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Government Signals Potential Shift Toward Preliminary Injunctions in Patent Infringement Cases

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In a recent patent case, the U.S. government urged a Texas federal court to give greater weight to the difficulty of calculating damages as a basis for finding irreparable harm. If embraced by courts, the move could give...more

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Canadian Patentees are Presumptively Entitled to the Remedies of an Accounting of Profits and a Permanent Injunction

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In two companion appeals relating to patents over television interactive programming guides, the Federal Court of Appeal clarified that a successful patent plaintiff is entitled to an accounting of the defendant’s profits...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

District Court Grants Permanent Injunction, but Denies Product Recall

A judge in the Western District of Michigan enjoined a roofing manufacturer’s infringing and directly-competing vented soffit product, but denied the patentee’s request for a complete product recall....more

McDermott Will & Emery

Lowering the Bar for Irreparable Harm: Infringing Feature Need Not Be the Exclusive Driver of Consumer Demand - Apple Inc. v....

How does a patent owner prove it has been irreparably harmed when the protected feature is only a small part of an infringing device? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit answered that question in the ongoing IP...more

McDermott Will & Emery

“Raging Bull” and the Patent Act: Laches Still Available in Patent Cases - SCA Hygiene Products AB et al. v. First Quality Baby...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit convened an en banc panel to examine the Supreme Court’s “Raging Bull” decision in Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. in the context of deciding whether laches remains a...more

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Apple v. Samsung Part IV: The Injunction May Not Be Dead

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On Thursday, September 17, 2015, in the fourth Federal Circuit opinion arising out of the patent skirmishes between global high technology titans Apple and Samsung Electronics, a sharply divided Federal Circuit panel vacated...more

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ITC Section 337 Update – October 2015

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ITC Proposes Extensive Changes To Rules For Adjudicating Section 337 Investigations – On September 24, 2015, the Commission published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register announcing proposed changes to its...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Federal Circuit to Judge Posner: eBay Analysis Is a Must

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (in a case that attracted a dozen amici briefs) affirmed a district court ruling by Circuit Judge Posner (sitting by designation) that the holder of the FRAND-encumbered SEP...more

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