On May 9, 2024, the Supreme Court in Warner Chappell, Music Inc. v. Nealy settled a longstanding circuit split and ruled 6-3 that the Copyright Act entitles a copyright owner to recover damages for any timely claim, no matter...more
7/16/2024
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Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Copyright Ownership ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Music ,
Music Industry ,
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Sound Recording Copyrights ,
The Copyright Act ,
Warner Chappell Music v Nealy
In Medytox, Inc. v. Galderma S.A, the Federal Circuit affirmed a Final Written Decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) that found Medytox’s proposed substitute claims invalid and denied Medytox’s motion to...more
Today the Federal Circuit affirmed the December 27, 2022 judgement issued by Judge Stanley R. Chesler of the District of New Jersey in favor of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, protecting Takeda’s patented Vyvanse® product from...more
On December 27, 2022, Haug Partners LLP and Gibbons PC obtained a key victory as to all counts for its client, plaintiffs Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc., defeating a generic challenge...more
The doctrine of issue preclusion, or collateral estoppel, prevents a party who unsuccessfully litigated an issue to a final decision in one proceeding from relitigating the same issue in future proceedings. In the patent...more
Several challenges have been made recently to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“PTAB’s or Board’s”) controversial practice of denying inter partes review (IPR) petitions based on the status of parallel infringement...more
2/18/2022
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America Invents Act ,
Ex Partes Reexamination ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Post-Grant Review ,
USPTO
On December 8, 2021, the Federal Circuit in AztraZeneca AB v. Mylan Pharms. Inc. held that the claim construction of a percentage term should “‘most naturally align[] with the patent’s description of the invention,’ as...more