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VECTURA LIMITED v. GLAXOSMITHKLINE LLC Before Prost, Bryson, and Wallach.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware... Read More »

Online Form Will Simplify Request Procedure To date, in order to submit an amicus brief in a PTAB case selected for Precedential Opinion Panel (POP)... Read More »

SIPCO, LLC v. EMERSON ELECTRIC CO. Before O’Malley, Reyna, and Chen. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The Board’s... Read More »

While most 2020 media election coverage focused on the races for President and control of Congress, privacy also had its day at the ballot box. This blog has... Read More »

CASE OF THE WEEK C.R. Bard Inc. v. AngioDynamics, Inc., Appeal No. 2019-1756, -1934 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 10, 2020) Our Case of the Week is one of two cases decided ... Read More »

IN RE: GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC Before Taranto, Chen, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Claim construction arguments... Read More »

RPX Data Disputes Bias Allegations As I explained a few months back,  a due process challenge is pending at the CAFC that challenges the PTAB’s fee... Read More »

Following the November 3, 2020 general elections, Californians voted Proposition 24 into law, which will implement the California Privacy Rights Act... Read More »

C R BARD INC. v. ANGIODYNAMICS, INC. Before Reyna, Schall, and Stoll.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware... Read More »

Trademark generates approximately 10 percent of the USPTO annual revenue or about $350M. Compared to patents, this is much smaller, but our data shows that more than... Read More »

DONNER TECHNOLOGY, LLC v. PRO STAGE GEAR, LLC Before Prost, Dyk, and Hughes.  Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: A determination as... Read More »

CASE OF THE WEEK Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America LLC v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., Appeal No. 2019-2402 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 5, 2020) In our Case of the... Read More »

New York state issued a new mandate requiring that all travelers test negative for the COVID-19 virus both before and after coming to the state. The mandate allows... Read More »

VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS v. MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS Before Newman, O’Malley, and Taranto.  Appeal from the District Court of New Jersey Summary: Venue ... Read More »

CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. v. UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING RESEARCH Before Newman, Lourie, and Schall. Appeal from Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Intrinsic... Read More »

An amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) was signed in September 2020. The CCPA regulates how large companies (1) treat their... Read More »

CAFC Side Steps 314(a) Controversy on Procedural Grounds As detailed back in September, there were separate attacks launched against the PTAB’s practice of... Read More »

CASE OF THE WEEK In re: Nitro Fluids L.L.C., Appeal No. 2020-142 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 28, 2020) In the Court’s only precedential patent opinion this week... Read More »

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 »