21 Oct 2013
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court’s decision holding Sturm did not infringe Keurig’s patents, because Keurig’s patent rights were exhausted. Patent exhaustion is an affirmative defense to a claim of patent infringement, which is triggered, in some instances as in this case, when a patent owner authorizes...
2 Jul 2013
Recently a global investment management and services business known as BNY Mellon obtained a patent for a new management system that it calls Margin DIRECT. Rather than a product or technology, Margin DIRECT appears to be an idea or system that allowed BNY Mellon to enable the secure management of collateral between counterparties by providing...
21 Jun 2013
The past twenty-five years have seen amazing advancement in scientific understanding of the human body. From cloning to stem cells, major scientific breakthroughs have turned the body itself into a kind of technology to be manipulated and played with. But the crowning achievement of this new research into the human body is arguably the Human...
1 Jan 2013
In PHG Technologies, LLC, v. St. John Companies, Case No. 06-1169 (Fed. Cir., Nov. 17, 2006), the Federal Circuit vacated the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee’s preliminary injunction in favor of Plaintiff-Appellee, PHG Technologies, L.L.C. (“PHG”). The court relied on the finding that Defendant-Appellant, St. John Companies, Inc. (“St. John”)...