IBM Files Patent For Proof-Of-Work Protocol Tailored To IoT Networks
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Merck Loses Bid to Collect Patent Infringement Damages from Gilead
Merck Loses Bid to Collect Patent Infringement Damages from Gilead Insurance Journal Fed. Circ. Says Merck Atty’s Lies Doomed $200M Patent Win Law360 REFILE-US court upholds dismissal of $200 million Merck verdict against Gilead Reuters Full coverage
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Serono Fights Biogen’s Retrial Bid Over Nixed MS Drug Patent
Serono Fights Biogen’s Retrial Bid Over Nixed MS Drug Patent Law360 Full coverage
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Serono Fights Biogen’s Retrial Bid Over Nixed MS Drug Patent
Law360 (April 26, 2018, 7:46 PM EDT) — A New Jersey federal jury rightly found that a Biogen MA Inc. patent covering its multiple sclerosis treatment Avonex was invalid, because while the patent covered a new process, the treatment was decades old, EMD Serono Inc. told the court Wednesday.
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Overcoming Early Alice Rejections in Litigation
… invention and those found patent-eligible in Enfish, Thales Visionix Inc., Visual Memory and Finjan. These few cases are overshadowed by well over a hundred cases that upheld invalidation based on Alice. It is clear that the area of the law on software and business method patents is still evolving... Continue reading
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Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of IPRs
Rumors of the PTAB’s demise were greatly exaggerated, it turns out. In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court held on Tuesday that Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) violate neither Article III nor the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution. Finding that the “grant of a patent is a matter involving public rights”... Continue reading
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Fed. Circ. Affirms Verdict Clearing Citrix In Patent Row
Law360 (April 26, 2018, 4:30 PM EDT) — The Federal Circuit said Thursday that 01 Communique Laboratory can’t get a new trial after an Ohio jury cleared Citrix Systems of claims its software infringes Communique’s remote access computer patent, rejecting Communique’s arguments that Citrix tricked …
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Supreme Court Upholds IPR Patent Challenges
Whether patent rights are private property rights; Whether history requires that patent validity must be determined by a court of law; Whether the fact that an IPR “looks like” adversarial litigation indicates adjudication is improper outside of an Article III court. Public vs. Private Rights. The Court relied …
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China Focus: Chinese courts get tough on IP copycats
In a series of typical IPR cases the Beijing court announced last week, two tech companies violating a software patent were required to compensate 3 million yuan, higher than the 1 million compensation cap provided by China’s patent law. The court passed its judgement based on the fact that the... Continue reading
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Canada’s new IP strategy wisely tackles abuse of patents and trademarks
With proposed reforms to all of Canada’s main IP statutes, the government is taking the lead in combating the dark side of intellectual property protection. Since abuse of intellectual property rights may inhibit companies from innovating or discourage Canadians from taking advantage of the digital market …