Intellectual Property News and Reports

Pocket Plus, LLC, sued Pike Brands, LLC (“Running Buddy”) for trade-dress infringement of Pocket Plus’s portable pouch. The district court granted summary judgment to Running Buddy and awarded it a portion of its requested attorney fees. Pocket Plus appeals the... Read more →

CUPP Computing AS (“CUPP”) appeals three inter partes review (“IPR”) decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) concluding that petitioner Trend Micro Inc. had shown challenged claims in CUPP’s U.S. Patents Nos. 8,631,488 (“’488 patent”), 9,106,683 (“’683 patent”),... Read more →

Appellee Intel Corporation filed three petitions for inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 7,247,552 (“the ’552 patent”), which is owned by appellant VLSI Technology LLC. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituted the IPR proceedings, and in a... Read more →

American National Manufacturing Inc. and Sleep Number Corp. each appeals the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s final written decisions in two inter partes reviews. The Board issued mixed decisions in those proceedings, determining that some, but not all, of the... Read more →

For these reasons, we conclude that the district court clearly abused its discretion in issuing its scheduling order. We do not decide in this case (which does not present the issue) whether and the extent to which merits discovery may... Read more →

On remand from the Supreme Court in this copyright-infringement action brought by Unicolors, Inc., against H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P., the panel affirmed the district court's judgment in general, save that it vacated and remanded with instructions to grant a... Read more →

Caudill Seed & Warehouse Co. manufactures an important ingredient in certain nutritional supplements. Jarrow Formulas, Inc., a customer of Caudill’s, wanted to get into this manufacturing business. To do this, Jarrow decided to lure away Caudill’s Director of Research, Kean... Read more →

Sunset Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (“Sunset”) appeals the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts’s order granting preliminary injunctive relief to SoClean, Inc. (“SoClean”) requiring “Sunset to clearly associate its online marketing and sales . . . with the Sunset... Read more →

Uniloc 2017 LLC (“Uniloc 2017”) brought multiple patent infringement suits against Google LLC in the Eastern District of Texas. Uniloc 2017 alleged that various Google products infringed a variety of patents directed to innovations in multimedia content delivery (Nos. 6,628,712,... Read more →

Uniloc USA, Inc. and Uniloc Luxembourg, S.A. (together, “the Unilocs”) sued Motorola in the District of Delaware for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,161,134 (the “Motorola case”). The asserted patent concerns, in part, pairing a telephone with another device and... Read more →