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LITIGATION Nintendo and Pok?mon File a Patent Lawsuit Nintendo and the Pok?mon Company on Wednesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the video game company that developed Palword, a game [...]

Defendant Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) filed a motion for summary judgment of no remedy, which Judge Pitman granted on August 15, 2024, resulting in final judgment on all claims in favor [...]

The Federal Circuit held that claims directed to digital data compression are not patent eligible. Realtime Data LLC v. Array Networks Inc., Case No. 2021-2251 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 2, 2023). [...]

With the rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, a large number of 'miners' use extremely large (and expensive) amounts of power to 'mint' new 'coins' for these cryptocurrencies. This 'minting' [...]

Topia Tech, Inc. v. Box Inc., et al., W-21-CV-01372-ADA, is a case brought by Topia alleging that Box infringes several patents related to sharing electronic files between multiple devices. After [...]

A recent decision from Judge Stark, now presiding at the Federal Circuit, endorses the use, by a patent owner's damages expert, of sales projections and a 'litigation risk multiplier' in [...]

In late March, Eastern District of Virginia Judge M. Hanna Lauck granted a Microsoft motion to transfer the case filed by ThroughPuter, Inc. there, a year ago nearly to the [...]

Isix IP LLC, identifying itself as a subsidiary of monetization firm Aequitas Technologies LLC, has filed suit against IBM ( 6:22-cv-00201), alleging infringing of a single patent that the plaintiff [...]

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 Realtime Adaptive Streaming v. Netflix, Inc., No. 21-1484 In 2017, Realtime sued Netflix for patent infringement in the District of Delaware ('Delaware suit'). After Netflix pursued [...]

LUBBOCK, Texas -- EDST, LLC, and its subsidiary, Quext IoT, LLC, a Texas-based technology company that offers leading-edge 'Smart Thermostat Hub' technology for the multifamily industry, filed a lawsuit against [...]

In an interesting recent case of first impression, Judge Albright in the Western District of Texas denied a motion for judgement on the pleadings filed by Defendants Google and YouTube [...]

A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and [...]

Until recently, private equity-backed NPE Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC (FISI) had squarely focused its USB charging campaign on device makers, hitting roughly 15 such companies over former BlackBerry patents [...]

A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit highlights the importance of describing any improvements to technology in the specification. In the case of Whitserve [...]

On March 24, 2021, U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly of the District of Delaware, granted a defendant's motion to dismiss claims for contributory and induced infringement and enhanced damages [...]

Recent Precedential Decisions Applying Fintiv When a company is sued for patent infringement, often one early strategic consideration is whether to counterattack the patent's validity at the Patent Trial and [...]

RPX Corporation v. Applications In Internet Time, LLC., IPR2015-01750, 1751, 1752 (October 2, 2020). Before: Boalick, Bonilla, Weidenfeller In a trio of related opinions, the PTAB terminated IPR petitions brought [...]

Litigators Amending Claims? Patent prosecution bars are prophylactic provisions typically included in district court protective orders when there is a risk that a recipient of confidential technical information may use [...]

WSOU Investments, LLC (d/b/a Brazos Licensing and Development) appears to be ending 2020 doing what it has been doing all year: filing multiple Western District of Texas suits against the [...]

In 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah dismissed Simio's lawsuit against FlexSim Software, finding that the asserted patent was ineligible under Section 101. Simio responded by [...]

On Thursday, December 17, 2020, the Board designated portions of two decisions applying the Fintiv factors as precedential: Sotera Wireless, Inc. v. Masimo Corp., IPR2020-01019, Paper 12 (Dec. 1, 2020) [...]

English courts may set the terms for global FRAND licences to portfolios of declared standard essential patents. On 26 August, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UKSC) gave judgment [...]

Mere Existence of JDG Found to be Enough It can be an uphill battle to secure additional discovery at the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) given the 'interests of [...]

In Application in Internet Time v. RPX Corp., Nos. 2017-1698, -1699, -1701 (Fed. Cir. July 9, 2018), the Federal Circuit decided that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board 'applied an [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]The Canadian Press The SnapChat social media platform is being sued in Canada by a Vancouver-based company that accuses the picture and video service of patent infringement. Investel Capital [...]