Published Only 33 patent cases filed at the UK High Court this year raises fear of post-Brexit drift of cases from the UK to the EU – 60 already filed at the Unified Patent Court (UPC) since June The UK now has almost 1,000 representatives registered with the EU’s...
Published The Federal Circuit, in a case of first impression, recently defined the proper scope of “comparison prior art” in evaluating infringement of a design patent. Columbia Sportswear N. Am., Inc. v. Seirus Innovative Accessories, Inc., 80 F.4th 1363 (Fed. Cir....
Published Mike Gruber, LL.M. IP (GWU) reports on decisions in two provisional injunction proceedings before the UPC’s Local Division Munich and shares strategic takeaways for enforcing patents across Europe. Three and a half months after opening its doors on June 1st,...
Published On September 20, 2023, IP stakeholders converged at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to speak on the hot-button issue of standard essential patents (SEPs). The USPTO, in collaboration with the International Trade Administration and the National...
Published The Enlarged Board has issued its decision in consolidated cases G 1/22 and G 2/22. It concluded that the EPO is competent to assess priority entitlement and that there is a rebuttable presumption that an applicant claiming priority in accordance with the...
Published It has been found that Sonos had improperly attempted to connect its 2006 patents for wireless, multi-room audio technology as a predate to Google’s devices. The $32.5 million case, brought before a California federal judge, has been thrown out with Sonos’...
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