• 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 …

     
  • legaladvice

    First off, I’m sorry if this is the wrong subreddit to ask this question, but I wasn’t sure where else to post this. I’m a recent…

     
  • South Carolina patent grants higher than the national trends

    By Doug Kim, attorney, Douglas Kim Law Firm LLC. From 2008 to 2017, patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office that have at least one inventor living in South Carolina outpaced the national trend. South Carolina had on average 9 percent more patents granted year over year, …

     
  • Patent research, writing, and application

    Help me perform patent research for similar devices and existing patents for an invention. Once I have an idea on the uniqueness of my device, I will like need help drafting a patent application and writing the patent description. This job was posted from a mobile device, so please pardon... Continue reading

     
  • Of the big Supreme Court patent cases the wait for a decision in Oil States is one of the longest

    Such has been the impact of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) on patent owning rights and litigation strategy, that for private practice lawyers, in-house IP counsel, other senior IP executives – and, of course, the administrative patent judges and senior staff of the USPTO – a ruling from... Continue reading

     
  • Apple Wants to Patent a Keyboard You’re Allowed to Spill Coffee On

    Still, they do reveal what the company is focusing on, like foldable phones (the subject of multiple patents in recent years), and even pizza boxes for its corporate cafeteria. Filing a lot of patents allows companies like Apple to claim the rights to intellectual property for technology the company is... Continue reading

     
  • In the News

    In the law firmsGreenberg Traurig LLP elevated Genevieve Dominguez, Matthew J. Levinstein, David S. Pritzker and Julia J. Singh to shareholder.Dominguez, a corporate practice member, represents companies and private equity firms in connection with various corporate transactions as well as …