By Thomas F. Zuber and Sarah S. Brooks of Zuber & Taillieu
The Federal Circuit recently clarified several aspects of § 1920’s allowances for a prevailing party to charge its costs against the losing party. In In re Ricoh Co., Ltd., 661 F.3d 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2011), the Federal Circuit upheld the use of cost-sharing agreements over default statutory rules, allowed the… More...
Holding: Microsoft Corp. (“Microsoft”)and TomTom N.V. (“TomTom”) have settled the patent infringement cases brought by Microsoft before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and the International Trade Commission (“ITC”) and by TomTom in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Under the settlement agreement,… More...
Holding: Boston Scientific Corp. (“BSC”) has announced that it will pay $50 million to settle a dispute with Dr. Bruce Saffron, who claims Boston Scientific infringed his patented technology in U.S. Patent No. 5,653,760 (the "'760 patent"). On July 9, 2009, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas… More...
Holding: In this long-running patent suit involving memory chips, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has entered final judgment against Korean company Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. and its affiliates Hynix Semiconductor America Inc., Hynix Semiconductor U.K. Ltd., and Hynix Semiconductor Deutschland GmbH (collectively "Hynix") In particular, the judgment… More...
Holding: A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas returned a verdict finding products made by Samsung Electronics Ltd. willfully infringed two patents for plasma display technology held by Tokyo-based Pioneer Corp. Specifically, the jury awarded Pioneer more than $59 million for lost profits and royalties,… More...
Holding: Zoltar Satellite Alarm Systems, Inc. ("Zoltar") and Motorola, Inc. settled their dispute over patents relating to a “911” emergency locating feature for cellular phones, otherwise known as "Self-Locating Remote Monitoring Systems." Specifically, on September 22, 2008, both parties filed a stipulation of dismissal stating that all claims, counterclaims and defenses… More...
Holding: The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced on July 18, 2008 that in a consent order approved by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the owners of an invention promotion operation have agreed to pay $10 million in consumer redress to settle FTC charges that they deceived… More...
Holding: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas denied Boston Scientific Corp.’s (“BSC”) motion for a new trial after a jury awarded $501.26 million in actual damages and prejudgment interest to a medical doctor who owned a patent relating to drug-eluting stent. BSC had asked the district court… More...
Holding: A jury sitting in the Delaware district court found that Abraxis Bioscience’s drug Abraxane literally infringed Elan Pharmaceutical’s patent relating to metastatic breast cancer treatment, awarding the patentee damages in the amount of $55.23 million and fixing the applicable royalty rate used to calculate damages at 6 percent. The jury… More...
Holding: U.S. drug maker Pfizer, Inc. and generics manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. of India and certain of its affiliates agreed to settle substantially all their patent litigation worldwide involving Lipitor, the world’s most-prescribed cholesterol-lowering medicine. Under the terms of the agreement, Ranbaxy will have a license to sell generic versions of… More...
Holding: A jury sitting in a district court in Oregon awarded a total of $14.7 million to Smith & Nephew, Inc. after finding that its rival medical device maker Arthrex, Inc. had infringed its ‘557 patent on a line of suture anchors. Specifically, the jury found that Arthrex indirectly infringed the… More...
