• In re FTX Trading Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-13
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | E-Commerce | Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ramona D. Elliot, P. Matthew Sutko, Frederick Gaston Hall, Sumi K. Sakata, Department of Justice, Executive Office for United States Trustees, Washington, DC; Andrew R. Vara, Joseph J. McMahon, Jr., Benjamin A. Hackman, Juliet M. Sarkessian, Department of Justice, Office of the United States Trustee, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Adam G. Landis, Kimberly A. Brown, Matthew R. Pierce, Landis Rath & Cobb LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew G. Dietderich, James L. Bromley, Brian D. Glueckstein, Alexa J. Kranzley, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY for appellees.

    Case Number: 22-11068 (JTD)

    District court was required to certify appeal of bankruptcy court order directly to the court of appeals where the order involved a purely question of law for which there was no controlling decision from the circuit court or Supreme Court.

  • Jackson v. NuVasive, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-13
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen J. Kraftschik, Polsinelli PC, Wilmington, DE; Thomas Gemmell, Polsinelli PC, Chicago, IL; Darren E. Donnelly, Polsinelli LLP, San Francisco, CA; Aaron M. Levine, Polsinelli PC, Houston, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Daniel M. Silver, Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Colin G. Cabral, James R. Anderson, Proskauer Rose LLP, Boston, MA; Jessica M. Griffith, Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant.

    Case Number: 21-53-RGA

    Court declined to adopt plaintiff's proposal to construe disputed patent term by its plain and ordinary meaning, where the definition advanced by plaintiff was merely functional in nature and there was no evidence that a person of ordinary skill in the art would understand the meaning of the disputed term.

  • Ecobee, Inc. v. EcoFactor, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-13
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thad. J. Bracegirdle, Andrea S. Brooks, Wilks, Lukoff & Bracegirdle LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jeffrey L. Moyer, Travis S. Hunter, Arun J. Mohan, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 21-323 (MN)

    Disputed patent terms were not indefinite because a person of ordinary skill in the art would understand their plain and ordinary meaning and how the terms performed the function of the claimed invention.

  • Huntley v. VBit Tech. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Fallon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-1164-CFC-SRF

    Court granted motion for leave to amend securities complaint where no scheduling order had been entered in the case and no defendant had raised a claim that amendment would result in undue prejudice.

  • Novartis Pharm. Corp. v. HEC Pharm Co., Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Alexandra M. Joyce, Fish & Richardson P.C.; Jane M. Love, Ph.D., Robert Trenchard, Andrew P. Blythe, Christine L. Ranney, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Stamatios Stamoulis, Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC; Mieke K. Malmberg, Paul J. Skiermont, Sarah E. Spires, Steven J. Udick, Kevin P. Potere, Skiermont Derby LLP for defendant.

    Case Number: 20-133-GBW

    Court declined defendants' more limited proposed claim constructions that included negative limitations which had no basis in the intrinsic record.

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  • Diamond State Door, LLC v. Diamond State Pole Bldg., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Trademarks
    Industry: Construction | Retail
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas H. Kramer, Anthony N. Delcollo, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John C. Andrade, Elio Battista, Jr., Kyle F. Dunkle, Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, P.A., Dover, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 21 -1258-RGA

    Geographically descriptive mark was not protectable where lack of advertising, limited customer base, and lack of evidence of consumer confusion demonstrated that the mark had not acquired a secondary meaning.

  • Galderma Labs. L.P. v. Lupin Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Jeremy A. Tigan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew J. Cochran, Gerald J. Flattman, Jr., Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Megan C. Haney, John C. Phillips, Jr., Phillips, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adrianne C. Rose, Joseph T. Jaros, Natasha L. White, William A. Rakoczy, Rakoczy Molino Mazzochi Siwik LLP, Chicago, IL for defendants.

    Case Number: 21-cv-1710-SB

    Court could clarify claim constructions from prior litigation involving the same patents-in-suit even if patentee acted as its own lexicographer, but only narrow clarification was necessary for one of the disputed terms.

  • Lamplight Licensing LLC v. ABB Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy C. Chong, Chong Law Firm, PA, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Benjamin J. Schladweiler, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew R. Sommer, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, McLean, VA for defendant.

    Case Number: 22-418-CFC

    Court possessed inherent authority to investigate plaintiff's possible efforts to defraud the court even after plaintiff voluntarily moved to dismiss its lawsuit.

  • Election Sys. & Software, LLC v. Smartmatic USA Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-23
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia S. Rogowski, Rogowski Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Robert M. Evans, Jr., Michael J. Hartley, Michael H. Durbin, T. Hunter Brown, Lewis Rice, LLP, St. Louis, MO for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian A. Biggs, Angela C. Whitesell, Erin E. Larson, DLA Piper, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Larissa S. Bifano, DLA Piper, LLP, Boston, MA; Richard Mulloy, DLA PIper, LLP, San Diego, CA; Zachary Loney, DLA PIper, LLP, Austin, TX for defendant.

    Case Number: 18-cv-1259-RGA

    Patent infringement claims were dismissed where asserted claims consisted solely of abstract ideas integral to the voting process and contained no new inventive concept.

  • Mellaconic IP LLC v. Timeclock Plus, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-05-23
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew S. Curfman, Howard Wemow, Sand, Sebolt & Wernow Co., LPA, Canton, OH for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jimmy C. Chong, Chong Law Firm, PA, Wilmington, DE

    Case Number: 22-244-CFC

    Court possessed inherent authority to demand production of documents that might evidence potential fraud committed upon the court even though plaintiff had moved to voluntarily dismiss the case.