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IBM's US Patent Budget is Estimated around $280M Annually
This week, we are going to estimate the IP spending by the largest client of the patent office, IBM and see which firms benefit from this massive annual spending besides the patent...
Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases
CASE OF THE WEEK TecSec, Inc. v. Adobe, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2019-2192, -2258 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 23, 2020) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit issued a wide-ranging opinion...
In the last few weeks, we have written about patent prosecution spending in the US using our revenue and cost estimation models. First, we estimated the size of the... Read More »
CASE OF THE WEEK
TecSec, Inc. v. Adobe, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2019-2192, -2258 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 23, 2020)
In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit issued a... Read More »
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The U.S. Court of Appeals in the Second Circuit found in favor of Costco in the latest chapter of an over seven-year legal battle between Tiffany and Co... Read More »
Agency to Consider Further Public Comment
Over the past few months, Congress has been asked to investigate the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s (PTAB)... Read More »
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Update: Thanks to one of our readers who discovered an error in our ITC numbers for Q3. We have already updated the article with the correct data.
The third... Read More »
For the past two years, businesses have been scrambling to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)—the first comprehensive data... Read More »
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Immunex Corp. v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC, Appeal Nos. 2019-1749, -1777 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 13, 2020)
In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit ... Read More »
ST. JUDE MEDICAL, LLC v. SNYDERS HEART VALVE LLC
Before Newman, O’Malley, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board... Read More »
MMUNEX CORPORATION v. SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC
Before Prost, Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: Expiration of a... Read More »
WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC., v. SASSO
Before Newman, Schall, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana... Read More »
On October 12, 2020, the California Attorney General published a Third Set of Modified Proposed Regulations (“Modified Regulations”) even though the final ... Read More »
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AntennaSys, Inc. v. AQYR Techs., Inc., Appeal No. 2019-2244 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 7, 2020)
In the only precedential opinion issued by the Federal... Read More »
By now, other commentators have posted on this Fed. Cir. decision (Appeal no. 2019 -1133, Sept. 28, 2020)—and found it to be a routine reversal of a district... Read More »
ANTENNASYS, INC. v. AQYR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Before, O’Malley, Bryson, and Reyna. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire... Read More »
On September 25, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the California Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”), about which we reported here. Governor... Read More »
Update: After publishing this article on October 7, 2020, several law firms reached out to confirm their actual patent prosecution revenue which helped us discover a... Read More »
UPDATE: On September 25, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the California Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”). Click here for an... Read More »
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GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Appeal No. 2018-1976, -2023 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 2, 2020)
Our Case of the Week focuses on... Read More »
GLAXOSMITHKLINE LLC v. TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC. [OPINION] – PRECEDENTIAL
Before Prost, Newman, and Moore. Appeal from the U.S. District Court... Read More »
Joinder Estoppel Narrower Than Original Petition Estoppel
Court’s have struggled with the meaning of the “reasonably could have raised” aspect... Read More »
