In late January, I had the opportunity to attend Michigan’s 40th Annual Intellectual Property Law Summer Institute on Michigan’s Mackinac Island (a great location). As with every time I have attended Michigan’s IP Summer Institute, it was an excellent conference. One particularly interesting session was a judge’s panel including Hon. Robert Holmes Bell of
August 2014
Octane Fitness May Require a Summary Judgment Motion for an Exceptional Case Findings
By R. David Donoghue on
Posted in Patent Litigation Tips
Federal Circuit Judge Dyk, sitting by designation in the E.D. Texas, recently denied a 35 USC Section 285 exceptional case motion in Stragent, LLC v. Intel Corp., No. 11 C 421, Slip Op. (E.D. Tex. Aug. 6, 2014) (Dyk, J.). The opinion begins with a thorough and very useful explanation of the history of …
Disturbing Retail Patent Litigation Statistics Confirm What Retailers Already Know
By R. David Donoghue on
Posted in Industry Issues, Patent Litigation Tips
The following is a post by my colleague Anthony J. Fuga. Anthony and I regularly work together defending retailers against patent trolls.
MarketWatch’s recent blog post titled “Why retailers became a top target of patent trolls” contained a good, albeit short, rundown of some of the difficulties retailers are facing. Unfortunately, much of the…