June 28, 2024 - A party accused of infringing a patent in U.S. district court may challenge the validity of the asserted patent in an inter partes review (IPR) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ...

In a recent patent infringement case, Judge J. Paul Oetken (S.D.N.Y.) awarded attorneys’ fees under the Patent Act because the case was “exceptional,” but denied fees under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 and the ...

In Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Sling TV, LLC, et al., 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 21348 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 23, 2024), the Federal Circuit, in an opinion authored by Judge Alan D. Albright sitting by ...

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – In a ruling last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said a California federal court did not abuse its discretion in awarding the maker of the ...

“The CAFC said the district court found ‘the ’091 patent was ‘demonstrably weak on its face, despite the initial presumptions created when the patent was issued by the PTO.’” The U.S. Court of Appeals ...

“The substantial costs associated with patent attorneys, ranging from several thousand to tens of thousands of dollars, coupled with the opportunity costs that first-time patenting entails, may deter ...

Bayer AG's crop science division must cover attorneys' fees for a Dow Chemical Co subsidiary which it targeted with a frivolous patent infringement lawsuit, a federal appeals court has ruled. Sign up ...