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Recent report states, specialist professional service consulting house Beaton research +consulting reveals results of survey. The report is going to make uncomfortable reading for executives and practitioners. Side by side it will bring comfort to partners and practitioners at privately held firms, many of whom believes that their independence present an opportunity to differentiate [...]
Nichia Corporation (“Nichia”) sued Everlight Americas, Inc., Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. and Zenaro Lighting (collectively, “Everlight”) for infringement of three of Nichia’s patents disclosing packaging designs and methods of manufacturing LED devices. Following a bench trial, the district court found that Everlight infringed all three patents and failed to prove the patents invalid. The [...]
On April 6, 2001, before the critical date, Helsinn entered into two agreements with MGI Pharma, Inc., including a Supply and Purchase Agreement. The agreements were announced via press release, which included redacted copies (price and specific dosage formulations were omitted). The Supply and Purchase Agreement included a provision conditioning performance on favorable clinical [...]
The Federal Circuit’s panel decision in Achates Reference Publ’g, Inc. v. Apple Inc. held that PTAB decisions to institute IPR are unreviewable even where the § 315(b) time bar may have been violated. The en banc question here is whether to overrule Achates. The USPTO’s interest in the case was clear from the large [...]
Until recently, IPRs have not played a significant role in International Trade Commission (“ITC”) Section 337 investigations. While the ITC is unlikely to stay a Section 337 investigation, pending IPRs will likely have an increasing impact at the ITC, especially when an IPR proceeding reaches an advanced stage before or during the pendency of [...]
Henry Bloget: “Move fast and break things is Facebook’s prime directive to developers. Unless you are breaking stuff,” Zuckerberg said, “you are not moving fast enough.” Eight years later, Zuckerberg Facebook mantra has taken an altogether different meaning. In a new book, Hollywood Producer and former USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, offers a dark vision [...]
Indeed, the Code of Conduct for Article III Judges of the United States has specific provisions that would seem to absolutely prohibit a judge from handling a case where a litigant is a former client. Some may argue, perhaps correctly, that at some point any conflict requiring disqualification that might have existed as the [...]
We have in the past covered government’s removal of restrictions on royalty payments by Indian companies to foreign collaborators in cases of technology transfers, usage of trademarks, brand names etc. and how this decision came to be misused by the foreign parent companies. As a first step towards undoing the abuse of this policy, an inter-ministerial group to [...]
Part of the paper’s including survey result from both lay individuals and IP professionals who answered the question. What is the purpose of Intellectual Property Right? The vast majority of IP Professional indicated the incentive justification of IP right. The potential for strong right rights sets out a carrot that encourages innovation. Law individual, [...]
The federal Circuit reversed the District Court’s jury instruction that the term “portable” and “mobile” should be given their “plain and ordinary meaning”. During claim construction at District Court’s, Eon argued that “portable” and “mobile” did not need construction and that the terms could simply be given their plain and ordinary meaning. Silver Springs [...]
