Patent & IP news for April 24, 2017

Court of Appeal dismisses Huawei's first appeal in Unwired Planet patent fight from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat trying to stop time on a novelty clock.  With the ink yet to dry on the judgment of Birss J on the non-technical issues arising from the Unwired Planet litigation (reported hereand ...

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“Exemplary Embodiments” as Boiler Plate from patentlyo.com

Skedco v. Strategic Operations (StOps) (Fed. Cir. 2017) The district court sided with the accused-infringer StOps – finding (on summary judgment) no-infringement of Skedco’s exclusively licensed U.S. Patent No. 8,342,852 covering a ...

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Once upon a time: Inventive step argumentation as storytelling from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat crafting an invention story, but struggling
to identify a suitable protagonist....It is all about the story. A few years ago, a judge commented to the AmeriKat that they felt that sometimes patent ...

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Human Tissue Remodeling Patent Claiming “Application and Synthetization of Natural Law Into a Concrete Process” Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff’s human tissue remodeling patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims were not directed toward a natural law or phenomenon ...

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Qualcomm's involuntary refund to BlackBerry amounts to approximately $5 per device from www.fosspatents.com

About two weeks ago, BlackBerry announced that it was going to receive a refund of $814.9 million from Qualcomm (mentioned in this post), and Qualcomm confirmed that fact:

"The parties had agreed to arbitrate ...

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PTAB IPR decision in Synopsys v. ATopTech reversed by CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The decision of PTAB was reversed in the Synopsys case; Synopsys wins :



The present appeal arises from an inter partes review
(“IPR”) involving ATopTech, Inc. (“ATopTech”) and Synopsys,
Inc. (“Synopsys”). ATopTech petitioned for IPR of ...

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PTAB partially reversed in AUTOLIV case from ipbiz.blogspot.com



As to PTAB error:


Further, Ms. Balavich agreed with Autoliv’s interpretation
of Paragraph 71, and no evidence suggests an
alternative reading of the passage. Because Tajima’s
fixed vents do not “provide consistent venting ...

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CAFC reverses D. Oregon in Skedco case from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From the decision:



Skedco, Inc. (“Skedco”) is the exclusive licensee of U.S.
Patent No. 8,342,852 (“the ’852 patent”). The ’852 patent
is directed to a system for simulating trauma with lifelike
mannequins ...

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