• Int'l Bus. Machines Corp. v. Rakuten, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-13
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Ellis Moore, Bindu Ann George Palapura, Andrew L. Brown, Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP, Wilmington, DE; John M. Desmarais, Karim Z. Oussayef, Jonas R. McDavit, Jordon N. Malz, Brian D. Matty, Edward Geist, Jun Tong, Eliyahu Balsam, Amy I. Wann, William Vieth, William N. Yau, Benjamin Rodd, Michael Wueste, Lindsey E. Miller, Desmaris LLP, New York, NY; Michael Rhodes, Kyle Curry, Desmaris LLP, San Francisco, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Benjamin J. Schladweiler, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joshua L. Raskin, Allan A. Kassenoff, Julie P. Bookbinder, Jade Li-Yu Chen, Jonathan Presveli, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, NY; Maja Sherman, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Chicago, IL for defendants.

    Case Number: 21-461-GBW

    Court rejected claims of indefiniteness of patent terms where the specification and prosecution history demonstrated that the terms would be sufficient to inform a person of ordinary skill in the art of the scope of the invention or the means-plus-function limitation.

  • Novartis Pharm. Corp. v. HEC Pharm Co., Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Alexandra M. Joyce, Fish & Richardson P.C.; Jane M. Love, Ph.D., Robert Trenchard, Andrew P. Blythe, Christine L. Ranney, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Stamatios Stamoulis, Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC; Mieke K. Malmberg, Paul J. Skiermont, Sarah E. Spires, Steven J. Udick, Kevin P. Potere, Skiermont Derby LLP for defendant.

    Case Number: 20-133-GBW

    Court declined defendants' more limited proposed claim constructions that included negative limitations which had no basis in the intrinsic record.

  • Newron Pharm. S.p.A. v. Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-02
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory R. Booker, Nitika Gupta Fiorella, Elizabeth M. Flanagan, Sarah E. Jack, Fish & Richardson P.C. for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Carl D. Neff, Gurpreet Singh Walia, M.D., Esq., Gary Ji, Gurpreet S. Walia, FisherBroyles, LLP; Kenneth L. Dorsney, Cortlan S. Hitch, Morris James LLP; Timothy H. Kratz, George J. Barry III, Kratz & Barry LLP; Stamatios Stamoulis, Richard C. Weinblatt, Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC; Shashank Upadhye, Brent Batzer, Yixin Tang, Upadhye Tang LLP; Benjamin J. Schladweiler, Renee Mosley Delcollo, Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Dmitry V. Shelhoff, Ph.D., Edward D. Pergament, Kenneth S. Canfield, Julia S. Kim, Pergament & Cepeda LLP for defendants.

    Case Number: 21-843-GBW

    Court rejected defendants' assertion of indefiniteness of disputed terms in claim construction, where the intrinsic record and prosecution history of the patents-in-suit provided objective boundaries that would inform a person of ordinary skill in the art about the scope of the patent claims, so the court adopted plaintiffs' proposed constructions after defendants declined to offer competing instructions or present any evidence regarding what they believed a person of ordinary skill in the art would understand the disputed terms to me

  • BearBox LLC v. Lancium LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-03-21
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: E-Commerce | Electronics | Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew C. Mayo, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin T. Horton, John R. Labbe, Raymond R. Ricordati III, Chelsea M. Murray, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Chad. S.C. Stover, Mark C. Nelson, Darrick J. Hooker, Adam M. Kaufmann, Dana Amato Sarros, David M. Lisch, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 21-534-GBW

    Court declined to correct inventorship of patent where plaintiffs could not show that they had conceived of various claims in the patent and had not communicated other claims to defendants before defendants had independently conceived of those claims and reduced them to practice.

  • BearBox LLC v. Lancium LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew C. Mayo, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin T. Horton, John R. Labbe, Raymond R. Ricordati III, Chelsea M. Murray, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Chad S.C. Stover, Mark C. Nelson, Darrick J. Hooker, Adam M. Kaufmann, Dana Amato Sarros, David M. Lisch, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 21-534-GBW

    Conversion claim was preempted by federal patent law where relief on the claim would be predicated on resolution of the dispute over ownership of the technology disclosed in the patent-in-suit.

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  • Maugain v. FCA US LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-02-21
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly A. Green, Smith, Katzenstein, & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Russell D. Paul, Abigail J. Gertner, Amey J. Park, Natalie Lesser, Berger Montague PC, Philadelphia, PA; Tarek H. Zohdy, Cody R. Padgett, Laura Goolsby, Capstone Law APC, Los Angeles, CA; Steven Calarnusa, Geoff Stahl, Rachel Bentley, Gordon & Partners, P.A., Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Geoffrey Graber, Brian E. Johnson, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Patrick M. Brannigan, Jessica L. Reno, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Stephen A. D’Aunoy, Scott H. Morgan, Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis, MO for defendants

    Case Number: 22-116-GBW

    The court granted a motion to dismiss in part in a class action matter filed by vehicle owners against an engine manufacturer and distributor.

  • Pfizer Inc. v. Sinotherapeutics Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 21-1427-GBW

    Court declined to grant patent infringement defendant judgment on the pleadings based on prosecution history estoppel where the evidentiary record was not developed enough to determine whether plaintiff's amendments to its patents were related to patentability.

  • In re: Start Man Furniture LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Joyce, Joyce, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Rene S. Roupinian, Jack A. Raisner, Gail C. Lin, Raisner Roupinian LLP, New York, NY for appellants and cross-appellees.
    for defendant: Bradford J. Sandler, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, Wilmington, DE for cross-appellant and appellee.

    Case Number: 20-10553 (CTG)

    Court reversed in part Bankruptcy Court's decision holding that debtor employers were not required to provide notice under the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act prior to laying off workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Bd. of Regents, Univ. of Texas Sys. v. Boston Scientific Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-29
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Education | Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stamatios Stamoulis, Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC, Wilmington, DE; Michael W. Shore, Alfonso G. Chan, Chijioke E. Offor, Shore Chan DePumpo LLP, Dallas, TX; Brian D. Melton, John P. Lahad, Corey M. Lipschutz, Susman Godfrey LLP, Houston, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Chad Drown, Timothy E. Grimsrud, Katherine S., Razavi, Lauren J.F. Barta, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Minneapolis, MN; David J.F. Gross, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, East Palo Alto, CA; Christopher J. Burrell, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Washington, D.C.; Melissa A. Anyetei, James R. Ferguson, Michael J. Word, Ma yer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL for defendant.

    Case Number: 18-392-GBW

    The court issued a decision granting official definitions to the term "fiber" in a claim construction request.

  • Bearbox LLC v. Lancium LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-11-22
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew C. Mayo, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin T. Horton, John R. Labbe, Raymond R. Ricordati III, Chelsea M. Murray, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Chad S.C. Stover, Mark C. Nelson, Darrick J. Hooker, Adam M. Kaufmann, Dana Amato Sarros, David M. Lisch, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 21-534-GBW

    The court issued a ruling defining the claim terms of a patent consistent with the arguments made by defendant LLC.