Well that didn’t last long. A fresh patent spat between Nokia and Apple which fired up at the back end of last year when Cupertino accused the former world number one mobile maker of making like a
The Supreme Court of the United States on May 30, 2017 adopted a rule of international exhaustion of patent rights for the United States in Impression Products v. Lexmark International, No. 15-1189.
protecting its IPR. Confrontation over IPR can also be seen as competition in another form," Li said. However, patent lawsuits are unique in that many such cases can be settled out of court if the
In February 2018, the Danish Ministry of Justice introduced a new bill aiming at expanding the rules on witness exclusion to include patent attorneys. If the bill is passed by the Danish Parliament
from a Massachusetts court underscores this tightrope walk, and serves as a warning that claims drafted too loosely—while allowed by the USPTO—can leave the patent at risk for invalidation by
The EPO joined the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in organising a conference on IP on 16 March in Sofia under the auspices of the
complaint, the FDA accepted Celltrion’s biosimilar application on June 27, 2017, and since that time the parties have been engaged in the so-called “patent dance” portion of the BPCIA. In particular, on
District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, yesterday, April 10, as reported by Bloomberg. VirnetX filed the patent infringement lawsuit in 2012, after also filing a related
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has outlined targets to reduce the time it takes to process patent applications, Andrei Iancu, director of the USPTO, has said. Addressing a Senate panel
headquartered, at the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court. Notably, it will be one of the first major patent clashes between major players in China’s smartphone sector to play out in domestic courts.