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5 days ago | 
mlex.com | Melissa Ritti
By Melissa Ritti ( June 23, 2025, 16:56 GMT | Insight) -- The viability of an AT&T breach of contract counterclaim lodged in response to a complaint by Pegasus Wireless Innovation over 4G and 5G standard essential patents could hinge on the meaning assigned by a Texas judge to boilerplate language in the parties’ nondisclosure agreement.
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1 week ago | 
mlex.com | Melissa Ritti
By Melissa Ritti ( June 20, 2025, 13:40 GMT | Insight) -- The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this week left intact a jury verdict that Walmart Inc. and Wal-Mart.com USA are directly liable for infringing the copyrighted sculptural work of a homemaker-entrepreneur.
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1 week ago | 
mlex.com | Melissa Ritti
By Melissa Ritti ( June 16, 2025, 15:49 GMT | Comment) -- A new report from Lex Machina shows patent litigation remains highly lucrative and concentrated in a handful of US district courts. While the three judges overseeing the bulk of the nation’s patent cases remain unchanged, their courtrooms generated less in damages in 2023 and 2024 than in the two years prior. In good news for patentees, however, trials before other federal judges more than made up the gap.
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2 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Melissa Ritti
By Melissa Ritti ( June 10, 2025, 22:46 GMT | Comment) -- A recent decision by the acting director of the US Patent and Trademark Office to discretionarily deny institution of inter partes review, or IPR, of five patents in a nod to the patent owner’s “settled expectations” will have “far-reaching and damaging consequences,” former USPTO Director Kathi Vidal warns.
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2 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Melissa Ritti
By Melissa Ritti ( June 9, 2025, 15:55 GMT | Insight) -- A recent rejection by the full US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of the methodology employed by an expert for EcoFactor has no bearing on that same expert’s proposal of reasonable royalty damages owed by Apple to Optis, the standard-essential patent owner argued last week.
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3 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Melissa Ritti
By Melissa Ritti ( June 5, 2025, 16:03 GMT | Comment) -- Protracted trademark litigation between competing sesame oil makers that spawned multiple appeals and an unsuccessful petition for US Supreme Court review could finally go to trial later this year.
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3 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Melissa Ritti
By Melissa Ritti ( June 3, 2025, 22:57 GMT | Insight) -- In the latest update to the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure, the US Patent and Trademark Office drills down on the “first-filed” requirement for assessing priority based on an earlier-filed foreign application, introduces two new sections covering virtual goods and biomanufacturing and formalizes its new fee structure for registrants.
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3 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Melissa Ritti
By Melissa Ritti ( June 3, 2025, 15:29 GMT | Insight) -- Prolific patent litigant Intellectual Ventures flexed its portfolio might yesterday, accusing China’s Lenovo Group Limited of infringing six patents that trace their origins to fabless semiconductor company Transmeta, now defunct, and chipmaker Conexant, acquired by Synaptics in 2017. IV takes aim at a plethora of popular consumer electronics and asserts ownership of a variety of technological breakthroughs.
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3 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Melissa Ritti
By Melissa Ritti ( June 2, 2025, 13:32 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: US District Judge Wesley Hsu of the Central District of California denied a request by The Walt Disney Company and several streaming service co-defendants for an antisuit injunction against InterDigital-led infringement litigation underway in Brazil. In the same order, he denied InterDigital's motion to dismiss Disney's counterclaims of breach of contract.See attached document....
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1 month ago | 
mlex.com | Melissa Ritti
By Melissa Ritti ( May 29, 2025, 19:13 GMT | Comment) -- Just over one month after the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit declared “do it on AI” insufficient to transform an abstract idea into a patent-eligible application, their decision is being cited as dispositive by infringement defendants throughout the US. Citations to Recentive Analytics v. Fox Corp.
