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Duty to Disclose Materiality

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Inventor’s Failure to Provide Material Information to the USPTO Results in an Unenforceable Patent

On August 20, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (court) found inequitable conduct when Applicant, Lindis Biotech, GMBH (Lindis), relied on data from hastily performed experiments to obtain a patent...more

King & Spalding

District Court Grants Summary Judgment to Ford in Case Involving Allegedly Defective Sunroofs, Holding that the Low Incident Rate...

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On February 11, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington granted Ford’s motion for summary judgment on the plaintiff’s fraud and consumer protection claims, concluding that the plaintiff had not...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

USPTO Again Proposes To Revise Duty Of Disclosure In View Of Therasense

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More than five years after the Federal Circuit’s en banc decision in Therasense and its first proposed rulemaking under that decision, the USPTO has issued a new proposed rulemaking to adapt its duty of disclosure rule (37...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Insights Conversations: How Government Health Care Investigations May Be Shifting

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has long had the advantage when investigating False Claims Act (FCA) cases against health care companies. However, recent changes in the courts, including a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court...more

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