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Keynote Address: Is It Time To Abolish The Federal Circuit's Exclusive Jurisdiction In Patent Cases?, Diane P. Wood
Keynote Address: Is It Time To Abolish The Federal Circuit's Exclusive Jurisdiction In Patent Cases?, Diane P. Wood
Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
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Not All Patents Are Created Equal: Bias Against Predictable Arts Patents In The Post-Ksr Landscape, David Tseng
Not All Patents Are Created Equal: Bias Against Predictable Arts Patents In The Post-Ksr Landscape, David Tseng
Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
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Rebuttable Presumption Of Public Interest In Protecting The Public Health --The Necessity For Denying Injunctive Relief In Medically-Related Patent Infringement Cases After Ebay V. Mercexchange, Lance Wyatt
Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
The public’s interest in medicine and good health is substantial. However, this interest is harmed when important medical devices or pharmaceuticals, although infringing on valid patents, are suddenly taken off the market after a court grants a permanent injunction. While permanent injunctions were automatically granted by the Federal Circuit before the Supreme Court’s holding in eBay v. MercExchange, courts now have more discretion to deny injunctive relief. Now that courts have this newfound discretion after eBay, the public should no longer expect to be harmed by the sudden removal of medical supplies. Unfortunately, this has not been the course that …
Recent Decisions Provide Some Clarity On How Courts And Government Agencies Will Likely Resolve Issues Involving Standard-Essential Patents, Steven M. Amundson
Recent Decisions Provide Some Clarity On How Courts And Government Agencies Will Likely Resolve Issues Involving Standard-Essential Patents, Steven M. Amundson
Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
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Patent Litigation Attorneys' Fees: Shifting From Status To Conduct, Daniel Roth
Patent Litigation Attorneys' Fees: Shifting From Status To Conduct, Daniel Roth
Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
Abusive patent assertion results in deadweight losses to society. Faced with the high cost of patent litigation, companies often settle for an amount equal to a fraction of the cost of defending a patent infringement suit. This allows the patent owner to extract settlements from many individuals without the risk of invalidation before a federal court. Shifting attorneys' fees to the prevailing party is a remedy courts award in exceptional cases to deter patent owners from bringing unreasonable claims of infringement and to return defendants to the position they were in prior to litigation. Current fee-shifting proposals target patent assertion …
Free Riders At The Drugstore: Generics, Consumer Confusion, And The Public Good, Kelley Clements Keller Esq.
Free Riders At The Drugstore: Generics, Consumer Confusion, And The Public Good, Kelley Clements Keller Esq.
Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
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Technically Speaking, Does It Matter? An Empirical Study Linking The Federal Circuit Judges' Technical Backgrounds To How They Analyze The Section 112 Enablement And Written Description Requirements, Dunstan H. Barnes
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Patent cases are decided exclusively by federal judges, who—unlike patent attorneys appearing before the United States Patent and Trademark Office—are not required to have any scientific or technical qualifications. The present empirical study explores whether there is a correlation between the technical backgrounds of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and these judges’ analysis of the enablement and written description patent requirements under 35 U.S.C. § 112. The results indicate that Federal Circuit judges with technical backgrounds are more likely than their non-technical peers to reverse lower courts, but not significantly more likely to …
Shopping For Reversals: How Accuracy Differs Across Patent Litigation Forums, Teresa Lii
Shopping For Reversals: How Accuracy Differs Across Patent Litigation Forums, Teresa Lii
Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
This study analyzes the rate of reversal on appeal of each district court for the most popular patent litigation forums in the United States. Alarmingly, this study finds that district courts which have been shopped for by litigants may also be the courts that are most often applying patent law erroneously. Among these districts is the notoriously patentee-friendly Eastern District of Texas, which has attracted huge volumes of litigants to its dockets in recent years.
Although forum shopping has always antagonized the fairness of civil proceedings, it is of special problem in the context of patent litigation. Where billions of …