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The Twitter IPA: what does defensive really mean?

  • Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 5 2012

Twitter is an innovative company, and today’s introduction of the Innovator’s Patent Agreement shows that their legal department can be innovative too

ALJ Bullock issues notice of initial determination in Certain Video Game Systems (337-TA-770)

  • Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 4 2012

On August 31, 2012, Chief ALJ Charles E.Bullock issued a notice regarding the Initial Determination on Violation (“ID”) in Certain Video Game Systems and Wireless Controllers and Components Thereof (337-TA-770

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 4 2012

On August 24, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit largely denied Verizon’s appeal of the $140 million damages awarded by a Virginia district court to ActiveVideo Networks on claims that Verizon FiOS infringed certain ActiveVideo patents for on-demand video

Commission affirms no violation finding as to four patents and remands to ALJ with respect to one patent in Inv. No. 337-TA-745

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • USA
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  • September 1 2012

On August 24, 2012, the Commission issued a Notice of its decision to affirm the ALJ’s finding of no violation as to U.S. Patent Nos. 5,636,223 and 6,272,333 patents and to reverse the finding of violation as to U.S. Patent No. 6,246,697 in Inv. No. 337-TA-745, Certain Wireless Communication Devices, Portable Music and Data Processing Devices, Computers and Components Thereof, involving Complainant Motorola Mobility and Respondent Apple

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Federal Circuit affirms jury verdict of invalidity based on on-sale bar and public use

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • USA
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  • June 28 2012

Affirming the district court’s judgment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit cleared Facebook of allegations of patent infringement, finding that that the patent in suit was invalid under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) because the patentee’s product which embodied the patented subject matter was on sale and in public use more than one year before the filing of the patent

Federal Circuit passes torch from juries to judges for willful infringement determinations

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 25 2012

Just in time for the London 2012 Summer Olympics, the Federal Circuit, in Bard Peripheral Vascular v. W.L. Gore & Assocs., passes the torch from juries to judges on willful infringement determinations in patent litigation

Leader Technologies, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., No. 2011-1366 (Fed. Cir. May 8, 2012)

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 31 2012

A patent for a product, while presumed valid, is rendered invalid if a challenging party proves by clear and convincing evidence that the product in public use or on sale prior to the critical date, one year prior to the patent filing, was embodied by the claimed invention

Jury rules that Google infringed copyright: but was it fair?

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 18 2012

A Californian jury has ruled that the Android mobile platform, which is operated by Google Inc, infringes copyright relating to the Java programming language, which is owned by Oracle Corp

Last month at the Federal Circuit - April 2012

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 30 2012

In MySpace, Inc. v. GraphOn Corp., No. 11-1149 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 2, 2012), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s SJ grant of invalidity of the patents-in-suit owned by GraphOn Corp. (“GraphOn”