolls, intimidation of the media by billionaires — the exclusive focus on costs overlooks the crucial role of litigation in our democracy.

SEATTLE, Wash. (December 20, 2017)- Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that it was ranked as the Top Life Sciences Law Firm in Patent Litigation for Q3 2017 by Lake Whillans Litigation Finance in its Life Sciences Law Firm Index.

In the expanded panel's decision denying General Plastic's request for rehearing, the board announced that when exercising its discretion to institute, it will consider both the AIA's goal of providing an «effective and efficient alternative» to federal court litigation, but also «the potential for abuse of the review process by repeated attacks on patents.»

Some in Ontario, particularly in the area of municipal law, will recognize the seeds of this OPCA litigation strategy in the «Crown Land Patent» arguments being championed by the Ontario Landowner's Association, and even a few politicians at the Provincial Level.

The innovation process - or more precisely, the ideation process - often begins with a specific question, problem or hypothesis: «We can reduce cost single - plaintiff litigation matters by rethinking our client onboarding and service delivery processes», or «we are being priced out on patent prosecution work in the US due to boutiques and alternative providers».

Thanks to a Comparative Patent Remedies blog post by Professor Thomas Cotter, I have just become aware of an amicus curiae brief (full text available here) filed with the Federal Circui by 27 law professors in support of Samsung with respect to the design patents - related bulk of Apple's $ 929 million damages award in the first California Apple v. Samsung litigation.

With over 20 years of experience in all aspects of patent preparation, prosecution, opinion work, and litigation, Keats is regularly consulted by clients and colleagues to address complex matters in mechanical, electromechanical, biomedical, computer, medical device, design, and electrical arts.

Drawing on attorneys from across practice areas and offices, Weil has developed an impressive track record advising with respect to shareholder claims and demands for litigation, internal whistleblower complaints, class and collective actions brought by employees relating to pay, worker classification, and discrimination claims, product liability issues and recalls, privacy rights, intellectual property disputes (patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets), regulatory investigations commenced by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Justice, and state attorneys general, and major disputes with suppliers and competitors.

The Court seemed most concerned by the procedural impact of claim construction in PTAB trials, and the potential effect on district court litigation concerning the same patents.