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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 06:55:32+00:00

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an April 8 cross-appellant brief, a patent owner asserts that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board lacks the statutory authority to declare patent claims indefinite in an inter partes review (IPR) (Samsung Electronics America Inc. v. Prisua Engineering Corp., Nos. 19-1169, -1260, Fed. Cir.).
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In an April 9 petition for inter partes review (IPR), Micron Technology Inc. maintains that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board should cancel 14 claims of a patented storage device with partitions on grounds of obviousness (Micron Technology Inc. v. SecureWave Storage Solutions Inc., No. IPR2019-00932, PTAB).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a March 25 appellee brief, Realtime Data LLC maintains that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board correctly rejected assertions by several inter partes review (IPR) petitioners that various claims of two data compression patents are obvious (Veritas Technology LLC, et al. v. Realtime Data LLC, Nos. 2018-1366, -2323, Fed. Cir.).
SAN FRANCISCO — In an April 6 holding, a California federal judge agreed with infringement defendants LG Electronics USA Inc., LG Electronics Inc. and LG Electronics MobileComm USA Inc. (LG, collectively) that an underlying patent directed to Bluetooth technology fails to recite patent-eligible subject matter (Uniloc USA Inc., et al. v. LG Electronics USA Inc., et al., No. 18-6738, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 59353).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A panel of the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 8 awarded a defendant a new trial on the questions of indirect patent infringement, damages, willfulness, enhanced damages for willfulness and a patent owner’s entitlement to attorney fees (Omega Patents LLC v. CalAmp Corp., No. 18-1309, Fed. Cir.).
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Citing the “intentionally identical” nature of its April 4 petition for inter partes review (IPR) with that of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Mobility LLC also on April 4 requested joinder “to ensure that the instituted trial is completed” if Samsung settles with a patent owner (PO) (Motorola Mobility LLC v. Immersion Corporation, No. IPR2019-00921, PTAB).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a per curiam judgment issued pursuant to Rule 36 of the Federal Circuit Rules, Fed. Cir. R. 36, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 5 upheld cancellation by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of various claims of two patents directed to diesel engine emissions-reducing automotive catalysts (BASF Corp. v. Johnson Matthey Inc., Nos. 2018-1908, -1911, Fed. Cir.).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A patent dispute over two competing looms for making bracelets and other linked articles was argued April 2 before the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Choon’s Design LLC v. IdeaVillage Products Corp., No. 18-1934, Fed. Cir.).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A New Jersey federal judge did not err in confirming that two patents directed to the treatment of polyneuropathic pain are valid but not infringed by the label of two proposed generic drugs, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled March 28 (Grünenthal GmbH, et al. v. Alkem Laboratories Limited, et al., Nos. 2017-1153, -2048, -2049, -2050, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 9187).

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