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 →

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 →

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 →

PS Products, Inc. and Mr. Billy Pennington (collectively, PSP) appeal an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas granting Panther Trading Company, Inc.’s (Panther) motion for sanctions. Because the district court did not apply... Read more →

Galderma Laboratories, L.P., TCD Royalty Sub LP (Galderma) appeals a decision from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware finding Lupin Inc. and Lupin Ltd.’s (collectively, Lupin) abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) does not infringe U.S. Patent... Read more →

DDR Holdings, LLC (DDR) appeals a final judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware of non-infringement of U.S. Patent No. 7,818,399 (’399 patent) for Priceline.com LLC and Booking.com B.V. (collectively, Priceline.com or Appellees). DDR alleges... Read more →

Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. and related English corporation CarnaudMetalbox Engineering Ltd. (collectively, “Crown”) brought suit against Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. (“Belvac”) for infringement of various claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 9,308,570 (“the ’570 patent”), 9,968,982 (“the ’982 patent”), and 10,751,784... Read more →

Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC (Mirror Worlds) owns U.S. Patent Nos. 6,006,227; 7,865,538; and 8,255,439, which describe and claim methods for storing, organizing, and presenting data in time-ordered streams (i.e., in a chronological manner) on a computer system. In 2017, Mirror... Read more →

In this consolidated appeal, Cytiva BioProcess R&D AB (“Cytiva”) appeals the final written decisions from six inter partes reviews (“IPRs”), determining that 79 claims of the three challenged patents are unpatentable. JSR Corp. and JSR Life Sciences, LLC (collectively, “JSR”)... Read more →