We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 30, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Rates Tech., Inc. v. Mediatrix Telecom, Inc., Case No. 2011-1384 (Fed. Cir. July 26, 2012) (attached). In a patent infringement suit related to systems for converting existing telephone systems to [...]
We will be discussing one Federal Circuit case and one California Court of Appeals case during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 23, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Wi-Lan, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., Case No. 2011-1626 (Fed. Cir. July 13, 2012) (attached). Wi-LAN's attorneys at Kilpatrick Townsend (formerly Townsend & [...]
We will be discussing two recent, relevant opinions in our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, April 25, 2011. The first case sets forth a new standard for judging contempt in patent cases. The second case deals with the propriety of adding claims in reissue. A brief synopsis of the cases is presented below. [...]