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<title>Android Patent Claims Head To Jury; Google Seeks JMOL</title>
<description>SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys agreed upon a jury charge and special verdict form on May 14 in the second phase of Oracle America Inc.'s dispute with Google Inc.; that day, Google sought judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) that Oracle failed to prove literal patent infringement and that one of the two patents in suit is invalid because of improper broadening (Oracle America Inc. v. Google Inc., No. 10-3561, N.D. Calif.; See 5/2/12, Page 20). </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit Partly Remands Denial Of Relief In Apple Patent Suit</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - Although largely agreeing with a California federal judge's decision to deny a preliminary injunction in a patent dispute over smart phone and tablet technology, a divided Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 14 nonetheless found that plaintiff Apple Inc. might still be entitled to limited relief (Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., No. 12-1105, Fed. Cir.; See 7/22/11, Page 9). </description>
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<title>Apple Wins Sanctions In California Patent Dispute With Samsung</title>
<description>SAN FRANCISCO - Failure by patent infringement defendant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to produce source code within the time limits proscribed by a discovery order resulted in an award of preclusive sanctions on May 4 to plaintiff Apple Inc. (Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., No. 11-1846, N.D. Calif.). </description>
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<title>Judge Reverses Terminating Sanctions Ruling For Allegedly Modified Database</title>
<description>LAS VEGAS - A federal judge in Nevada on May 14 reversed a magistrate judge's recommendation to impose terminating sanctions against defendants in a patent infringement case and ordered the new magistrate judge in the case to conduct an evidentiary hearing based on evidence presented by the parties during the briefing on the defendants' objection (Home Gambling Network Inc., et al. v. Chris Piche, et al., No. 05-cv-00610-DAE-VCF, D. Nev.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66754). </description>
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<title>Apple's Antitrust Counterclaims Against Samsung Survive Dismissal</title>
<description>SAN JOSE - In a patent case related to mobile device technology, a federal judge in California on May14 denied Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s motion to dismiss several of Apple Inc.'s amended counterclaims, including a claim alleging that Samsung made misrepresentations to standards-setting organizations (SSOs) in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, but the judge granted Samsung's motion to dismiss Apple's counterclaim for promissory estoppel, breach of contract and declaratory judgment (Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., et al., No. 11-1846, N.D. Calif.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67102.). </description>
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<title>Sham Litigation Claims Against Wellbutrin XL Manufacturer, Distributor Fail</title>
<description>PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge in Pennsylvania on May 11 granted summary judgment to the producers and distributors of Wellbutrin XL on direct and indirect purchasers' claims that the defendants illegally conspired to prevent generic versions of the drug from entering the American market by filing sham patent infringement lawsuits and a citizen petition (In re: Wellbutrin XL Antitrust Litigation, Nos. 08-2431 [direct], 08-2431 [indirect], E.D. Pa.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66312; See 4/6/09, Page 15). </description>
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<title>Shutterfly: Automatic Stay Should Remain; Kodak May Not Pursue Patent Case</title>
<description>NEW YORK - Online photo sharing company Shutterfly Inc. on May 9 filed a brief in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York opposing bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co.'s motion for relief from the automatic stay, which it seeks to pursue a patent case against Shutterfly, contending that the only conclusion is that Kodak's motion should be denied (In Re: Eastman Kodak Company, No. 12-10202, Chapter 11, S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.). </description>
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<title>Claim Construction Was Erroneous, Federal Circuit Says In Patent Case</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - Because an Illinois federal judge erred in the construction of disputed patent claim terms "system memory means," "matching" and "automated exchange," the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 7 vacated in part and remanded in part a final judgment of noninfringement (Chicago Board Options Exchange Inc. v. International Securities Exchange LLC, Nos. 11-1267, 1298, Fed. Cir.). </description>
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<title>Apple, RIM Win Transfer, Severance Of Hawaii Federal Patent Action</title>
<description>HONOLULU - A Hawaii-based patent plaintiff will need to litigate its claims in at least three different federal courts, a Hawaii federal judge ruled May 9 (GPNE Corp. v. Apple Inc., et al., No. 11-426, D. Hawaii; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 65026). </description>
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<title>Mandamus Petition Granted; Patent Case Remanded To Texas Federal Court</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - Eight patent infringement defendants saw their petition for a writ of mandamus granted May 4 by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which directed a Texas federal court on remand to determine whether the claims arise "out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences" pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20(a) (In re: EMC Corporation, Misc. No. 100, Fed. Cir.). </description>
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<title>European Ban Won't Be Extended To U.S. Patent Litigation</title>
<description>SEATTLE - A Washington federal judge on May 14 issued a preliminary anti-suit injunction barring Motorola Inc. from attempting to enforce relief it won May 2 in European patent litigation with Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft Corp. v. Motorola Inc., No. 10-1823, W.D. Wash.). </description>
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<title>Panel: Ample Evidence Supported Patent Invalidity Ruling In Facebook's Favor</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - A product embodying the technology disclosed in a network communication patent was offered for sale prior to the patent's critical date, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled May 8, upholding a lower court verdict and judgment that found the patent to be invalid as anticipated (Leader Technologies Inc. v. Facebook Inc., No. 2011-1366, Fed. Cir.; 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 9347; See 3/21/11, Page 22). </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit Affirms Obviousness Finding In Hemodialysis Patent Case</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a divided ruling issued May 17, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) did not erroneously disregard a related Federal Circuit ruling in upholding the rejection of a patent upon re-examination (In re: Baxter International Inc., No. 11-1073, Fed. Cir.). </description>
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<title>Companies Back Bid Of R.J. Reynolds For Review Of Patent Definiteness Ruling</title>
<description>Case: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Star Scientific, Inc., No. 11-1182, U.S. Sup.; See 4/16/12, Page 18. </description>
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<title>Inter Partes Re-Examinations Are Contested Cases, Patent Holder Argues</title>
<description>Case: Abbott Laboratories v. Cordis Corporation, No. 12-1244, Fed. Cir. Appellant brief: Filed May 7 by Cordis CorpAppellant brief available 78-120521-010B </description>
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<title>Supreme Court Unanimously Reverses Hatch-Waxman Counterclaim Ruling</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - Generic drug manufacturers may employ the Hatch-Waxman Act's counterclaim provision - known as a Section viii statement - to force correction of an inaccurate label when the brand-name drug's description overstates a particular method of use, the U.S. Supreme Court held April 17 (Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. v. Novo Nordisk A/S/ and Novo Nordisk Inc., No. 10-844, U.S. Sup.; See 12/19/11, Page 4). </description>
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<title>Supreme Court: De Novo Review Proper For New Evidence In Patent Cases</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on April 18 rejected a call by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) for stricter evidentiary rules and an elevated standard of review in challenges to adverse patentability rulings (David J. Kappos v. Gilbert P. Hyatt, No. 10-1219, U.S. Sup.). </description>
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<title>11th Circuit Upholds Reverse Payment Settlement Against FTC Challenge</title>
<description>ATLANTA - Reverse payment settlements between the holder of a drug patent and generic manufacturers of the drug did not constitute an unfair restraint on trade in violation of Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled April 25 in affirming the dismissal of the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit (Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al., No. 10-12729, 11th Cir.; 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 8377). </description>
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<title>Competitor Fails To Allege SanDisk's Licensing Scheme Violates Antitrust Law</title>
<description>OAKLAND, Calif. - PNY Technologies Inc. failed to sufficiently allege that SanDisk Corp. misused the market power inherent in its patent portfolio in the flash memory technology upstream market to demand multitiered licensing and royalties in the downstream markets, a federal judge in California ruled April 20 in dismissing PNY's antitrust complaint (PNY Technologies, Inc. v. SanDisk Corporation, No. C-11-04689, N.D. Calif.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55965). </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit Sets Date For Arguments In Remanded Gene Patent Case</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - For a second time, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will weigh in on a dispute over the patentability of diagnostic test kits used to identify an inherited hereditary risk of breast and ovarian cancer, according to an April 30 order (Association for Molecular Pathology et al. v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Myriad Genetics Inc., No. 10-1406, Fed. Cir.; See 4/2/12, Page 6). </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit Affirms: Apple ITunes Site Didn't Infringe Patent</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Texas federal judge properly acquitted Apple Inc. of patent infringement allegations levied by a patent holder in connection with the iTunes website and iPod listening device, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled April 25 (ZapMedia Services Inc. v. Apple Inc., No. 11-1546, Fed. Cir.; 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 8273). </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit Affirms Noninfringement Finding In Sippy Cup Patent Case</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Wisconsin judge did not err in awarding a defendant summary judgment of noninfringement on grounds that an accused sippy cup lacks a limitation claimed by the patent in suit, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled March 30 (Learning Curve Brands v. Munchkin Inc., No. 11-1036, Fed. Cir.). </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit Affirms Dismissal Of Dispute Over Generic Contraceptive Drug</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - A New York federal judge did not err in granting generic drug manufacturers a judgment of noninfringement on the pleadings for their abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) related to only one use for the drug in question and not the combination of uses claimed by the patent in suit, a divided Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled April 16 (Bayer Schering Pharma AG v. Lupin Ltd. et al., Nos. 11-1143, -1228, Fed. Cir.). </description>
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<title>Florida Judge Grants Dismissal In Dispute Over Dog Leash Patent</title>
<description>TAMPA, Fla. - A Florida federal judge on April 13 found that exercising personal jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment patent infringement defendant would violate due process requirements (Paws Aboard LLC v. Pietro DiDonato, No. 11-1978, M.D. Fla.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52061). </description>
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<title>Delaware Federal Judge Denies Dismissal, Sanctions In Patent Case</title>
<description>WILMINGTON, Del. - A request for dismissal of a dispute over Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader was denied April 25 by a Delaware federal judge, who deemed the motion premature (Technology Innovations LLC v. Amazon.com Inc., No. 11-690, D. Del.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57853). </description>
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<title>New York Judge Grants Rule 11 Sanctions In Patent Dispute</title>
<description>NEW YORK - Deeming a patent infringement plaintiff's claims "not objectively reasonable" and "simply not close on the merits," a New York federal judge on April 11 granted a prevailing defendant's motion for sanctions pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 (Source Vagabond Systems Ltd. v. Hydrapak Inc., No. 11-5379, S.D. N.Y.). </description>
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<title>Petitioner: Supreme Court Should Decide Standard Of Review In Patent Rulings</title>
<description>Case: Research &amp; Diagnostic Systems, Inc., and Techne Corporation v. Streck, Inc., No. 11-1212, U.S. Sup. </description>
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<title>Syringe Maker Says All Claim Construction Issues Should Be Reviewed</title>
<description>Case: Becton, Dickinson and Company v. Retractable Technologies, Inc., et al., No. 11-1278, U.S. Sup.; 2012 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 1652; See 4/2/12, Page 20. </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit Says Invalidity Findings In Drug Patent Case Proper</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - A dispute over patents relating to the administration of the chemotherapy cancer drug Taxotere was properly resolved with findings of patent invalidity and unenforceability, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled April 9 (Aventis Pharma S.A. and Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC v. Hospira Inc. and Apotex Inc., No. 11-1018, Fed. Cir.; 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 7095). </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit Denies En Banc Review In Malpractice Case</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - A December summary order affirming dismissal of legal malpractice claims stemming from the prosecution of several video-streaming patents will not be reheard by an en banc Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, according to an April 11 order (Memorylink Corp. v. Motorola Inc., No. 10-1533, Fed. Cir.). </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit Affirms Claim Construction In Tech Patent Case</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - A stipulated judgment of noninfringement in a dispute over smart card technology will stand, thanks to an April 11 ruling by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Smartmetric Inc. v. American Express Company, No. 11-1473, Fed. Cir.). </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit Reverses Construction, Summary Judgment In Patent Suit</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, D.C. - Citing an erroneous construction of the non-claim term "perforated," a divided Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 3 reversed a New York judge's summary judgment of noninfringement and remanded the dispute for further proceedings (Advanced Fiber Technologies v. J&amp;L Fiber Services Inc., No. 11-1243, Fed. Cir.; 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 6641). </description>
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<title>Cipro Purchasers Tell Calif. High Court That Reverse Payments Violate State Law</title>
<description>SAN FRANCISCO - Purchasers of Cipro on March 27 filed their opening brief urging the California Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeal's ruling that pay-for-delay settlement agreements between the manufacturer of a branded antibiotic and its generic competitors do not violate California antitrust laws (In re Cipro Cases I &amp; II, No. S198616, Calif. Sup.). </description>
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<title>Missouri Federal Judge Agrees To Transfer Patent Case To California</title>
<description>ST. LOUIS - Citing the convenience of the parties, a Missouri federal judge on April 6 agreed to transfer a patent infringement dispute over an information processing method to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Compression Technology Solutions LLC v. EMC Corporation, et al., No. 11-1579, E.D. Mo.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48887). </description>
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<title>Pennsylvania Federal Judge Dismisses Patent Case Over Jurisdiction</title>
<description>HARRISBURG, Pa. - Finding that a patent infringement plaintiff has failed to meet the three requirements for specific jurisdiction set forth in Zippo Mfg. Co. v. Zippo Dot Com (952 F. Supp. 1119, 1122-23 [W.D. Pa. 1997]), a Pennsylvania federal judge on April 10 dismissed the case (Surface Preparation Technologies v. Jamaco Industries LLC, et al., No. 11-1978, M.D. Pa.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50146). </description>
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<title>Patent Complaint To Be Amended, California Federal Judge Rules</title>
<description>SAN DIEGO - Allegations of indirect patent infringement were dismissed March 29 by a California federal judge, who granted the plaintiff leave to amend its complaint (Novatel Wireless Inc. v. Franklin Wireless Corp., et al., No. 10-2530, S.D. Calif.). </description>
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<title>Amazon Denied Dismissal Of Patent Claims In Delaware Federal Case</title>
<description>WILMINGTON, Del. - Assertions by patent infringement defendants Amazon.com Inc. and Zappos Inc. that an April 2011 complaint filed against them fails to state a claim were rejected April 4 by a Delaware federal judge, who deemed dismissal "premature" (Walker Digital LLC v. Fandango Inc., et al., No. 11-313, D. Del.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48080). </description>
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<title>Facebook Answers Yahoo! Patent Complaint; Levies Counterclaims</title>
<description>SAN FRANCISCO - In an answer filed April 3 in California federal court, Facebook Inc. fired back at claims of patent infringement levied last month by Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo! Inc. v. Facebook Inc., No. 12-1212, N.D. Calif.). </description>
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<title>Answer Filed In Minnesota Federal Dispute Over Thermostat Technology</title>
<description>MINNEAPOLIS - A defendant fired back at patent infringement plaintiff Honeywell International Inc. on April 12, calling the underlying allegations "a bald effort . . . to inhibit competition from a promising new company and product" (Honeywell International Inc. v. Nest Labs Inc., No. 12-299, D. Minn.). </description>
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<title>Federal Circuit's Analysis Of Patent Definiteness Needs Review, R.J. Reynolds Says</title>
<description>Case: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Star Scientific, Inc., No. 11-1182, U.S. Sup.; 2012 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 1265. </description>
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<title>Appellee's Arguments In Copyright, Patent Case Are Smokescreen, Appellants Say</title>
<description>Case: Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc., and Mark T. Pappas, No. 11-2250, 4th Cir.; See 3/19/12, Page 23. </description>
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