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Unreliable Expert Testimony Shall Not Pass 

On May 21, 2025, the Federal Circuit en banc banished the notion that the reliability of an expert’s methodology under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 (“Rule 702”) is a question of weight, not admissibility. The en banc Court...more

Revving Up The Trade Dress Standard: Articulation First 

Cardinal Motors, Inc. v. H&H Sports Protection USA Inc., No. 23-cv-7586 (2d Cir. Feb. 6, 2025) - On February 6, 2025, the Second Circuit held that the “articulation requirement” for a trade dress complaint—a pleading...more

Maybe The Third Time Is The Charm After All.

Nokia of America Corp. v. Alexander Soto and Walter Soto, IPR2023-00680, IPR2023-00681, IPR2023-00682 (P.T.A.B. Dec. 3, 2024) - On December 3, 2024, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal, for a second time, granted Director Review...more

Standing in Limbo: What Platinum Optics v. Viavi Tells Us About IPR Appeals 

Platinum Optics Tech. Inc. v. Viavi Solutions Inc., 2024 WL 3836107 (Fed. Cir. 2024) - On August 24, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) dismissed an appeal for lack of standing after a...more

District Court Injects Six Errors into Four-Factor Preliminary Injunction Test 

Insulet Corp. v. EOFlow, Co. Ltd., 2024-1137 (Fed. Cir. June 17, 2024) - The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) recently reversed the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (“District...more

Isn’t It Obvious?  The Constitutional Origin of Patent Law’s Non-Obviousness Requirement

Patents are prohibited from claiming inventions that would have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art (“POSITA”). This non-obviousness requirement is an application of the Constitution’s limitations on...more

Challenging The Design Patent Obviousness Test: Debunking the Rationale for Low Rejection Rates 

LKQ Corporation, Keystone Automotive v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC - As an initial disclaimer, Irwin IP LLP is privileged to be lead counsel for LKQ Corporation and Keystone Automotive Industries, Inc....more

EVERYBODY VS. PROFITEERS

In Re: Go & Associates, LLC, No. 2022-1961 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 22, 2024) - In an opinion made precedential at the PTAB’s request, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) affirmed a PTAB determination that a...more

Mahindra’s Not-a-Jeep Finds Redemption in Redesign 

On remand from the Sixth Circuit, the Eastern District of Michigan (“District Court”) declined FCA US LLC’s (“Jeep”) motion to enjoin importation of rival automaker Mahindra’s post-2020 ROXOR utility terrain vehicle (“UTV”). ...more

SCOTUS Stills Courts’ Inner Art Critic

In a highly anticipated ruling, the Supreme Court found that the Andy Warhol Foundation (“AWF”)’s licensing of “Orange Prince” to Condé Nast was not “fair use” of a Lynn Goldsmith photograph that served as the basis for Andy...more

Sanctions for Attorney Misconduct at a Dep: Fact or Fiction?

James Corey Goode, et al v. Roger Richards Ramsaur, et al, (D. Col. 2023) - Few litigation events cause tempers to flare as surely as depositions, but only once in a blue moon, it seems, will a Court take action against an...more

Publishers Take a Hatchet to Free Digital Libraries

On March 24, 2023, the Southern District of New York held that the Internet Archive (“IA”)’s digitization and lending online of the Hatchette Book Group (“Publishers”)’s copyrighted physical books infringed Publishers’...more

Can You Sell a Patented Method? Perhaps… But Not Today

F45 Training Pty Ltd. v. Body Fit Training USA Inc., 2022 WL 17177621 (D. Del. Nov. 17, 2022) - On November 17, 2022, the District of Delaware adjudicated a perfect storm of international patent enforcement: a method claim...more

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