Judges won't readily dismiss a lawsuit. Usually, they will give the plaintiff several chances to correct flaws in a complaint before dismissing with prejudice. It's especially rare to see a judge dismiss a patent suit with prejudice because the infringement allegation is so weak that the patentee has no chance of success. These rare cases [...]
Pleading Infringement does not Require Claim Element-by-Element Pleadings and Proving Internet Publications that are Prior Art Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 26, 2021 will be a presentation by Angelo Gaz and discussion of a CAFC finding that pleading infringement does not require claim chart level assertions and a PTAB finding that [...]
Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist. Ct. 141 S.Ct. 1017 (2021) For our discussion, we will analyze how the Supreme Court expanded personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants. The majority held that a Court’s specific jurisdiction standard includes suits that sufficiently “relate to” a defendant’s forum contacts, even in the absence of a "causal [...]
We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, June 18, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. In re Bill of Lading Transmission and Processing System Patent Litigation, Case Nos. 2010-1493, -1494, -1495, -1496; 2011-1101, -1102 (Fed. Cir. June 7, 2012) (attached). In this case R + [...]