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Implications of 'Amgen v. Sanofi' On the State of Enablement Law Image

Implications of 'Amgen v. Sanofi' On the State of Enablement Law

Bruce M. Wexler, Aaron P. Selikson, Ashley N. Mays-Williams & Susan S. Hwang

The decision appears to take steps to harmonize the prior cases that appropriately were guided by the Wands factors with the cases discussing the "full scope" of enablement that have engendered some confusion in the law.

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Equity In Broad and Flexible Fashion

Kelvin Han

Federal Circuit Wasn't Chicken to Grant Equitable Intervening Right in Poultry Processing Equipment Case A dispute between the two titans in the poultry processing equipment market led the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to construe the term "protection of investments" in 35 U.S.C. §252.

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A Unique Solution to COVID-19-Related Delays At the U.S. International Trade Commission Image

A Unique Solution to COVID-19-Related Delays At the U.S. International Trade Commission

Robert Angle & Brittanee Petrik

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ITC was forced to suspend in-person hearings and halt its fast-paced schedules while it explored existing technological resources and reliable and secure options available for video conferencing that would protect parties' confidential business information (CBI).

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Patent Litigation Growth In 2020 Points to Sustained Activity In 2021 Image

Patent Litigation Growth In 2020 Points to Sustained Activity In 2021

Rob Maier

Despite the recession — or partly as a result of it — 2020 was also a year of growth for patent litigation in the United States. This article provides a look back at patent litigation filing statistics in recent years across district courts in the United States, with an eye toward current trends that in all likelihood will continue deep into 2021.

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Jeffrey Ginsberg & Ryan J. Sheehan

Federal Circuit: Texas Court Abused Its Discretion By Delaying On Venue Transfer Motion While Proceeding With the Merits of the Case Federal Circuit: PTAB Violates the APA When It Sua Sponte Adopts a New Claim Construction to Support New Theory of Invalidity for First Time

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Howard Shire & Shaleen J. Patel

PTAB to Follow Nautilus Standard of Definiteness

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Exercising Restraint: Federal Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Declaratory Judgment Action Under Abstention Doctrine Image

Exercising Restraint: Federal Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Declaratory Judgment Action Under Abstention Doctrine

Rudy Kim & James Hancock

The Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a declaratory judgment action based on the "abstention doctrine," despite the declaratory judgment plaintiff's insistence that the underlying contract dispute required resolution of patent validity and claim scope that were within the federal courts' exclusive purview.

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USPTO Sets Precedent on Collective Patent Defense Groups with RPX Ruling Image

USPTO Sets Precedent on Collective Patent Defense Groups with RPX Ruling

Scott Graham

It took two years and a last-minute substitution of judges for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to rule that RPX Corp. was too close to a dues-paying member to bring a patent validity challenge.

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Joshua R. Stein & Jeff Ginsberg

Federal Circuit: Post-Employment Assignment Clause Void Under California Law Federal Circuit No New Trial for Improper "Pennies on the Dollar" Rhetoric

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Recently Introduced Bill Would Limit ITC 'Domestic Industry by Subpoena' Image

Recently Introduced Bill Would Limit ITC 'Domestic Industry by Subpoena'

Robert Maier

Patent infringement disputes in the United States are not only heard in district courts. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) also decides high-stakes intellectual property disputes — with the remedy for the IP rights holder not being damages, but rather an exclusion order that can block a competitor's importation of infringing articles into the U.S. That remedy can be incredibly powerful for companies engaged in stiff competition in the U.S. market.

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