• Newegg wins $500000 in attorney’s fees in “baseless” Acacia patent case

    Newegg wins $500000 in attorney’s fees in “baseless” Acacia patent case  Reuters Full coverage

     
  • Property Law Essay

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  • Visakhapatnam: Law students hold model assembly on Intellectual Property Rights

    Visakhapatnam: Believing that innovation begins at home, the Society for Law and Technology (SOLT) of Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University is conducting a two-day ‘Model Assembly’ on Intellectual Property Rights Laws. The Intellectual Property Rights provides the formal framework for …

     
  • Feds Should Own Gilead Hep C Patent, Nonprofit Says

    Law360 (March 16, 2018, 7:44 PM EDT) — A patent covering Gilead Sciences Inc.’s blockbuster line of sofosbuvir-based hepatitis C drugs doesn’t disclose related government funding, meaning the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has the right to take ownership of the patent, a nonprofit …

     
  • Robins Kaplan Adds Ex-Kasowitz Benson IP Pro In Calif.

    Law360 (March 16, 2018, 7:05 PM EDT) — Robins Kaplan LLP has hired the former managing partner of Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP’s Silicon Valley office, a seasoned intellectual property attorney who represents clients in industries including high tech, pharmaceutical and telecommunications, the …

     
  • Improved User Interface Survives Section 101 Challenges

    In Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. v. LG Electronics, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that user interface claims are patent eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because they “recite a specific improvement over prior systems, resulting in an improved user interface for electronic devices.” Core Wireless Licensing …

     
  • STEUBEN FOODS, INC. v. NESTLE USA, INC.

    Before Dyk, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Summary: In an inter partes review proceeding, broadest reasonable interpretation of a claim term must encompass all embodiments unless there is a support for a narrower interpretation.

     
  • Disney Deal Gets Autodesk Out Of Animation Patent Suit

    Law360 (March 16, 2018, 5:30 PM EDT) — A California federal judge said Thursday that software giant Autodesk Inc. did not infringe designer Joseph Alter’s patent on technology for animating hair and fur by incorporating it into the company’s Maya animation program, finding Alter agreed not to sue …

     
  • Dueling Motions for Sanctions Filed in Legal Malpractice Lawsuit

    “The bottom line is he has no right to behave like that in a deposition,” Kelley said. The lawsuit, Richard Alan Haase v. Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Friend and Randall Sorrels, pending in the 80th District Court in Harris County, stems from an unsuccessful patent infringement and …

     
  • IP Hires: Mayer Brown, Goldberg Segalla, Orrick

    Law360 (March 16, 2018, 5:04 PM EDT) — In this week’s round of intellectual property lawyer moves, Mayer Brown scored a commercial litigation partner specializing in patent and insurance disputes, Goldberg Segalla nabbed Polsinelli’s former patent practice co-chair, and Orrick elevated its tech …