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Federal Circuit Clarifies That USPTO Can Only Consider Prior Art Found to Raise a Substantial New Question of Patentability in Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings

Although under the America Invents Act, as of September 16, 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) ceased accepting new petitions for inter partes reexaminations, there are still many that are pending. In Belkin International, Inc. v. Kappos, No. 2012-1090 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 2, 2012), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit […]

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Ninth Circuit Prevents Enforcement of German Injunction of Patents Under FRAND Licensing Obligation

On September 28, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion touching on an issue that has engendered increasing debate in recent years — the availability of injunctions for patents committed to a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) license. FRAND license requirements have become common place with standard setting organizations […]

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On June 13, the nonprofit corporation that runs the Internet made public a list of over 1,900 new generic top-level domain ("gTLD") names that may be approved for actual use early in 2013. The list can be found at ICANN’s web site at: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en. These include company specific domains (for example, .amazon, .macys, and .nike); […]

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Induced Infringement of Method Claims Can Be Found Even When No Single Party Performs All of the Claimed Steps

(September 7, 2012). On Friday, August 31, 2012, the Federal Circuit issued its much anticipated en banc decision in Akamai Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., and McKesson Technologies, Inc. v. Epic Systems Corp., No. 2009-1372, -1380, -1416, -1417, 2010-1291, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 18532 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 31, 2012)(collectively “Akamai”). The Akamai […]