Category: patent infringement

Amazon Brand Registry

Tuesday | December 22, 2020By Shane Skwarekintellectual property patent attorney patent claim patent claims patent infringement patent law patent lawyer Patent Protection

What is Amazon Brand Registry? Brand owners work hard to protect their intellectual property (IP), including their trademarked brands. Amazon has recently become one of the largest companies in the world by providing a marketplace for sellers and buyers to…

How to Design Around and Avoid Patent Infringement

Wednesday | July 22, 2020By Shane Skwarekpatent claim patent infringement patent law

When a company is in the early stages of product development, a freedom to operate search may reveal potentially problematic patents. To avoid lengthy and expensive patent litigation, the company should at least consider potential modifications to the product’s…

Early Dismissal on § 101 Grounds Is Improper When Claims Need Construction

Tuesday | August 20, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling patent infringement

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in MyMail v. ooVoo, No. 2018-1758, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 24430 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 15, 2019), that a court must adopt a non-moving party's claim constructions or otherwise resolve claim construction…

Computer-Centric Details Critical to Success in Uniloc Decision

Monday | June 3, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling patent claims patent infringement

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit confirmed the invalidation of claims in two patents, and reversed the district court’s finding that two other patents in the same family were invalid for lack of subject-matter ineligibility, in Uniloc…

Win Some, Lose Some

Saturday | May 4, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling patent claims patent infringement

In February of 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a nonprecedential opinion finding that claims involving an improvement to a GUI for software that enabled traders to place orders at a particular price level (not…

Is Everyone Skeptical of the U.S. Patent Office’s New Guidelines?

Wednesday | April 10, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling patent claims patent infringement

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently cast doubt on the 2019 Updated Guidelines on Subject-Matter Eligibility issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In Fed. Circuit Cleveland Clinic Found. v. True Health Diagnostics LLC, No.…

Top 5 Reasons for Outsourcing Legal Services

Friday | March 8, 2019By Shane Skwarekcourt ruling patent claims patent infringement

The best in-house legal counsel does not just outsource legal work for cheaper foreign labor. They also outsource legal work for expert work done domestically. This transfer of work is called legal process outsourcing. The most recent trend in this space…

Federal Circuit Raises the Bar for Motions to Dismiss on § 101 Grounds

Thursday | August 17, 2017By James Watsoncourt case patent infringement subject-matter eligibility

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the grant of a motion to dismiss on subject-matter ineligibility grounds in Visual Memory v. Nvidia Corp. , No. 2016-2254, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 15187 (Fed. Cir. Aug 15, 2017). The patent claims…

Federal Circuit Raises the Bar for Motions to Dismiss on § 101 Grounds

Thursday | August 17, 2017By Shane Skwarekcourt case patent infringement subject-matter eligibility

BASCOM’s Nonstandard Combination of Known Software Elements Implemented on Generic Computer Hardware Confirmed Patentable

Wednesday | June 29, 2016By James Watsoncourt ruling patent eligibility patent infringement software patent

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of a motion to dismiss BASCOM Global Internet Services’ patent infringement claims on the grounds that the claims recite patent-eligible subject matter on June 27, 2016. The Federal District Court for…