For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, August 14, 2017, we will discuss the following cases: Enzo Biochem v. Applera, (Federal Circuit 2017) (available here). Enzo and Applera had been involved in litigation over patents for genetic testing and labeling since 2004. In a new round of litigation, plaintiff argued under the doctrine of equivalence, that [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 10, 2017, we will discuss the following cases: Adjustacam LLC v. Sakar International Inc. (Fed. Cir. July 5, 2017) (available here). AdjustaCam is the exclusive licensee to a patent claiming a camera “rotatably attached . . . about a first axis of rotation.” Newegg produced [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, June 12, 2017, we will discuss the following cases: TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC (Supreme Court, March 27, 2017) (available here). Kraft Foods sued TC Heartland for patent infringement in Delaware. The district court denied TC’s motion to dismiss or transfer venue. TC [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, February 27, 2017, we will discuss the following: Life Technologies Corp et. al. v. Promega Corp., No. 14-1538 (S.Ct. February 22, 2017) (available here). Life Technologies sublicensed Promega's patent that related to a toolkit for genetic testing. Life Technologies then shipped one of the five components of [...]
At our next SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, December 5, 2016, we will discuss the following: Antonick v. Electronic Arts, Inc. (Fed. Cir. November 22, 2016) (available here). Plaintiff Antonick developed the computer code for EA's Madden Football game for the Apple II computer. EA later released versions of the game for Sega and Nintendo. [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, we will discuss the following: AMDOCS (ISRAEL) LIMITED v. OPENET TELECOM, INC., OPENET TELECOM LTD. (Fed Cir. Nov. 1, 2016) (available here). In a 61 page opinion, a split federal circuit holds that 4 Amdocs patents were erroneously found ineligible under Alice. Judge Plager authored the opinion [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, October 31, 2016, we will discuss the following: Direct Technologies, LLC v. Electronic Arts, Inc. (9th Cir. September 6, 2016) (available here). Electronic Arts is the maker of a game called The Sims. EA contracted with a company to develop a flash drive in the shape of [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, October 24, 2016, we will discuss the following: Poly America, L.P. v. API Industries, Inc. (Fed Cir. October 14, 2016) (available here). Plaintiff brought a patent infringement action, where the district court found that the patent and prosecution history "contain clear and unequivocal statements that the [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, October 17, 2016, we will discuss the following: McRO v. Bandai et al. (Fed Cir. Sept. 13, 2016) (available here). We previously covered this case at the district court level here. It was one of the first substantive Section 101 cases following Alice. At the district [...]
Update: The date has been changed to October 17, 2016. We will have a visiting speaker on October 10, 2016. For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, October 17, 2016, we will discuss the following: McRO v. Bandai et al. (Fed Cir. Sept. 13, 2016) (available here). We previously covered this case at [...]