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Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases: Mondis Tech. Ltd. v. LG Electronics Inc.

Mondis Tech. Ltd. v. LG Electronics Inc., Appeal Nos. 2023-2117, -2116 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 8, 2025) Our Case of the Week focuses on the written description requirement, and, in particular, how that requirement is considered...more

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Massachusetts Jury Sets New Record Under Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act With $452 Million Damages Award

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In December, a Massachusetts corporation won the largest jury verdict ever awarded under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). The award of $452 million is part of a recent trend of massive awards to trade secret...more

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Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending October 2024

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NexStep, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Nos. 2022-1815, -2005, -2113 (Fed. Cir. (D. Del.) Oct. 24, 2024). Opinion by Chen, joined by Taranto. Opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part by Reyna....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - September 2024 #2

Parkervision, Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc., Appeal Nos. 2022-1755, 2024-2221 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 6, 2024) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit weighed in again on a 13-year-old patent dispute concerning Qualcomm’s...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Importance of Reasonable Particularity in a Doctrine of Equivalents Argument

In VLSI Technology LLC v. Intel Corporation, No. 22-1906 (Fed. Cir. 2023), VLSI sued Intel for infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,523,373 (the “’373 patent”) and U.S. Patent No. 7,725,759 (the “’759 patent”). After a jury...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

Last year, in our inaugural issue of “The Year in Review,” we reported that since the landmark jury verdict in the IP litigation between Apple and Samsung in 2012, which awarded more than $1B to Apple for infringement of...more

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“MetaBirkins” are not workin’ - Hermès wins jury trial in NFT trademark infringement brawl

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Luxury goods titan Hermès has been handed a major victory in its pioneering lawsuit involving trademark infringement through non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”). A federal jury in Manhattan recently found that an artist’s NFT...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

NFTs Found to Infringe Hermès Trademark

In a case with clear implications for non-fungible token art-based projects, a federal jury in the case of Hermès International, et al. v. Mason Rothschild, 1:22-cv-00384 (SDNY), found in favor of fashion brand Hermès in its...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry

Last Week In The Federal Circuit (March 14-18): Federal Circuit Says No Catch For Claims of Co-Ownership

Last week’s big news was of course the official swearing in of Judge Stark. But there were plenty of other things happening at the Court. Below we provide our usual weekly statistics and a detailed discussion of our case of...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Dr. Martens Kicks Infringers to the Curb

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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently determined that the owner of the iconic Dr. Martens trade dress—a famous design that has been used for more than three decades—was entitled to a...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Tips For Banks As USAA Check Deposit Patent Dispute Grows

In January 2020, we wrote a Law360 guest article that highlighted some of the risks that followed Wells Fargo Bank NA's strategy in its patent dispute with the United Services Automobile Association over remote deposit check...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

By the Book: Unauthorized Material Doesn’t Forfeit Training Guide’s Copyright Protection

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a jury verdict in favor of a copyright owner in a lawsuit alleging infringement of the copyright in a home-services training manual, finding that the jury was correctly...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Three Point Shot - Summer 2020

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Welcome to Three Point Shot, a newsletter brought to you by the Sports Law Group at Proskauer. Three Point Shot brings you the latest in sports law-related news and provides you with links to related materials. In this issue,...more

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Caltech Ten-Figure Patent Verdict Showcases Impact of University Intellectual Property

A California jury recently ordered Apple, Inc. (“Apple”) and Broadcom, Ltd. (“Broadcom”) to pay the California Institute of Technology (“Caltech”) over $1.1 billion in damages for infringing several patents owned by Caltech....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

No Vicarious Liability Absent Financial Benefit, Even in Context of Contributory Infringement

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit examined issues of vicarious and contributory infringement—along with willfulness—in connection with a copyright infringement case involving a real estate website that featured...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

District Court of Delaware awards an ongoing royalty that applies not just to adjudicated products but also to non-adjudicated...

Recently, in Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 v. TCL Commc’n Tech. Holdings Ltd., the Delaware District Court awarded the prevailing plaintiff in a patent infringement suit an ongoing royalty that covers not only the products...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Picture This: No Direct Infringement but no Fair Use Either

Addressing the use of third-party photographs on a real estate listing website, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found no direct copyright infringement, notwithstanding the display of thousands of copyrighted...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Cases Highlight Commercial Landlord Potential Liability for Trademark Infringement by Tenants

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• Reported verdicts and settlements in the last 10 years confirm that commercial landlords/owners could be held liable for the trademark infringement activity of their tenants. • Commercial landlords/owners must take...more

International Lawyers Network

“...For me? As what? Tough guy? I don’t need tough guys. I need more lawyers...”: Intellectual Property Law In Criminal Matters

There is a popular vintage Harley Davidson t-shirt that says “Tough Guys Finish First.” That may be true. But, sometimes, to finish first, one does not need more tough guys; one needs more lawyers, as a crime-related matter...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Trademark Owner’s Fate Sealed Tight After Finding of Fraud on PTO

Addressing the issue of collateral estoppel, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a ruling dismissing a trademark owner’s second infringement lawsuit against the same defendant after a finding that the...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Licensor’s Non-Material Breach Doesn’t Excuse Royalties Non-Payment

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed denial of a licensee’s motion for a new trial, finding that there was no error in awarding damages to the plaintiff/licensor for the licensee’s failure to pay royalties...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Federal Jury Finds that Ericsson’s Licensing Offer to HTC is FRAND

On February 15, a Texas federal jury found that Ericsson did not breach its obligation to offer HTC licenses to its standard-essential patents (SEPs) on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. The verdict ended...more

Knobbe Martens

CardiAQ - An IP Success Story

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At the recent ACC-Socal Double Header Event, Knobbe Martens presented, "CardiAQ - An IP Success Story." ...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Fresh From the Bench - August 2018 #2

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Click-to-Call Technologies, LP v. Ingenio, Inc., Appeal No. 2015-1242 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 16, 2018) In an appeal of an inter partes review, the Federal Circuit reviewed for the first time the...more

Jones Day

Jones Day Talks Intellectual Property: Blurrier Lines and Narrow Grounds—Implications of the Ninth Circuit’s Blurred Lines...

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When does inspiration turn into copyright infringement? The line is getting blurrier. Jones Day’s Meredith Wilkes, Anna Raimer, and Aryane Garansi explain how the Ninth Circuit’s decision—on “narrow grounds”—in the Blurred...more

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