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Eastern Texas Still Patent Case Champ, According to Lex Machina Data

The Eastern District of Texas is still the overwhelming forum of choice in patent litigation, with 37 percent of all patent cases filed there last year.
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The Recorder

Eastern Texas Still Patent Case Champ, According to Lex Machina Data

Overall patent filings dropped in 2016, a trend analysts attributed to a change in federal pleading requirements in December 2015.
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The Recorder

Apple Snuffs Out NPE Patents That Almost Cost Company $533M

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday rejected three mobile payment patents that led an Eastern District of Texas jury to hit Apple with a $533 million verdict in 2015.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Patents and the AIA in a US Supreme Court With Gorsuch

Patents have had unusual attention from the U.S. Supreme Court recently. In addition to high-profile cases like Alice v. CLS Bank International, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014), that dramatically changes the landscape for technology-based patents, Samsung v. Apple, 137 S. Ct. 429, 431 (2016), that has the potential to dramatically change the landscape for damages in design patent infringement, and Life Technologies v. Promega, 2017 U.S. LEXIS 1428 (U.S. Feb. 22, 2017), which tests the limits of liability under U.S. law for infringement abroad, the court is poised to consider whether the post-grant procedures of the America Invents Act (AIA) are constitutional.
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Legaltech News

What to Make of Google-Uber Spat Over Driverless Cars

Last week, Alphabet subsidiary Waymo LLC sued Uber Technologies Inc., alleging stolen trade secrets and patent infringement.
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National Law Journal

The Ball Is Back in Judge Koh's Court In the Samsung v. Apple Patent Row

OPINION: Judge Lucy Koh should balance innovators' needs with those of patent holders.
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The Recorder

Four Tips for Winning IP Trials From Judges and Master Litigators

The file cabinet Robert Van Nest used as part of a demonstration at trial against Oracle was thoroughly vetted, the Bay Area litigator said Thursday at a panel discussion on breaking down complex IP cases for juries.
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The Legal Intelligencer

The Hartford Ins. Grp. v. Kamara, PICS Case No. 17-0273 (Pa. Super. Feb. 10, 2017) Olson, J. (16 pages).

By | February 24, 2017
A workers' compensation carrier could pursue claim against third-party tortfeasors by, instead of bringing a subgrogation claim, asserting the claim on behalf of the injured employee to establish the tortfeasors' liability to the injured employee. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.
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Legaltech News

Automation in Focus: SmartShell's Shot at Automated Patent Processing

While TurboPatent's SmartShell can speed patent processing with automation, a human touch may still be required to ensure operations go smoothly.
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Delaware Law Weekly

Actavis' Generic Opioid Infringed on 2 Patents, Judge Rules

A Delaware federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Actavis Laboratories' generic version of Zohydro ER infringed on two patents for the powerful opioid, held by a Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc. subsidiary.
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