November 2024

Nov. 14 Webinar on German FRAND Cases and Related Developments

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I will be moderating the event described in this announcement: Join us for “German FRAND Cases: The EC’s Amicus Brief and Other Developments” on Thursday, November 14, 2024, | 15:00 (Central European Time) | 14:00 (Greenwich Time) | 9:00 a.m. (U.S. Central Time) This one-hour webinar will focus on the developing German case law concerning FRAND-committed standard-essential patents (SEPs); the possible impact of […]

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Nov. 14 Webinar on German FRAND Cases and Related Developments

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I will be moderating the event described in this announcement: Join us for “German FRAND Cases: The EC’s Amicus Brief and Other Developments” on Thursday, November 14, 2024, | 15:00 (Central European Time) | 14:00 (Greenwich Time) | 9:00 a.m. (U.S. Central Time) This one-hour webinar will focus on the developing German case law concerning FRAND-committed standard-essential patents (SEPs); the possible impact of

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Tribal Nonprofit Says Employees Divulged Trade Secrets

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By Crystal Owens ( October 31, 2024, 8:47 PM EDT) — A Native American nonprofit is suing an Oregon environmental consulting firm, alleging that its founder and chief executive officer divulged the trade secrets information of tribes and others and made false accusations to donors that it was mismanaging funds…. Law360 is on it, so

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Nov. 14 Webinar on German FRAND Cases and Related Developments

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I will be moderating the event described in this announcement: Join us for “German FRAND Cases: The EC’s Amicus Brief and Other Developments” on Thursday, November 14, 2024, | 15:00 (Central European Time) | 14:00 (Greenwich Time) | 9:00 a.m. (U.S. Central Time) This one-hour webinar will focus on the developing German case law concerning FRAND-committed standard-essential patents (SEPs); the possible impact of

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Jury Awards Synopsys $550K In IP Suit Against Software Rival

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By Ivan Moreno ( October 31, 2024, 8:52 PM EDT) — A California federal jury has awarded software company Synopsys Inc. nearly $550,000 in damages after its competitor, Real Intent Inc., was found to have breached contractual agreements by copying certain commands from Synopsys’ software — but the defendants’ counsel considers the damages award a

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The New Rubric for Obviousness-Type Double Patenting | Mintz – Intellectual Property Viewpoints

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The basis for obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) is found in 35 U.S.C. § 101, establishing an applicant is entitled to a single patent, “a patent” or the “first” patent, for an invention. Thus, any “second” patent to a patently indistinct invention implicates the policy concerns underpinning ODP. For pre-URAA[i] patents, the “first” patent was determined

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Nov. 14 Webinar on German FRAND Cases and Related Developments

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I will be moderating the event described in this announcement: Join us for “German FRAND Cases: The EC’s Amicus Brief and Other Developments” on Thursday, November 14, 2024, | 15:00 (Central European Time) | 14:00 (Greenwich Time) | 9:00 a.m. (U.S. Central Time) This one-hour webinar will focus on the developing German case law concerning FRAND-committed standard-essential patents (SEPs); the possible impact of

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‘Extraordinary’ Fed. Circ. Ruling Revives Seirus Invalidity Row

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By Lauren Berg ( October 31, 2024, 8:33 PM EDT) — Seirus Innovative Accessories Inc. will be able to pursue its defense that a Columbia Sportswear clothing design patent is invalid as obvious “under the new, less-rigid approach” established by the Federal Circuit in an “extraordinary” decision earlier this year, a California federal judge ruled….

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Nov. 14 Webinar on German FRAND Cases and Related Developments

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I will be moderating the event described in this announcement: Join us for “German FRAND Cases: The EC’s Amicus Brief and Other Developments” on Thursday, November 14, 2024, | 15:00 (Central European Time) | 14:00 (Greenwich Time) | 9:00 a.m. (U.S. Central Time) This one-hour webinar will focus on the developing German case law concerning FRAND-committed standard-essential patents (SEPs); the possible impact of

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Judge Axes Disbarred NC Atty’s Suit After Late Objection

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By Ryan Harroff ( October 31, 2024, 8:07 PM EDT) — A North Carolina federal judge has thrown out a disbarred attorney’s suit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, stating that the former lawyer failed to timely object to a recommendation that the case be dismissed and that his stated reason for missing the

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