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Dec 4, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Christopher DeVore |Robin Dunn |Brad Close

Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here “The CAFC agreed with the district court’s assessment that it is ‘plainly unreasonable for a technical expert to rely on unauthenticated, undated screenshots in forming an opinion.'” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision today affirming a district court’s grant of summary judgment of non-infringement for Meta/Facebook against claims by Mirror Worlds Technologies that Facebook’s...

Dec 4, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Brad Close |Ratib Ali |Eileen McDermott |Pinar Gencer

Support IPWatchdog with an individual sponsorship: Click here “Far from being a public harm, litigation finance is a net public good according to the panel, because it supports a secondary market for patent rights.”IPWatchdog has previously reported on aspects of litigation financing, including a recent article on inventor groups being wary of asymmetrical demands for transparency in revealing funding sources.

Jun 8, 2024 | washingtontimes.com | Brad Close

OPINION: Every member of Congress pledges to help small businesses. But now is the time for our nation’s leaders — on both sides of the aisle — to really deliver. This is the message that hundreds of small-business owners nationwide will deliver to Congress this week. My organization is bringing them to our nation’s capital because Main Street’s message is too important to ignore. But small businesses are being ignored.

May 28, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Stephen Schreiner |Brad Close |Randall R Rader

“When making oral argument, listen for judges that may be steering your argument into one of these pitfalls. Don’t take the bait.” Part I of this article discussed how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is a very different tribunal from district courts. It is a venue where fact and issues of law are decided by technical specialists, who are also highly trained in patent law, instead of lay judges and juries.

May 22, 2024 | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Stephen Schreiner |Brad Close |Louis Lehot

“We conclude that the entirely-own-time phrase does not unambiguously express a mutual intent to designate either all the time Dr. Core spent performing his PhD research as his own time…or some of it as partly TRW’s time….” – CAFC The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday, May 21, issued a precedential decision vacating and remanding a district court’s finding that Core Optical Technologies didn’t have standing to sue Nokia due to the language of a contract between...