- Supreme Court Petitions Pending:
- FTC v. Rambus: Duties of a patent holder in standard setting negotiations. (To be discussed in more detail this week.)
- Apotex Corp. v. AstraZeneca AB: This case involves a burden of proof. Should an accused product be found non-infringing if the accused demonstrates that it merely practiced the prior art. Non-infringement is proven by a preponderance of the evidence rather than clear and convincing evidence.
- MuniAuction v. Thomson Corp.: Challenges the Federal Circuit's single actor requirement for patent infringement.
- Forest Labs. v. Caraco Pharmaceutical: Whether DJ jurisdiction can exist after the patentee has granted an ANDA applicant a covenant not to sue.
- Burandt v. Dudas: When is a failure to pay "unavoidable"
- Apotex v. Roche: Is there any meat in the reverse doctrine of equivalents.
- Energizer v. ITC: How should a court conduct claim construction?
- 800 Adept, Inc. v. Murex Securities: De novo review of claim construction.
- New Patent Law Jobs:
- Monsanto in Mystic, Connecticut
- Oblon Spivak next door to the PTO
- US Patent Attorney in Japan
- Dolby Labs in San Francisco
- Warner Norcross firm in Grand Rapids
- Leonard Hope is giving up blogging and is looking for a buyer for his domain patentprosecutionblog.com. Let me know if you restart the site.
