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Genetic technologies settles infringement suit over non-DNA coding technology

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

Genetic Technologies Ltd. (GTG) has reportedly settled a patent infringement lawsuit filed in late 2012 against PreventionGenetics. While the terms

Federal Circuit addresses pleading standards for patent infringement claims

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a federal district court erred by relying on an incorrect pleading standard in dismissing

SCOTUS unanimously rules GM soybean patent infringed

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2013

The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that the "exhaustion doctrine" does not apply in the context of a patented genetically modified (GM) seed, and

Silicon Valley companies welcome new USPTO outpost

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2013

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has begun hiring judges who will staff its Silicon Valley regional office and expects to eventually hire

Federal Circuit issues seven opinions on patentability of software innovations

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2013

The en banc Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has divided over whether method and computer-readable media claims and system claims are directed to

News Bytes - April 18, 2013

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2013

The U.S. Department of Commerce announces the winners of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patents for Humanity pilot program. The awards

Obama signs Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2013

President Barack Obama (D) has signed into law legislation (S. 3486) that implements two patent law treaties: The Geneva Act of The Hague Agreement

Federal Circuit reminds litigants to cross-appeal patent invalidity claim

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 21 2013

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, in the context of patents on improvements to electronic animal collars, has in large part affirmed a lower

Location of outside patent counsel may not subject company to state jurisdiction

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2012

A federal court in Massachusetts has dismissed a suit seeking a declaration of non-infringement filed by a Massachusetts company against a Texasbased company, finding that the defendant lacked sufficient contacts with Massachusetts to allow the court to exercise jurisdiction over it

Federal Circuit applies patent issuance date to laches claim in inventorship correction suit

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 6 2012

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a claim for correction of inventorship under 35 U.S.C. 256 accrues when the patent issues and not when the allegedly omitted inventors purportedly knew or should have known that they were not named inventors on the patent application