May 2022

Arthrex sued Smith & Nephew (S&N) alleging infringement of U.S. Patent No. 9,179,907 relating to a surgical device for attaching soft tissue to bone without requiring the surgeon to tie…

Ethicon appeals a final written decision issued in two consolidated inter partes review proceedings where the Board concluded that the challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 9,844,379 (relating to a…

Kaufman is a co-inventor on and owns now-expired U.S. Patent No. 7,885,981 relating to methods for using a computer to automatically generate an end-user interface for working with the data…

Mitek sought a declaratory judgment that Mitek and its customers have not infringed, either directly or indirectly, any valid and enforceable claim of USAA’s U.S. Patent Nos. 8,699,779, 9,336,517, 8,977,571,…

Google appeals three inter partes review (“IPR”) Board decisions concluding that Google had not shown the challenged claims in U.S. Patent Nos. 6,851,115 and  7,069,560 (which relate to a software-based…

Bennett owns U.S. Patent No. 5,810,029 directed to an anti-icing device for a gas pressure regulator. Bennett sued Atlanta Gas but ultimately, that litigation was dismissed without prejudice for lack…

Sound View owns now-expired U.S. Patent No. 6,708,213, titled “Method for Streaming Multimedia Information over Public Networks.” Sound View alleges that Hulu infringed claim 16 of the ’213 patent, which…

Flex Logix challenged various claims of Konda’s U.S. Patent No. 8,269,523, titled “VLSI Layouts of Fully Connected Generalized Networks” in two inter partes reviews. For all challenged claims, Flex asserted…

Auris petitioned for inter partes review of certain claims of Intuitive’s U.S. Patent No. 6,522,906 directed to systems and methods for performing robotically-assisted surgery using a master control, asserting six…