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September 22, 2021 | By Gene M. Garner II
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
DOCTRINE OF ASSIGNOR ESTOPPEL LIMITED TO REPRESENTATIONS MADE IN ASSIGNING A PATENT
By: Gene M. Garner II, Partner In a June 29, 2021 opinion in Minerva Surgical, Inc., v. Hologic, Inc., et al., 594 U.S. __(2021), on Writs of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit), the United States Supreme Court (“the Court”) upheld the […]
By: Gene M. Garner II, Partner In a June 21, 2021 opinion in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., et al., Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. v. Arthrex, Inc., et al., and Arthrex, Inc. v Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al., 594 U.S. __(2021), on Writs of Certiorari to the […]
June 23, 2021 | By Richard A. Gollhofer
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
Google v. Oracle– Take 2
By: Richard A. Gollhofer, Partner As discussed in the blog post on April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Google LLC v. Oracle Am., Inc.1 saved Google $9 billion and prevented Oracle’s attempts to control use of the Android operating system in hundreds of millions of devices. For […]
April 29, 2021 | By Richard A. Gollhofer
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court Says Google Can Use Java API
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion on April 5, 2021 that held “Google’s copying of the Java SE API, which included only those lines of code that were needed to allow programmers to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program, was a fair use […]
April 28, 2021 | By Gene M. Garner II | An Nguyen
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
Posted in: S&H IP Blog | U.S. Supreme Court
United States v. Arthrex Inc. – Constitutionality of PTAB Judge Appointments
A recent case between two medical device companies raised the question of the constitutionality of the method in which Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) judges are appointed. PTAB judges are administrative patent judges who examine patents whose validity is questioned and hear appeals from patentees whose patent applications have […]