A district court has denied a patent owner’s motion to strike wholesale a defendant’s affirmative defense of invalidity. The key issue in the motion to strike was the application of the estoppel ...

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The Northern District of Iowa recently held that a defendant’s motion for partial summary judgment of invalidity was barred after the PTAB issued final written decisions, regardless of when the motion ...

Experts say people who are temporarily unable to work should have their job kept open so as to prevent them from falling out of the job market permanently. They say a move in this direction would save ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provides invalidity tools via inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR), but which route is better? One may consider important factors ...

Counsel at three firms reveal the tools they’re using to generate patent invalidity claim charts and why they’re making investments in the technology Law firms say they are testing software and ...

The possibility of invalidity--and an ensuing market competition--suggests that when an innovator's capability (e.g., cost of production) is private information, there is potential value to an ...

A contributor to the National Social Security Authority (NSSA)’s Pensions and Other Benefits Scheme, who has become permanently incapable of working due to a physical or mental illness, disability or ...