This week in Other Barks & Bites: LexisNexis issues a 5G patent report showing major gains by both China and patent assertion entities; the U.S. Supreme Court denies cert petitions in a trio of IP cases, two featuring copyright claims and another challenging panelling decisions at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; Boeing tells investors to expect a $4 billion loss for 2024’s fourth quarter; the Federal Circuit reverses the District of Delaware’s noninfringement ruling under the reverse doctrine of equivalents for the lower court’s failure to credit expert testimony; the Trump Administration names Coke Stewart the Acting Director of the USPTO; the European Union files for dispute resolution proceedings at the WTO over Chinese courts setting global royalty rates for standard essential patents (SEPs); and German music copyright organization GEMA files a copyright infringement suit against Suno’s generative AI platform.
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- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, May 9: USPTO Responds to GAO Report; Stewart Welcomes National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees; CAFC Defines ‘Ground’ for IPR Estoppel Statute
- PTAB Designates as Informative Stewart Decision on Discretion to Institute in Context of Parallel District Court Litigation
- Judge Hughes Again Calls Out CAFC’s Overly Rigid Article III Analysis for Pharmaceutical Cases
- Coke Stewart’s Recent Show Cause Order Offers Hope for Addressing Serial Patent Challenges
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