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Scott Graham focuses on intellectual property and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He writes ALM's Skilled in the Art IP briefing. Contact him at sgraham@alm.com.
June 18, 2018
The moves boost Goodwin's ITC practice, and come a few weeks after Greenberg hired a new leader to head its ITC group.
June 18, 2018
A team led by partner Jason Sheasby accused the electronics giant of scoffing at a superstar inventor, then profiting from his semiconductor breakthrough.
June 15, 2018
The six people indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday have been involved in proceedings at the International Trade Commission and California state court, but neither ended in a finding of trade secret theft.
June 13, 2018
Chief Judge David Ruschke alleges he was laid off from Medtronic's in-house department for pretextual reasons in 2015.
June 13, 2018
Paul Hastings partner Yar Chaikovsky has taken aim at three patents BlackBerry is asserting against both Facebook and Snap, plus three more BlackBerry is asserting against Snap only.
June 11, 2018
The social media giant lambastes BlackBerry's patents as "ancient concepts" applied on generic computers.
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June 11, 2018
The DOJ told the Federal Circuit on Friday that the ITC must butt out of import disputes involving the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. An ITC lawyer tried to strike a compromise.
June 08, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court's SAS ruling ruling didn't address what happens to pending appeals from PTAB judgements that are now not considered complete.
June 07, 2018
The Federal Circuit found that Supreme Court's SAS Institute decision is not an obstacle to it taking up IPRs that the PTAB only partially ruled on—at least if neither party objects.
June 06, 2018
During Wednesday's appellate showdown with rival Arista Networks, the networking giant repeatedly invoked the court's controversial copyrightability case.
June 05, 2018
The TWiT Netcasting Network accused Twitter of breaking a promise to stay out of audio and video and of unfairly retaining its former counsel. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley disagreed on both counts.
June 05, 2018
Two judges hinted strongly that Allergan's bid to "rent" the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe's sovereign immunity will fail.
June 03, 2018
He's the second high-profile patent litigator to join Orrick in the last month.
June 01, 2018
Top advocates will be arguing at the appeals court next week in hot IP cases involving copyright protections for software and claims of tribal immunity in PTO proceedings.
May 31, 2018
Only one judge dissented from denial of en banc review in Berkheimer v. HP, though two others called on Congress or the Supreme Court to intervene.
May 30, 2018
The company wants the full Federal Circuit to review two rulings: one in 2014 holding Java APIs copyrightable, and another this year throwing out a fair use jury verdict.
May 30, 2018
An appeal by Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears could determine whether legal fees from PTO proceedings are recoverable in "exceptional" patent cases.
May 29, 2018
At least one judge wants the full court to reconsider its precedents on Article III standing for animals.
May 28, 2018
A Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner team convinced the en banc Federal Circuit that patent owners deserve a better shot to amend claims during adversary proceedings at the Patent Office.
May 24, 2018
A San Jose jury has awarded Apple Inc. $538 million in its latest retrial with Samsung over infringing smartphones.
May 23, 2018
Justice Anthony Kennedy predicted the difficulty jurors would have applying the Supreme Court's "article of manufacture" test.
May 23, 2018
U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of California ruled that Cisco's copyright suit combined with GC Mark Chandler's blog posts were enough to get by summary judgment.
May 21, 2018
Twenty-five year Weil Gotshal veteran (and former Orrick associate) Jared Bobrow joins Tuesday as co-lead of Orrick's global IP practice.
May 18, 2018
After a catchy opening, the IP suit over North Coast Brewing's Brother Thelonious ale seems to be falling out of tune.
May 16, 2018
Appellate court rules that patent owners have the burden of establishing proper venue, and that defendants can't necessarily be sued anywhere within their state of incorporation.
May 16, 2018
Two more rulings narrow the venue options for patent plaintiffs and drugmaker Gilead fends off an attack on its HIV medication.
May 15, 2018
Apple and Samsung are back for more. Lawyers for the two tech giants gave their opening arguments on Tuesday in San Jose.
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May 15, 2018
The founders of MelRok have turned to Knobbe Martens to protect their plans for smoothing out the bumps in solar energy generation.
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May 11, 2018
Heninger Garrison Davis serves up a challenge to AIA proceedings that Justice Clarence Thomas refused to rule out.
May 11, 2018
An Alabama law firm is seeking damages for every patent owner who's had one or more claims invalidated during America Invents Act proceedings. Meanwhile, Merck & Co. won't fight a $14 million fee award, and who'll play the lawyers if there's a movie about the famous monkey selfie case?
May 09, 2018
The legal feud started after PokerStars raised concerns Gordan Vayo was not in Canada when he won an online tournament.
May 04, 2018
The judges are trying to figure out how to handle appeals of PTAB decisions where the board instituted proceedings on a subset of inter partes review claims, instead of all of them as required by recent Supreme Court guidance.
May 03, 2018
A surge in 2017 Hatch-Waxman filings runs counter to the overall downtrend in patent litigation.
May 01, 2018
The PTAB reads the U.S. Supreme Court's SAS decision as requiring it to review not only all claims raised in an IPR petition when instituting proceedings, but also each asserted ground of unpatentability.
May 01, 2018
She brings experience and connections from the busy District of Delaware and the Federal Circuit.
May 01, 2018
The tech-focused trial boutique opens an office, adding Michael Proctor from Boies Schiller
April 30, 2018
Initial concerns that gene editing technology might not work on humans are substantial evidence supporting subsequent Broad Institute patents, judges suggest Monday.
April 30, 2018
Some 9,000 misdemeanor arrestees were set free, while U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal's April 2017 injunction added further momentum to national money-bail reform efforts.
April 27, 2018
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued guidance Thursday on how it will handle inter partes review proceedings that began under rules that have now been declared out of bounds.
April 25, 2018
The Federal Circuit backed U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman's finding that Merck's business and litigation misconduct justified unwinding the verdict.
April 25, 2018
After Tuesday's ruling in SAS Institute v. Iancu, petitioners face a higher risk of getting a final written decisions finding challenged patent claims valid, leaving them estopped from fighting in district court.
April 24, 2018
While many U.S. Supreme Court watchers were focused on the Oil States decision, the bigger impact on inter partes review may come from Tuesday's SAS Institute ruling.
April 24, 2018
But the justices suggest procedure might not cover patents issued before 2011 passage of America Invents Act.
April 23, 2018
Ninth Circuit Judges Carlos Bea and N. Randy Smith said an en banc panel of the court ought to reconsider whether animals ever have standing to bring claims.
April 20, 2018
The Patent and Trademark Office proposed new guidance for its examiners on patent eligibility, but not everyone believes it's a good thing.
April 19, 2018
The leader of plaintiff NetFuel Inc. describes the company as an AI pioneer in networking space.
April 17, 2018
Federal Circuit Judge Raymond Chen appeared pleased that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will find ways to simplify guidance for patent examiners.
April 16, 2018
U.S. District Judge William Orrick III granted Samsung's anti-suit injunction until he can resolve parallel claims over standard-essential patents.
April 16, 2018
Despite possibility of "chaos," presumption against extraterritorial application may give way to simple proximate cause test, justices suggest.
April 13, 2018
Lawyers for patent foes have shifted position since a hearing last August. Plus, is the dreaded T-word defamatory?
April 13, 2018
The court declined to dismiss the case, saying it's "wary of abetting ‘strategic behavior’ on the part of institutional litigants."
April 12, 2018
It's the second nine-figure verdict obtained by the company and its Caldwell Cassady & Curry lawyers in the last year. But Apple says the PTAB has already invalidated all of the patents.
April 11, 2018
In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Andrei Iancu also promised wide-ranging review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board operations and standards.
April 10, 2018
Celebrity Chef Chloe Coscarelli is embroiled in an IP fight over her "by Chloe" chain with ESquared Hospitality, which expelled her from the partnership.
April 06, 2018
Up to $115,000 according to a signing bonus being offered by Fish & Richardson to attract new legal recruits.
April 03, 2018
Amazon's success invalidating voice recognition patents isn't an open-and-shut win. Here's why.
April 02, 2018
IP lawyers say his copyright and trademark claims over barbershop talk videos aren't championship caliber.
March 30, 2018
There have been several Supreme Court decisions shaping the law of patent eligibility. Counsel in the Berkheimer patent eligibility case think they've unearthed one more. Plus, is the Patent Trial and Appeal Board poised to embrace a new claim construction standard?
March 28, 2018
The D.C.-based appellate court on Wednesday stopped a PTAB proceeding in which the board has declined to recognize the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe's sovereign immunity.
March 27, 2018
Will there be a third trial in Oracle v. Google? Or a Supreme Court showdown? And what's the Federal Circuit doing in the middle of a copyright case, anyway?
March 27, 2018
Google's unlicensed use of Java APIs in smartphones was not transformative, judges rule.
March 26, 2018
The California Court of Appeal has created some First Amendment breathing room for the creators of docudramas. It's coming at the expense of legendary actor Olivia De Havilland.
March 23, 2018
Greetings and welcome to Skilled in the Art. I'm Law.com IP reporter Scott Graham, and I am ready for the Supreme Court to get Oil States over with. In…
March 21, 2018
In dissent, Judge Jacqueline Nguyen warned the decision amounts to copyrighting a musical style and will permit "entire genres of music to be held hostage to infringement suits."
March 16, 2018
The en banc Federal Circuit considers whether the U.S. PTO should be allowed to collect attorney fees in Section 145 proceedings. Plus, the Ninth Circuit hears the copyright appeal over Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and who's on the move in patent circles.
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March 15, 2018
Backed by Susman Godfrey, automated appraisal company HouseCanary wins a Texas tussle with Quicken Loans affiliate.
March 14, 2018
In a blistering complaint, Blink Health and its lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher accuse two former executives of misappropriating source code, marketing plans and even unused company slogans.
March 13, 2018
Patent officials unveiled the new patent cover Sunday at SXSW in Austin. It's only the third cover in the agency's history.
March 09, 2018
Moving beyond the denial, anger and bargaining, what would a jury trial on patent eligibility look like?
March 07, 2018
BlackBerry Ltd., which no longer makes its own mobile phones, still holds a trove of mobile technology patents, and on Tuesday it unleashed them against the CrackBerry of the current decade: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
March 07, 2018
San Diego law professor Orly Lobel talks about the rule breakers who dominate business, law and sometimes even the judiciary.
March 07, 2018
San Diego law professor Orly Lobel talks about the rule breakers who dominate business, law and sometimes even the judiciary.
March 06, 2018
IBM's lawsuit against its former diversity officer set off debate over whether diversity hiring efforts can be considered trade secrets. So, which company came out ahead?
March 02, 2018
What a win for Fox News in the Second Circuit means for fair use—and Google. Plus, lateral moves and a look at next week's Federal Circuit calendar.
February 27, 2018
Rob Greenspoon played a key role in getting the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of IPRs. Now he's advancing a new attack.
February 26, 2018
Jamie Underwood is the second addition to Latham's ITC practice in the last six months.
February 23, 2018
The decision ends—for now—a controversy that erupted last summer when Allergan paid the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe to assume its Restasis patents in a creative legal strategy to fend off challengers.
February 23, 2018
Every big IP practice aspires to handle competitor cases. We checked in with the lawyers who lead the pack.
February 20, 2018
History seems to be repeating between Gilead Sciences and Merck & Co. Plus, a Valentine's Day rejection for Playboy in copyright fight.
February 16, 2018
If the Federal Circuit's Berkheimer decision on Section 101 procedure goes en banc, things are going to get interesting.
February 13, 2018
Diversity hiring strategies have never been more important, particularly for technology companies. But are they trade secrets? That's the premise of IBM's suit to block Microsoft from hiring its chief diversity officer.
February 12, 2018
Finjan Inc. and Blue Coat Systems Inc. have called off their second patent infringement trial over cybersecurity technology. The parties had been…
February 12, 2018
Lawyers for Arista, led by Tensegrity's Matthew Powers, are the latest to attack assignor estoppel, the equitable doctrine that forbids an inventor who sells his or her patent from then turning around and attacking the patent's validity.
February 09, 2018
The Federal Circuit has just thrown a big wet blanket over the Section 101 party that accused infringers have been having since the Supreme Court's 'Alice' ruling on patent eligibility.
February 06, 2018
Andrei Iancu, the new unanimously confirmed director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, has drawn a warm welcome from groups representing patent owners and accused infringers. Plus, updates on WesternGeco, the Uber-Waymo trial and Merck's $200 million Federal Circuit appeal.
February 06, 2018
In an appellate showdown between Fish & Richardson's Juanita Brooks and MoloLamken's Jeffrey Lamken, a Federal Circuit panel seemed swayed by Merck's argument that one bad witness didn't taint the jury's verdict.
February 05, 2018
"He understands all sides of patent law because he's litigated all sides," Sen. Orrin Hatch said of Iancu, a longtime Irell & Manella partner.
February 02, 2018
Eight months into living as her true self, Fish & Richardson partner DJ Healey has felt welcomed by her firm, clients and even a few litigation opponents.
February 02, 2018
A big copyright decision puts internet service providers on notice. Plus, a major IP trial gets underway in San Francisco and a proud moment for Paul Hastings partner.
January 30, 2018
Apple isn't letting go of its misconduct claim against Voip-Pal.com any time soon. Plus, a surprise hire at L.A.'s Russ August & Kabat.
January 30, 2018
Mark Perry, a go-to lawyer for Apple in IP appeals, would lead the Federal Circuit fight over allegations of improper ex parte contact with Patent Trial and Appeal Board officials.
January 26, 2018
Notable wins for Ed Reines of Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Santa Monica's Kayvan Noroozi, and Peter Perkowski of L.A.'s Perkowski Legal sues singer and actress Jessica Simpson for infringing the copyright on photos of herself.
January 25, 2018
For the second time this month, the Federal Circuit has sided with patent owners on the issue of patent eligibility under Section 101. Russ August & Kabat partner Benjamin Wang had the winning argument for Core Wireless.
January 24, 2018
The Northern District of California's newest magistrate judge has serious patent chops. Plus, drugmaker Helsinn brings on Williams & Connolly in its fight with Teva Pharmaceuticals.
January 22, 2018
The law firm pulled off a patent coup for its defense contractor client in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
January 19, 2018
The U.S. Patent and Trademark has no plans to shut its doors. Plus, a prominent plaintiffs firm bets on IP and the fight over CRISPR just got more complicated.
January 17, 2018
Apple wants a fresh shot at invalidating Voip-Pal's internet calling patent based on letters the company's former CEO sent to administrative judges and other officials at the Patent and Trademark Office. But a lawyer for Bellevue, Washington-based Voip-Pal said the correspondence didn't violate any rules.
January 16, 2018
There's a new chapter in the clash between Apple and Voip-Pal.com over ex parte contacts with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; Judge Raymond Chen compares Google patent case to "Night of the Living Dead."
January 12, 2018
Plus, the Supreme Court takes up a case that could expand available patent damages, Darrell Issa retires, and advice for your next Federal Circuit argument.
January 12, 2018
In WesternGeco v. Ion Geophysical, the justices might carve a small exception into the usual presumption against extraterritorial damages—or open the spigot to global patent damages.
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