Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew is scheduled for Conference this Friday. A decision whether to grant certiorari is expected at 9:30 AM on Monday, February 29. Petitioner argues that belief ...
A revised copy of Top Ten Patent Cases is attached which features new No. (1) Lexmark(dealing with patent “exhaustion”) which, if properly petitioned, is very likely to be the subject ...
Today in Lexmark International, Inc. v. Impression Products, Inc., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(en banc)(Taranto, J.), an en banc majority maintained the court’s prior holdings in (a)Mallinckrodt, Inc. v. ...
Earlier this week in Synopsys, Inc. v. Mentor Graphics Corp. v. Lee, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Dyk, J.), where the PTAB had granted a petition for review of some ...
Note: The pdf version identified below is attached. Today in Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Chen, J.), in a patent owner’s appeal of the denial ...
Frank Wolffe was one of the many respected patent attorneys of the mid-twentieth century who gained a legal education from the George Washington University Law School (JD 1954). Frank was ...
Today in Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Chen, J.), in a patent owner’s appeal of the denial of patentability in an Inter Partes Reexamination, the ...
Evelyn Sommer served for twenty years as Chief Patent and Trademark Counsel to Champion International Corporation and had also been in private practice at several firms including Skadden, Arps, Slate, ...
Lexmark International v. Impression Products is now sitting at the Federal Circuit awaitingen banc decision whether the court sustains its Jazz Photo denial of international patent exhaustion (which would trigger ...
Today, in a case of first impression, Rosebud LMS Inc. v. Adobe Sys. Inc., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Moore, J.), following grant of the patent, the court denied pre-grant compensation ...