Sentences with phrase «over patent cases»

In 1982, Congress created the Federal Circuit and gave it jurisdiction over all patent cases.

Google's motion cites the relevant paragraph that establishes the Federal Circuit's US - wide jurisdiction over patent cases, 28 U.S.C. 1295 (a)(1):

Not exact matches

Her monogrammed, patent - leather briefcase — designer, of course — contains just the basic tools of the trade: smartphone, tablet and chic little clutch in case today's meeting spills over into cocktail hour.

There were 3,400 legal defenses mounted by small businesses in 2011 for patent cases, a 32 % increase over the prior year, according to research paper from 2012 by Boston University law professors James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.

In O'Connor's case, FindTheBest was notified that it is being sued for $ 50,000 over a patent for a «system and method for facilitating bilateral and multilateral decision - making.»

In October, the iPad maker lost an appeal against Samsung in a U.K. case over design patents.

Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) has lost a contract dispute over the use of Nokia patents in a case which could halt sales of its BlackBerry phones if it does not reach a deal to pay royalties to the Finnish company.

Over the past decade, nearly 40 percent of all patent cases in the U.S. have been filed in Marshall and Tyler, Texas, two places known for their plaintiff - friendly decisions and sky - high court costs.

I was also very lucky to arrange a week's work experience at a firm in London where I was given patent applications to review and infringement cases to look over.

Eli Lilly takes a win over generic challenger Actavis as London court rules in its favor in a patent case involving lung cancer drug Alimta.

Apple may have won quite a few back to back court battles over patent infringement cases, but has had a «minor» setback in China.

Also, given Samsung's recent spate of court battles with Apple over cases of infringement of the iPad's design patents, the Samsung design team will work doubly hard to ensure their next tablet is discussed more in tech circles and markets than various courts the world over.

For a re-cap, a court in the US had ordered Samsung to pay over $ 1 billion in the patent dispute case after the jury was convinced by Apple's claims of Samsung having copied the look and feel of popular Apple products, which includes the iPhone and iPad.

Samsung ended up losing the court case and was order to pay just over $ 1 Billion for a number of different patent infringements.

BlackBerry on Monday issued a press release announcing that the company has reached to an agreement with Typo over its keyboard patent infringement case.

Over the past few years the pharmaceutical marketplace has seen an increase in patent «re-litigation» (where a patentee is involved in a second case against another generic).

The Court noted that although enhanced damage awards are discretionary, they must be consistent with a pattern laid out in over 180 years of case law under the Patent Act and earlier statutes.

The way litigation in general works in the U.S. (such as the «American Rule» of no recovery of legal fees except under narrow circumstances) creates some opportunities for trolls, but with respect to the two concerns of this coalition of tech companies over the UPC, the German framework — which, again, would affect the whole of Europe based on the proposed rules of procedure — has terrible shortcomings in areas in which defendants in U.S. patent cases are actually in better shape.

On Friday, it didn't take long (after this blog was first to highlight the issue because I had been following the «Posner case» in detail over the years) before the appeals court ruling affirming Judge Posner's claim construction of the» 647 patent was discussed everywhere, and that was good.

It asked the court to tell the jury about that interpretation of the patent (which will now finally happen, tomorrow, as a result of the Federal Circuit decision), and it wanted to point to Apple's own 60 - cent - per - device damages claim over this patent in the Motorola case.

The case including the most lawyers from Chambers» list over the previous 2 terms was the patent case Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group Although Oil States has actually not gotten as much protection in the popular press as other cases like Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the possible effects of this judgment for numerous services developed big stakes for effective entities impacted by patent lawsuits.

But elsewhere in February, federal judges in two states slapped separate Medtronic divisions with huge attorneys» fees awards over their litigation tactics in patent cases — one in Massachusetts for $ 10 million - plus and another in Colorado expected to total several million dollars.

The case — AstraZeneca Canada Inc. et al. v. Apotex Inc. et al. — pitted two drug companies against each other over a patent.

A fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, he litigated well over 30 patent cases and tried 10 of those cases to verdict.

The escalating patent battle between shapewear makers Spanx and Yummie Tummie over body - slimming camisoles has sparked discussion about what it and similar cases may mean for the future of design patents in the fashion industry.

The BSA and the four professors argue that Judge Posner's ruling is perfectly consistent with eBay and explain why injunctions over FRAND - pledged standard - essential patents (SEPs) in most cases must be denied as such requests fail to satisfy the eBay criteria.

«Reining in Remedies in Patent Litigation: Three (Increasingly Immodest) Proposals» proposes that injunctions be unavailable over FRAND - pledged SEPs, advocates apportionment of the disgorgement of an infringer's profits that a design patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jPatent Litigation: Three (Increasingly Immodest) Proposals» proposes that injunctions be unavailable over FRAND - pledged SEPs, advocates apportionment of the disgorgement of an infringer's profits that a design patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jpatent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jpatent cases» it might be preferable to avoid juries.

The decision halts a 27 - year old expansion of venue in patent cases which began in 1990 when an appellate court expanded venue from a corporation's state of incorporation to any district where personal jurisdiction could be established over the alleged infringer.

While their music will live on forever, the 27 year old run of forum shopping in patent cases is likely over.

That question was answered by the Federal Court in Drexan Energy Systems Inc. v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents) 2014 FC 887, a case where four people worked together on the problem of pipes freezing without heat tracing products and produced a new type of heating cable they believed improved over existing products.

This was the sole remaining patent in the ITC case, and a U. S. import ban could have given Google some leverage over Apple.

The case was successfully settled shortly after Mr. Randall obtained an expert report from the author of several key prior art references and damaging testimony from the inventors concerning the patentability of the asserted patent over that prior art.

Over the years, this has included cases involving patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual property, oil and gas, environmental, antitrust, insurance coverage issues, and other contract and general business issues.

Partner responsible at trial for Lending Tree's infringement and validity case in its patent infringement lawsuit against Zillow, Adchemy and NexTag over a method for generating on - line mortgage leads.

The court's ruling will help to curtail lengthy litigation over jurisdictional issues in cases where patent counterclaims that form the basis for removal fail to present a justiciable Article III case or controversy.»

«Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant Tuesday to decide a key patent law case in a way that would, as one justice put it, establish «monopolies in this country beyond belief» over naturally occurring phenomena.

He says if someone were to file a case over not being able to patent a cannabis plant, though, that could drive change by forcing the court to rule on the issue.

I recently obtained a copy of the preliminary ruling on the photo gallery patent, and in a parallel matter the court allowed me, over Samsung's objections, to read Apple's sur - reply (from the infringement proceedings) in the infringement case over Samsung's smiley input method patent.

Rather, as the Supreme Court has explained in a series of decisions over the past decade, the rule in patent cases should be the same as in any other sort of litigation — in this case, the equitable doctrine of laches may not be used by accused infringers as a defense because there is a statute of limitations present to limit claims.

We have litigated over 250 patent cases in the past two years, with achievements that include outright wins on motions to dismiss, summary judgments, bench and jury trials.

Design patent remedies, injunctive relief, partial summary judgment over invalidated patents, the royalty base (a context in which I hope Apple will defeat Ericsson because it will discourage outsized royalty claims over standard - essential patents), and possibly some procedural issues concerning the interplay of infringement cases and FRAND contract cases in different venues.

That's clearly a much more critical view of (software) patents than merely supporting the philosophy of Justice Kennedy in the eBay case that injunctions over minor features would give patent holders undue leverage.

The case including the most lawyers from Chambers» list over the previous 2 terms was the patent case Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group Although Oil States has actually not gotten as much protection in the popular press as other cases like Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the possible effects of this judgment for numerous organisations produced big stakes for effective entities impacted by patent lawsuits.

The GAO turned to Lex Machina's extensive data set on patent cases to carry out the study and to illuminate the role that these NPEs have played over the last five years.

If a defendant in a patent case advocates a broad claim construction, the agenda is, as it is in this case, invalidation: for a broad patent it's easier to find prior art, or to argue obviousness over prior art.

Although only responsible for about a fifth of patent cases over the same period, NPEs, the report concluded, accounted for about half of the overall increase in defendants.

In that post I expressed hopes that Samsung would take the design patent issues in that case to the Supreme Court, and a filing made by Samsung with the Federal Circuit on Wednesday (a motion to stay execution of a mandate, i.e., to prevent Apple from physically collecting money before the case is really over) now states clearly that this will happen (this post continues below the document):

After the Federal Circuit affirmed (right before the 2014 trial) Judge Posner's claim construction, it was crystal clear to me that Apple no longer had a case over that patent.

And ever since the Supreme Court's Markman ruling in 1996 finding that claim construction — the interpretation of the words of a patent claim — is a task given over to the judge, it has been more important than ever for judges to get a solid working knowledge of the subject matter of a case.

Represented client in patent infringement case, recovering over $ 10 million for the United States» infringement of client's mine detection patent