2022

The University of Minnesota sued LSI for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,859,601 which addresses error rates related to recording data to computer storage devices. LSI petitioned for inter partes…

This case was remanded by the Supreme Court to the CAFC to consider whether assignor estoppel should preclude Minerva from challenging the validity of claim 1 of Hologic’s U.S. Patent…

During prosecution of U.S. Patent No. 8,280,901 (relating methods and systems related to the display of primary and secondary search results in response to search queries), the examiner rejected claims…

Thaler filed two patent applications listing his “Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Science” (DABUS) artificial intelligence (AI) software system as the sole inventor on both applications. The Patent…

Realtime sued Netflix for infringement in Delaware asserting six patents. Netflix filed seven petitions for inter partes review (IPR) of many of the asserted claims and moved to dismiss the…

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University owns, and CareDx is the exclusive licensee of U.S. Patents  8,703,652, 9,845,497, and  10,329,607, which share the same specification and…

Philips and Thales have been negotiating an agreed upon fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) license for standard essential patents (SEPs) that Thales has implemented according to European Telecommunications Standards Institute…

LG filed two petitions for inter partes review, each challenging a dependent claim of the U.S. Patent No. 6,844,990 relating to capturing and displaying digital panoramic images. LG’s obviousness arguments…

Coca-Cola purchased Parle (Exports), Limited of Bombay, India (who introduced Thums Up cola Limca lemon-lime soft drink in India in the 1970’s) and acquired Parle’s Indian registrations of the THUMS…

Static Media sued Leader for infringing design patent D771,400 for a stadium seat. The district court granted Leader’s motion for summary judgement of noninfringement.  This appeal concerns an alleged violation…