Expert Testimony Not Always Necessary to Establish Prima Facie Obviousness Case in Inter Partes Review In Belden Inc. v. Berk-Tek LLC, Appeal Nos. 2014-1575, 2014-1576, on appeal from an IPR,…
The New York Times reports that Congress has passed a $1.8 trillion package of spending and tax cuts which includes a two-year-long suspension of the medical device tax and a permanent extension of…
On December 15, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision that a computerized gaming patent owned by John Stephenson, allegedly a competitor…
Partner Ryan Melnick and Tate Scott, CEO of KFx Medical were recently featured in the San Diego Business Journal discussing the recent success in a patent infringement case. Infringement Case…
Partner Amy Chun was featured in an Inside Counsel article titled “How the USPTO’s ‘analysis paralysis’ changed the software patent game.” She delved into the issues surrounding software patents and §101…
Knobbe Martens attorneys Sheila Swaroop, Joseph Reisman and Scott Seeley recently authored “Intellectual Property Issues Under The Trans-Pacific Partnership,” which was featured in the publication Biosimilar Development. Excerpt: On November 5,…
Privacy law has traditionally focused on an individual’s right to privacy vis-à-vis a government’s physical intrusion. Privacy law, however, has morphed in recent years to address concerns of the digital…
San Diego Managing Partner Mike Fuller was recently quoted in Dan Lonkevich’s article, “Federal Circuit judge’s ‘strange’ fix for Mayo, Alice rulings in opinion on denial of en banc Sequenom…
A Nobel Biocare patent relating to the NobelActive® line of dental implants was infringed by the Neodent® DriveCM™ implant, sold by Straumann® subsidiary Instradent® and manufactured by JJGC Indústria e…
Yesterday, in MCM Portfolio LLC v. Hewlett-Packard Company, the Federal Circuit found inter partes reviews constitutional. HP filed for inter partes review (IPR) of several of the claims of MCM’s…
