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Federal Circuit applies Gunn, rules false statement about patent claim belongs in state court

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 6 2013

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a dispute over allegedly false statements about patents did not raise a substantial question

Vermont AG brings “patent troll” lawsuit

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 6 2013

To protect small businesses and non-profit organizations in the state, Vermont Attorney General (AG) Bill Sorrell has filed a lawsuit seeking to

News Bytes - June 6, 2013

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 6 2013

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office creates the After Final Consideration Pilot Program 2.0 which modifies and extends a program designed to

Federal Circuit rules organic farmers lack standing to challenge Monsanto patents

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 14 2013

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court's dismissal of the declaratory judgment action brought by a number of

Kraft sues Kellogg & Keebler alleging packaging patent infringement

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

Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC has filed a complaint in an Illinois federal court against Kellogg and Keebler, claiming that the companies' cookie

Organic farmers fail to show controversy, patent invalidation suit against Monsanto dismissed

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 2 2012

A federal court in New York has dismissed, for lack of jurisdiction, the claims filed by numerous organic farming interests seeking a declaration that they are not infringing Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) seed patents, the patents are invalid and unenforceable and the company would not be entitled to remedies against them

Science publisher claims submission of prior art to USPTO involves copyright infringement

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 15 2012

A New Jersey-based publishing company has filed copyright infringement lawsuits in federal courts in two states against law firms that submitted citations to or copies of copyrighted articles from scientific journals to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) with their clients’ patent applications

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 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

Federal Circuit addresses personal jurisdiction in patent infringement litigation

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 30 2012

Finding that the U.S. Supreme Court “has yet to reach a consensus on the proper articulation of the stream-of-commerce theory” of personal jurisdiction to assess whether a court has jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in a patent infringement suit, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has applied its own theory, which assesses the pleadings and evidence under “any articulation of the stream-of-commerce theory,” and has determined that a district court in Wyoming properly dismissed two patent infringement lawsuits for lack of jurisdiction