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In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overruled a long-standing precedent relating to willful patent infringement. In Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmBH v. Dana Corp., 383 F.3d 1337, 1341 (Fed. Cir. 2004) ("Knorr-Bremse"), the Federal Circuit abolished the negative inference that an opinion of counsel was or would have been unfavorable if an alleged infringer fails to produce or obtain an exculpatory opinion of counsel in response to a charge of willful patent infringement. -
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently held in Great Northern v. Henry Molded Products. -
Does a patent mean more than it says, or more accurately, does the protection afforded by a patent exceed the liter. -
There was a time when all U.S. business competitors and markets were domestic, and we only needed to protect our te. -
Prior art is the mass of pre-existing knowledge that an invention must distinguish over to qualify for a patent. Distinguishing over "prior art" often leads to creative ways to express or define an invention, but the threshold question is: What actually constitutes prior art? -
Design patents are rarely encountered in the chemical process industry and yet they constitute a significant portion of the patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The proportion is slowly increasing, with approximately one design patent now being granted for every ten utility patents. -
Patent infringement lawsuits are generally brought against parties that manufacture, use or sell, the patented invention without the patent owner's permission. Patent infringement can also occur when someone other has simply offered the invention for sale without the patent owner's permission. Sometimes in fact it takes very little to show that an offer has been made. -
As the economic power of patents continues to grow, time-honored beliefs in the virtues of the patent system and the rights of patent holders have come under increasing scrutiny, and accusations of abuses of the patent system are increasingly prevalent. The latest example appears in a recent decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the nation's leading patent court. -
Like their software predecessors in the 1980s and their fallen Internet brethren of the 1990s, managers of financial products and services are entering a brave new world where management of intellectual property assets has become vital to protecting their bottom line. This new management challenge is a result of the steady expansion by the courts of what innovations are subject to patent protection. -
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