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USPTO Director dismisses more inter partes reviews under new rules against petitioners taking different positions on validity in court
Read more: USPTO Director dismisses more inter partes reviews under new rules against petitioners taking different positions on validity in courtDirector John Squires is continuing to intervene to stop what he and others see as “bad faith” use of IPRs.
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Actelion falls foul of disclosure-dedication rule, prosecution estoppel in Federal Circuit challenge to Mylan’s hypertension generic
Read more: Actelion falls foul of disclosure-dedication rule, prosecution estoppel in Federal Circuit challenge to Mylan’s hypertension genericThe Federal Circuit agreed that there was neither literal infringement, nor infringement under the doctrine of equivalents.
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IP winners, litigation funding dangers and speaking the C-suite language: IP Dealmakers closing highlights
Read more: IP winners, litigation funding dangers and speaking the C-suite language: IP Dealmakers closing highlightsA debate on whether litigation funding is unjustifiably driving up the value of patents, advice for patent executives on how best to talk to the C-suite, and what makes a “winning” IP team were among the highlights of the third day of IP Dealmakers Europe.
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Via licensor Philips settles Qi dispute with Belkin; Renault takes patent license from Broadcom
Read more: Via licensor Philips settles Qi dispute with Belkin; Renault takes patent license from BroadcomBased on decisions by the UPC to close cases, two significant SEP disputes have apparently been settled: Philips-Belkin (a win for Via in all likelihood) and Broadcom-Renault.
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Brazilian patent judge: “other jurisdictions cannot stop us”; ready to talk to judges in other jurisdictions “to cooperate, not to submit”
Read more: Brazilian patent judge: “other jurisdictions cannot stop us”; ready to talk to judges in other jurisdictions “to cooperate, not to submit”Judge Victor Torres sent out important message to judges in other jursidictions during the course of an Oxfirst webinar on Brazilian injunctions.
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Munich appeals court lifts injunction against Deutsche Telekom fixed-line offering, clarifies approach to heterogeneous instrumentalities
Read more: Munich appeals court lifts injunction against Deutsche Telekom fixed-line offering, clarifies approach to heterogeneous instrumentalitiesThe patent holder accused specific Deutsche Telekom offerings of infringement and differentiated between the network infrastructure products powering them. But the injunction was not tailored to particular setups, which would have left certain questions to the enforcement proceedings.
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Decoding BYD’s patent footprint: from stack control to scale, from foreign bets to policy friction
Read more: Decoding BYD’s patent footprint: from stack control to scale, from foreign bets to policy frictionBYD used to look, from outside China, like a distant domestic EV champion. It no longer does. This study mines BYD’s patent-family data for the underlying strategy, not just the counts. The result is a map of stack control, foreign bets, and policy-constrained markets.


