Dow Lohnes Patent Alert: Equitable Estoppel Bars Infringement Claims against...
(Equitable Estoppel/Procedure) Yesterday, March 6, 2013, in Radio Systems Corp. v. Lalor, No. 2012-1233, the Federal Circuit (Newman, Moore, and Reyna) held that equitable estoppel barred infringement...
View ArticleFederal Circuit denies Motorola’s motion to dismiss or transfer Apple FRAND...
We’ve got an update from the Apple-Motorola Federal Circuit FRAND jurisdictional dispute. Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Motorola’s motion to dismiss Apple’s FRAND...
View ArticleWhich appeals court has appellate jurisdiction over the Microsoft-Motorola...
The district court in the Microsoft-Motorola RAND breach of contract case has already decided some unique issues of first impression, and will take on some more in the next phase of the case. And if...
View ArticleMPHJ Technology Investments seeks removal of Vermont consumer protection...
We’re going to take a brief time-out from SEP issues here for a short update on a case that’s being watched with interest by many in the patent world — the Vermont Attorney General’s consumer...
View ArticleDow Lohnes Patent Alert: Federal Circuit Permits Appeal of Liability Prior to...
(Damages/Interlocutory Appeal) Today, June 14, 2013, in Robert Bosch LLC v. Pylon Manufacturing Corp., No. 2011-1363, 1364, an en banc Federal Circuit ruled that parties can appeal a decision on...
View ArticleApple files opening appellate brief in second Motorola/FRAND-related Federal...
Last week, we noted that the Federal Circuit will hold a September 11 oral argument in Apple and Motorola’s appeals of Judge Posner’s June 2012 decision to dismiss the parties’ competing infringement...
View ArticleMotorola appeals to Federal Circuit Judge Robart’s Rule 54(b) judgment on...
Today Judge Robart issued an Order certifying a Rule 54(b) judgment in the Microsoft v. Motorola case where he had issued a first of its kind RAND rate ruling on Motorola H.264 and 802.11 standard...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules that Burden to Show Infringement in Declaratory Judgment...
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Medtronic, Inv. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC, unanimously reversing the Federal Circuit’s decision below and resolving two issues that are...
View ArticleBack to state court: Vermont’s unfair competition suit premised solely on...
After being removed to federal district court last May, the Vermont Attorney General’s suit against non-practicing entity MPHJ is being sent back to state court. The decision holds that the AG’s unfair...
View ArticleAppeal of Judge Robart’s RAND ruling transfered to Ninth Circuit (Microsoft...
Today the Federal Circuit (Lourie, Dyk and Reyna) granted Microsoft’s motion to transfer Motorola’s appeal of Judge Robart’s RAND ruling to the Ninth Circuit, settling the parties dispute whether the...
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