Apple and Samsung have been locked in a legal battle over various design patents related to the iPhone since 2011. After nearly six years and a trip all the way to the Supreme Court and back, Apple and Samsung came to a settlement agreement this week and the case was dismissed. Apple had previously been [...]
Often multiple types of intellectual property cover a product. For example, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents may all cover different aspects of the same product. The overlapping coverage can result in multiple different claims of infringement resulting for one sale of a covered product. The question then becomes, “can the rights owner recover for each [...]
The U.S. Patent Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently reversed an Examiner’s obviousness rejections in part because the Examiner improperly ignored a claim limitation. A common examination practice in the U.S. is for Examiners to treat one or more claim limitations as merely recitations of “intended use” that do not impact the patentability [...]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) issued an opinion this week that stands as a reminder to companies that locking up employee assignments of patents as early as possible is of true importance. In Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corp (Appeal No. 2016-2309 decided January 11, 2018) the [...]
In what is arguably a good turn of events for patent rights holders, in a recent decision the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) upheld the challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,144,182 (the ‘182 patent) owned by Biscotti, Inc. (Biscotti) against three separate IPR proceedings filed by Microsoft Corporation [...]
