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- 07.25.2016
Mike McKool, a founder and Chairman of McKool Smith, and firm principal Sam Baxter have been recognized as “Legends of the 500” by Lawdragon based on their inclusion in ...
- 07.20.2016
McKool Smith's recent victory on behalf of Warren Pumps before New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, topped Law360’s listing of the "Biggest Insurance ...
- 07.2016
Intelligent Bio-Systems filed an Inter Partes Review proceeding in the PTO seeking to invalidate Illumina’s patent as being obvious under Section 103. Illumina’s ...
- 07.2016
The Federal Circuit clarified the inquiry for identifying abstract ideas. Patent claims (even if software related) that “are directed to a specific improvement to the ...
- 07.2016
This case involved two issues: (1) the correctness of the district court’s construction of the term “essentially midway” referring the location of a recess along a ...
- 07.2016
In an ANDA case, Watson contended that claim 4 of the Merck’s patent was invalid under the on sale bar of Section 102(b). The district court held that claim 4 was not invalid ...
- 07.2016
In this ANDA case involving claims directed to a hydrogel for topical treatment, the district court found the claims to be infringed under the doctrine of equivalents and ...
- 07.2016
The district court dismissed the case on the grounds that Diamond Coating lacked standing, as it had not received all of the necessary patent rights in the transaction with ...
- 07.2016
The claims at issue were directed to a method and system for taking, transmitting, and organizing digital images by assigning classification information to the images ...
- 07.2016
Aqua Products appealed the PTAB’s denial of its motion to amend its claims in the IPR proceeding on two grounds: (1) that the PTAB misinterpreted the Patent Office’s ...
- 07.2016
Profectus’ patent claims at issue were directed to “mountable” digital picture frames for displaying digital images. Defendants’ sold tablet computer devices. ...
- 07.2016
The claims-at-issue are directed to a process for producing purified benzene requiring a final step of fractionalizing to form a purified benzene product comprising at ...
- 07.2016
In this Order, the Federal Circuit dismissed the appeal from a non-final adjudication from the PTAB. Arunachalam appealed to the Federal Circuit from the examiner’s ...
- 07.2016
This appeal involves the construction of the claim term “communications path.” The district court construed it to be limited to wired communications thereby ...
- 07.08.2016
Houston principal Hugh Ray discusses the rise in Houston’s energy-related bankruptcies in a recent article published by the Houston Business Journal titled ...
- 07.01.2016
- 06.23.2016
McKool Smith Hennigan has once again played an integral role in the success of the "Food From The Bar" (FFTB) campaign. FFTB is an annual four-week charitable effort led by the ...
- 06.15.2016
McKool Smith has once again earned The Legal 500’s recognition as a top tier U.S. firm for patent litigation. According to the directory, McKool Smith’s patent ...
- 06.07.2016
McKool Smith has been ranked as one of the nation’s leading intellectual Property (IP) litigation firms in Managing Intellectual Property’s 2016 edition of “IP ...
- 06.06.2016
McKool Smith Hennigan is pleased to announce that attorneys from the firm’s Los Angeles office have been selected for inclusion in the 2016 edition of Southern ...
- 06.06.2016
McKool Smith received top national and regional ranking for the fifth consecutive year in the 2016 edition of IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners.
- 06.03.2016
McKool Smith and 9 of the firm’s principals have been recognized in the 2016 edition of Chambers USA, a guide to the leading law firms and attorneys in the United States.
- 06.2016
In SAS Institute, Inc. v. ComplementSoft, LLC (Fed. Cir. June 10, 2016), the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a PTAB finding of patentability due to a changed claim ...
- 06.2016
The Supreme Court issued its Cuozzo opinion on June 20, 2016, affirming that (1) PTAB decisions to institute an inter partes review are not appealable and (2) that the PTAB may ...
- 06.2016
On June 14, 2016, the Federal Circuit stated that parties must expect the introduction of new evidence after the PTAB’s institution decision for an inter partes review ...
- 05.26.2016
On May 26, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a Rule 36 affirmance of a District Court judgment of non-infringement and invalidity that ...
- 05.2016
The PTO recently released a Motion to Amend Study, assembling data regarding the filing and success rates of motions to amend in AIA proceedings. Parties have filed motions ...
- 05.2016
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has designated five additional AIA opinions as precedential, bringing the total count to eight. The PTAB’s “Decisions” page links ...
- 05.20.2016
McKool Smith’s bankruptcy practice received an award for Energy & Services “Restructuring of the Year” at the prestigious Global M&A Network 8th Annual Turnaround ...
- 05.13.2016
Geotag appealed the district court’s decision: (1) dismissing Google’s declaratory judgment complaint while retaining jurisdiction over GeoTag’s infringement ...
- 05.13.2016
Simpleair sued Google for infringement of its patent relating to data communications connecting on-line networks with on-line and off-line computers. The jury found that ...
- 05.13.2016
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment that equitable estoppel precludes prosecution of High Point’s lawsuit against Sprint. ...
- 05.13.2016
Cardpool appealed the ruling of the district court denying the parties’ joint motion to vacate the district court’s judgment of patent invalidity insofar as the ...
- 05.13.2016
In this IPR proceeding, the PTAB cancelled all of the claims-at-issue as being obvious over the asserted prior art. The claims related to wheelchairs designed to travel ...
- 05.13.2016
HP, who instituted the IPR on MPHJ’s patent, appeals the decision of the PTAB finding claim 13 not anticipated by the prior art. HP’s petition alleged anticipation and ...
- 05.13.2016
Following a jury trial, in which the jury found that Rembrandt’s patent had not been infringed by Johnson & Johnson, Rembrandt learned through an investigation of its own ...
- 05.13.2016
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal based on the patent claims being directed to ineligible subject matter under Section 101. The claims at issue ...
- 05.13.2016
In a design patent case involving the design of a personal flotation device having two arm bands connected to a torso piece, the Federal Circuit reversed the finding of ...
- 05.13.2016
The court reversed the PTAB’s constructions, under the broadest reasonable interpretation standard, of the terms “adapted to be held by the human hand” and “thumb ...
- 05.13.2016
The district court granted a motion to dismiss Mankes’ complaint on the grounds that he could not establish direct infringement under the law of “joint infringement” ...
- 05.13.2016
Kraft Foods Group sued TC Heartland in Delaware for infringement of Kraft’s patents. Heartland is an Indiana company that is headquartered in Indiana. Heartland is not ...
- 05.13.2016
Mike McKool, a Founder and Chairman of McKool Smith, has been recognized as an “Icon of IP” by Law360. The publication’s IP Icon series honors the top 25 lawyers in the ...
- 05.11.2016
McKool Smith Chairman and co-founder Mike McKool along with firm principals Douglas Cawley, Sam Baxter, and William LaFuze have been selected for inclusion in World ...
- 05.06.2016
On Tuesday, May 3, 2016, McKool Smith secured a landmark decision for its client Warren Pumps LLC from New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, on an issue of first ...
- 04.28.2016
In this IPR proceeding brought by Harmonic, the PTO instituted the IPR based on some, but not all of the grounds asserted by Harmonic. As to the grounds that the PTO did not ...
- 04.28.2016
Groupon petitioned the PTO for a Covered Business Method Review (CBM) on Blue Calypso’s patents. The PTO held that the patents were “covered business method ...
- 04.28.2016
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment of non-infringement, but reversed summary judgment that the claims were indefinite. The ...
- 04.28.2016
The patentee petitioned the Federal Circuit to withdraw the district court’s order compelling it to produce communications between it and its patent agent. In a case of ...
- 04.28.2016
In an interference proceeding, Bamberg copied Dalvey’s claims to invoke the interference. The claims involved the method of transferring printed images onto dark ...
- 04.28.2016
The claims at issue in this patent application were directed to a method of conducting a wagering game using a standard deck of cards that are shuffled and dealt. The Federal ...