Category: Western District of Washington
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Lessons for prior art search providers as Federal Circuit again sides with Valve in appeal over game controller patent
“Something more is required” for estoppel when a classification search returns tens of thousands of results; while forward-and-backward citation searches may result in hindsight bias.
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Starbucks invokes anti-patent-troll state law in major defensive complaint against Key Patent Innovations and its shell company
This is one of the most notable prophylactic patent-related lawsuits because it takes aim at a non-practicing entity’s shell company from multiple angles.