In the case of Arista Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Sys., Inc. (Federal Circuit, November 9, 2018), the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressed the issue of whether assignee estoppel applies to prevent an inventor/assignor from [...]
Weide & Miller issued 34 patents in the first half of 2018.
In the case of WesternGeco Ltd. v. Ion Geophysical Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit’s rule against extraterritorial lost profits for infringement of U.S. Patents. The Supreme Court ruled that 35 U.S.C. § 271(f), [...]
In a close 5-4 decision in SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu, the Supreme Court found that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s previous practice of agreeing to review some challenged claims and deny review of others in [...]
The America Invents Act created a new vehicle for challengers to attach patents: the Inter-Parties Reexamination or “IPR”. In the case of Oil States Energy Services LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, Oil States contended that the [...]
Weide & Miller is listed among the best law firms in the United States by U.S. News. Weide & Miller is ranked Tier 1 for Patent Law and Patent Litigation for 2018.
Weide & Miller issued 87 patents in 2017, leading Nevada-based firms.
In the case of In re Brunetti, a panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a finding of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the panel determining the Lanham Act (trademark law) prohibition [...]
A long-accepted rule in U.S. patent law was that to find direct infringement of a method claim, performance of all claimed steps must be attributable to a single entity. Under prior case law, the actions of a [...]
In accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 1400, a patent infringement suit may only be brought in a jurisdiction where the defendant resides or where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established [...]
