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May 18, 2012
Managing IP asked Federal Circuit chief judge Randall Rader for permission to interview one of his trusted law clerks for a behind-the-scenes look into the country’s top IP court. We sat down with Ellen Lin in Washington DC to discuss what life is like at the CAFC
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May 16, 2012
Nippon Steel has sued Korean steelmaker POSCO in the Tokyo District Court, requesting ¥100 billion ($1.25 billion) in damages. It filed the suit on April 19
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May 14, 2012
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s denial of a preliminary injunction against Samsung for products relating to three Apple patents, but said the court erred in its obviousness analysis regarding Apple’s design patent on the iPad
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May 07, 2012
A US jury has found that Google infringed “the overall structure, sequence and organization” of 37 of Oracle’s copyrighted Application Programming Interface (API) packages
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May 01, 2012
The Facebook and Yahoo! feud shows no signs of waning, with Yahoo! accusing Facebook of buying patents to respond to the search engine and email company’s lawsuit
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April 26, 2012
While a recent ITC ruling is a setback for Apple in its fight against Motorola, lawyers told Managing IP matters are far from over
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April 18, 2012
The US Supreme Court's decision in Hyatt v Kappos sends a clear message to the patent system that it is not special, one lawyer told Managing IP
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April 05, 2012
In-house counsel from Audi, GE Healthcare, GSK, Nokia, Philips, Skype, UBS and Unilever are speaking at Managing IP’s second International Patent Forum, taking place in London on April 18 and 19
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April 02, 2012
New York judge Colleen McMahon tells Karen Bolipata and a room full of judges why she went to law school, how she approaches patent cases, and why all judges need her invention, the e-Clerk
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March 30, 2012
Panellists at Managing IP’s inaugural US Patent Reform Forum this week debated whether the estoppel language tied to post grant review proceedings under the America Invents Act warrants a technical correction by Congress
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March 29, 2012
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan received three awards at the fifth annual North America Awards in Washington DC, in recognition of the firm’s active role in the so-called smartphone wars at the ITC and in the courts
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March 29, 2012
Becton Dickinson has prevailed against Therasense under the heightened inequitable conduct standard – defying the notion that the doctrine had been rendered obsolete by the Federal Circuit
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March 20, 2012
While there could be trouble ahead for diagnostic method patents following the Supreme Court ruling in Mayo v Prometheus, lawyers cautioned against viewing the decision as a death knell
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March 15, 2012
A divided 10-judge panel of the Federal Circuit today handed down a decision that could have major implications for strategies tied to the new post-grant procedures mandated by the America Invents Act
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March 14, 2012
Quinn Emanuel is becoming something of an authority on the art of patent fighting
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March 13, 2012
Yahoo!’s patent lawsuit against Facebook may signal it is joining the ranks of companies such as Kodak in attempting to monetise key technology to keep revenue flowing
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March 08, 2012
The US law on patentable subject matter has become muddied in a “swamp of verbiage”, according to the Federal Circuit in its ruling in MySpace v GraphOn
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March 08, 2012
The majority’s opinion in MySpace v GraphOn singled out the controversial topic of differing approaches to claim construction - an area of law that, like patent eligibility, many feel has become unpredictable in recent years
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March 06, 2012
As the US Republican presidential candidates await the results of Super Tuesday, they are also being sued in California for patent infringement
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March 02, 2012
Dave Kappos and Robert Armitage will headline Managing IP’s unique forum on US patent reform in Washington DC this month