Category: United States
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Shoals wins $96M North Carolina jury verdict for infringement of solar patents subject to prosecution bar stipulation
In a related case before the USITC, the parties had stipulated to a bar on Shoals’ ITC counsel prosecuting new patent applications.
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BREAKING: Celerity loses Texas trial against U.S. carriers over three patents: win for Nokia, Ericsson
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile successfully defended themselves, with help from intervenors Nokia and Ericsson, against three Celerity patents.
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Lupin granted win against Vertex in Delaware over cystic fibrosis drug patents
Lupin’s generic version of Vertex’s cystic fibrosis treatment Kalydeco does not infringe the latter’s patents, Judge Stephanos Bibas of the Third Circuit has ruled.
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Wilus opens new front against TP-Link with California complaint over Wi-Fi SEPs; Sisvel license would resolve disputes
Research and licensing firm Wilus sued networking equipment maker TP-Link in the Eastern District of Texas in April.
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Guardant Health ordered to pay TwinStrand Biosciences and University of Washington $245M in Delaware dispute over DNA sequencing patents
The co-plaintiffs were originally awarded $83.4 million by a District of Delaware jury in November 2023.
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Former USPTO deputy director Coke Stewart on C4IP President appointment
“There is a concern that the pendulum is swinging back and forth from one director to another, or one administration to another. While there isn’t an agreement on what the reforms should be, there is consensus that the changes need to be permanent, and I can better do that from the outside,” Ms. Stewart told…
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FTC urges Fourth Circuit to reject Amgen plea to shield Roche patent acquisition: deal “threatens to upend” long-settled antitrust framework
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed an amicus brief in an antitrust case between CareFirst and Amgen, urging the Fourth Circuit to reject Amgen’s bid to shield its acquisition of pending patent applications from antitrust scrutiny, as such procurements violate the Sherman Act and are not immunized by the Noerr-Pennington doctrine.
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Valtrus Innovations expands data center-focused campaign with multiple district court complaints asserting former HPE patents
Meanwhile, Starbucks’ declaratory judgment and anti-troll actions against Valtrus in Washington have been terminated.
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Canadian Solar, Maxeon settle U.S. patent dispute
The Eastern District of Texas has dismissed Maxeon’s suit against Canadian Solar with prejudice, while the Federal Circuit has vacated the relevant portion of a PTAB decision relating to Maxeon’s remaining claim, resolving the case in Canadian Solar’s favor.
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Zoom gets dialed in to Delaware suit as PulseLink files additional complaint over patents acquired from Avaya
It’s the second complaint that PAE PulseLink Systems LLC has filed against Zoom, following one in the Eastern District of Texas earlier this year.