Intellectual Property News and Reports

Appellants Honeywell International Inc., Telit Cinterion Deutschland GmbH, and Sierra Wireless, ULC (collectively, “Honeywell”) appeal the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“Board”) final written decision in IPR2021- 00908 declining to hold claims 1, 2, 4–7, 9–13, and 15–23 of U.S.... Read more →

The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal, for failure to state a claim, of an action under the Lanham Act alleging trademark infringement in defendant’s advertising and selling of equity. LegalForce RAPC Worldwide, P.C. (“LegalForce USA”), a California S corporation... Read more →

When a generic drugmaker applies to market a drug using the same active ingredient as a branded drug, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) cannot approve the generic company’s application if the generic company’s drug would infringe the brand-name manufacturer’s... Read more →

Taiwanese company Sysco Machinery Corp. ("Sysco") sued Taiwanese company Cymtek Solutions, Inc. ("Cymtek") and Taiwanese company Cymmetrik Enterprise Co. Ltd. ("Cymmetrik") in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts for conduct originating in Taiwan that allegedly infringed Sysco... Read more →

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (“PAN”) successfully petitioned for inter partes review (IPR) of claims 1–18 of Centripetal Networks, LLC’s (“Centripetal’s”) U.S. Patent No. 10,530,903 (the “’903 patent”), asserting unpatentability for obviousness based on three prior-art references, two of which are... Read more →

This case asks us to consider again whether to attribute a customer’s use of a claimed system to the manufacturer of only part of the system. Appellant NCR Corporation (“NCR”) appeals the United States District Court for the Western District... Read more →

The panel reversed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of SAP SE in Teradata Corporation’s action alleging that SAP illegally conditioned sales of its business-management software on sales of its back-end database engine in violation of Section 1 of... Read more →

In an action brought by software developer Oracle International Corporation against Rimini Street, Inc., under the Copyright Act and the Lanham Act, the panel vacated in part the district court’s permanent injunction against Rimini, a third-party provider and direct competitor... Read more →

In an action brought by software developer Oracle International Corporation against Rimini Street, Inc., under the Copyright Act and the Lanham Act, the panel vacated in part the district court’s permanent injunction against Rimini, a third-party provider and direct competitor... Read more →

Plaintiff Charles Curry, Jr., is a former competitive powerlifter and body builder. Today, he is an entrepreneur and small-business owner. In 2002, Curry started a nutritional supplements business called Get Diesel Nutrition, eponymous with his bodybuilding nickname, “Chuck Diesel.” He... Read more →