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- 07.08.2015
In this case, the district court originally found two of the asserted system claims and three of the asserted method claims not invalid, and a jury found that Lawson infringed ...
- 07.08.2015
On remand from the Supreme Court, following the Court’s decision that the Federal Circuit should give deference to a district court’s factual findings, but not to legal ...
- 07.08.2015
On appeal, the Federal Circuit reversed four claim constructions provided by the district court. First, the court held that the district court erred by construing a part of ...
- 07.08.2015
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s holding, on a motion to dismiss, that the claims of the patent-at-issue were not patent eligible under Section 101. ...
- 07.08.2015
The court affirmed the holding that the reissue patent-at-issue was invalid for obviousness-type double patenting. The issue for the court to decide was whether the ...
- 07.08.2015
On remand from the Supreme Court following its opinion in Teva Pharmaceuticals, the court affirmed all of the appealed claim constructions. As to the construction for the ...
- 07.08.2015
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the government on the patentee’s claim that the PTO had erred by refusing to give any ...
- 07.08.2015
The Federal Circuit remanded the district court’s finding that the case was not exceptional for the purpose of awarding attorney fees under Section 285 to the prevailing ...
- Bloomberg report: "Canyon Ridge lawsuit ends after four years and millions in payments to developer"07.07.2015
A recent Bloomberg report provides an update on Canyon Ridge Resort, LLC, et al. v. Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. et al., a case in which McKool Smith represents the developers of ...
- 07.01.2015
McKool Smith received high marks in the 2015 edition of IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners, which describes the firm as a “world-famous patent ...
- 06.16.2015
McKool Smith has been ranked as one of the nation’s leading intellectual Property (IP) litigation firms in Managing Intellectual Property’s third edition of “IP ...
- 06.11.2015
In affirming the grant of summary judgment that Sukumar had not demonstrated standing to bring a false marking claim against Nautilus, the court determined the meaning of ...
- 06.11.2015
In affirming the grant of summary judgment that all claims of the patent-in-suit are indefinite, the Federal Circuit held that computer-implemented means-plus-function ...
- 06.11.2015
In an interference, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board concluded that one of the applicants was estopped from establishing priority because it had lost two prior ...
- 06.11.2015
The Federal Circuit reversed the Commission’s decision holding that the complainant Standard had satisfied the domestic industry requirement of Section 337. ...
- 06.11.2015
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s holding that reissue claims that were broader than the claims of the original patent, as construed by the court, were ...
- 06.11.2015
The patent at issue claimed a “method for accessing and analyzing data on a commercially available drug to identify a new use of that drug, and then commercializing that new ...
- 06.11.2015
On remand from the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit affirmed its prior opinion that Limelight did not directly infringe the asserted method claims, holding that ...
- 06.11.2015
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of Samsung’s post-trial motions with respect to the patent issues, but reversed on the trade dress issues. ...
- 06.11.2015
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction. Here, the patents-in-suit involved new methods for using the drug ...
- 06.08.2015
- 06.05.2015
An attorney from the firm's Los Angeles office have been selected for inclusion in the Super Lawyers 2015 Southern California "Rising Stars" listing.
The Super ...
- 06.04.2015
McKool Smith is pleased to announce that three of the firm’s principals have been selected for inclusion in the 2014-2015 edition of the Lawdragon 500 listing of ...
- 05.19.2015
McKool Smith and 9 of the firm’s principals have been recognized in the 2015 edition of Chambers USA, a guide to the leading law firms and attorneys in the United States.
- 05.13.2015
Akamai Techs., Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., Case Nos. 2009-1372, 2009-1380, 2009-1416, and 2009-1417 (May 13, 2015); Opinion by: Linn, joined by Prost; dissent ...
- 05.05.2015
JP Morgan moved to stay the patent litigation brought against it by IV based on its representation that it intended to file petitions seeking covered business method patent ...
- 05.05.2015
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s construction of the term “disparate databases,” which was based on the patentee’s statement in the prosecution ...
- 05.05.2015
In a case involving only the issue of the amount of damages to award Astra for infringement of patents directed to Astra’s Prilosec drug, the district court, in a bench ...
- 05.05.2015
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s holding that defendant Sandoz had not proven obviousness by clear and convincing evidence. The court agreed with the ...
- 05.05.2015
Following the grant of summary judgment of non-infringement, defendant sought to recover its attorney’s fees under 35 U.S.C. Section 285, 28 U.S.C. Section 1928, and the ...
- 05.05.2015
The Federal Circuit held that it could not hear the patentees’ challenge to the PTO’s refusal to terminate pending reexaminations because the PTO’s refusal is not a ...
- 05.05.2015
The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary of anticipation. The claim at issue required a range of amounts for a particular ingredient. The court ...
- 05.05.2015
The Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment of no damages for infringement. The district court had stricken the plaintiff’s damages ...
- 05.05.2015
The Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s claim constructions and thus reversed the entry of judgment of non-infringement. The district court had construed the ...
- 05.05.2015
Previously, the Supreme Court held, in the Biosig case, that the Federal Circuit’s standard for determining indefiniteness (a claim is indefinite when it is not amenable ...
- 04.22.2015
McKool Smith celebrates another trial victory this week after Judge Terrence W. Boyles of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled ...
- 04.21.2015
As anticipated in the previous edition of this newsletter, the USPTO recently released details of its projected rule changes for 2015 in response to written comments. In a ...
- 04.21.2015
VMware Inc. v. Good Technology Software Inc., IPR2015-00027, 00030, and 00031 PTAB Paper 11 (’027 case) (March 6, 2015) (McKool Smith represents Good Technology)
In a ...
- 04.20.2015
The Federal Circuit vacated the jury’s award of $101,196,000 in damages to Warsaw and remanded for a new trial on the amount of a reasonable royalty. Although Warsaw sought ...
- 04.20.2015
The Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment of the claim phrase: “a contact hole for source wiring and gate wiring connection ...
- 04.20.2015
The Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s construction of the claim phrase: “A comprises at least three carbon atoms and represents at least one component of a ...
- 04.20.2015
The court made the following rulings: (1) the jury’s verdict that the ‘078 (camera) patent claims were not proven to have been obvious was supported by substantial ...
- 04.20.2015
In an ANDA case, the court affirmed the district court’s holding that the reexamined method claim and product claims were invalid as being obvious over seven prior art ...
- 04.20.2015
In an ANDA case, the district court held that the two patents-at-issue were valid and infringed. On appeal, the court held that: (1) the district court correctly construed ...
- 04.20.2015
The court considered the question of whether a third party has the right to challenge, by way of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), a ruling of the Patent and Trademark ...
- 04.20.2015
Apotex sought a declaratory judgment that it did not infringe a patent owned but disclaimed by Daiichi. The district court dismissed the complaint for lack of a case or ...
- 04.13.2015
- 04.09.2015
Austin principal Josh Budwin has been named a 2015 “Rising Star” by Law60. This annual feature recognizes the profession's top legal talent under the age of 40. To ...
- 03.31.2015
McKool Smith’s co-counsel victory in U.S. ex rel. Joshua Harman v. Trinity Industries Inc. et al has been recognized in The National Law Journal’s recent listing of ...
- 03.24.2015
Managing IP has named McKool Smith the 2015 U.S. “Patent Contentious Firm of the Year (South)” and principal Sam Baxter Texas “IP Litigator of the Year” at its eighth ...