Category: United States
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Jinko Solar settles another U.S. solar panel patent infringement dispute
Chinese solar panel manufacturer JinkoSolar has settled its patent infringement litigation against rivals VSUN Solar USA Inc., Toyo Co. Ltd., Abalance Corporation, and subsidiaries WWB Corporation and Fuji Solar Co., Ltd. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Hisense, AU Optronics successfully defend LCD panel patent infringement allegations: Eastern District of Texas
The win for AU Optronics is particularly significant as it marks the first time in over 22 years that a Taiwanese company has obtained a defense verdict in a patent infringement case against a U.S. company in the Eastern District of Texas, according to the company.
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An interview with Manny Schecter, IBM’s former patent chief
“My biggest challenge was the constant need to educate inventors and business executives about IP and its importance for innovation,” Mr. Schecter, who served as IBM’s chief patent counsel for 14 years, told ip fray.
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“Limited” UPC impact on global pharma patent strategies, interim licenses debate, “seismic” changes at the PTAB: highlights from Patent Litigation Europe
An overwhelming consensus that life sciences companies prefer to litigate in parallel national courts rather than in the UPC, and an intense debate about the use of interim licenses over arbitration, were among the highlights of the second and third days of Kisaco’s annual Patent Litigation Europe in Amsterdam this week.
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Third-Party Litigation Funding bill failed in U.S. Congress — and “foreign abuse” turned out to be nothing but pretextual
Many members of the litigation finance ecosystem (funders as well as inventors and companies dependent on their support) breathed a sigh of relief a few days ago when the TPLF bill was pulled.
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Useful to U.S. patent litigators: Certum Group releases model brief to oppose discovery into litigation funding
We just want to draw practitioners’ attention to this initiative, which does the patent litigation community a service.
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Onesta files emergency renewed motion to stay injunction in BMW infringement case, invoking judicial estoppel
If this renewed motion is denied, Onesta will “immediately terminate” the parallel cases against BMW in Germany, the company has asserted.
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Edwards faces heart valve patent infringement suit in District of Delaware
Edwards Lifesciences, an active enforcer of its heart valve technology patents in the Unified Patent Court, is now finding itself on the defending side of a patent infringement suit, filed by Israel-based rival Cardiovalve in the U.S.
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Canadian Solar gains victory in U.S. solar panel infringement dispute against Maxeon: all patents-in-suit invalidated
The USPTO PTAB has invalidated three of Maxeon’s solar panel technology patents, granting Canadian Solar a major win in the ongoing solar panel patent infringement wars.