May patent holders enforce their rights on the products of self-replicating technologies, such as replicating seeds, after an authorized sale or does the patent only apply to the original...
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Petitioner Commil USA, LLC (“Commil”) owns a patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,430,395 (“the ’395 patent”), relating to wireless local area networks (“WLANs”). See Brief for Petitioner, Commil USA, LLC at 3-4; see also Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Sys., Inc., 720...
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eBay, Inc. (“eBay”) owns and operates a website that allows buyers to purchase goods either through an auction-style format or at a fixed price via the “Buy it Now” feature. See MercExchange, LLC v. eBay, Inc., 401 F.3d 1323, 1325 (Fed. Cir. 2005)....
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Whether a payment by one company to keep a competitor from entering the market with an identical product is always prohibited, or whether such a payment is permissible where the company...
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Lexmark International, Inc. is a company that makes and sells toner cartridges compatible with its printers. Lexmark International, Inc., v. Impression Products, Inc., No. 14-1617 (Fed. Circuit Feb. 12, 2016) at 9. Lexmark owns several patents on the...
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Three medical school professors from the University of Colorado and Columbia University developed a method to diagnose low levels of cobalamin and folate, two vitamins found in the blood serum of warm...
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Promega Corporation (“Promega”) owns four patents for methods of amplifying particular “short tandem repeats” (“STR”) loci in a DNA strand and has an exclusive license over a fifth method for the same. Promega Corp. v. Life Technologies Corp., No. 10-...
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In April 2011, Apple sued Samsung for infringement of design and utility patents, trademarks, and trade dress. See Apple Inc. v. Samsung Elecs. Co. Ltd., No. CV 5:11-cv-01846, 4 (Fed. Cir. 2015). Apple alleged that certain Samsung products copied Apple...
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Issued on September 19, 2006, United States Patent Number 7,110,936 (“’936 patent”) was thereafter assigned to ComplementSoft, LLC (“ComplementSoft”). SAS Institute, Inc. v. ComplementSoft, LLC., 825 F.3d 1341, 1343 (Fed. Cir. 2016). The ’936 patent...
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The doctrine of laches is an affirmative defense that bars claims by those who unreasonably delay bringing a claim to court, because allowing the claim would unjustly harm the defendant. The Patent Act sets a six-year time limit for the recovery of...