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On September 29, 2021, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down a USPTO decision to permit Ex Parte reexamination when “a requester who has repeatedly tried to [IPR] to forward the same arguments.” The [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court created the enhanced damages standard in its 2016 Halo v. Pulse ruling that created the enhanced damages standard. On September 28, 2021, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarified enhanced damages [...]
In May 2013, North Carolina added Article 8 — entitled “Abusive Patent Assertions” — to chapter 75 of the North Carolina General Statutes, which covers consumer protection. Article 8 gives targets of patent trolls standing to sue [...]
A recent case from the Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit suggests that the scope of Section 101 may, depending upon interpretation, have bounds which is much greater than most parties, including practioners and patent owners, [...]
Weide & Miller successfully obtained 57 patents for its clients in the first half of 2020, outpacing the number of patents the firm obtained for clients in 2019.
Weide & Miller filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of its client Lightside Technologies against Westinghouse Electronics for infringement of Lightside’s patent portfolio covering Multi-Format Audio/Visual Production [...]
On January 10, 2020, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirmed the Examiner’s decision in the Ex Parte Reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 9,313,456. Attorneys at Weide & Miller submitted the [...]
2019 was an extremely successful year, with Weide & Miller obtaining the issuance of 101 U.S. utility and design patents for its clients.
Weide & Miller obtains a complete reversal at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Weide & Miller had appealed the examiner’s rejection of all claims in U.S. Application Serial No. 15/057,289, directed to a closed-loop medication monitoring [...]
On March 4, 2019, the Supreme Court resolved an issue on which the various federal circuit courts were split: can a copyright plaintiff bring a lawsuit once they have filed an application for registration with the Copyright [...]
