For many companies that compete in competitive markets, innovation and product improvement fuels competitive success: create a better product than your competitors, and over time, make it better.

A common conception in the U.S. is that in European litigation, parties have no means to obtain evidence from the opponent or a third party and have to produce any evidence they want to rely on by themselves.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones … but [sharp] words [from the Federal Circuit] will make me wish I never went to law school."

The recent passage of the Defend Trade Secrets Act ("DTSA") creates a new, powerful remedy for trade secret holders in an era where misappropriation and theft of trade secrets is on the rise.

On June 29, 2021, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision retained the doctrine of assignor estoppel. However, the Court also held that "the Federal Circuit has applied the doctrine too expansively."

On August 2, 2021, in Omni MedSci, Inc. v. Apple Inc., No. 20-1715, slip op., a Federal Circuit panel decision, with a dissent, upheld the district court's denial of Apple Inc.'s motion to dismiss Omni MedSci's patent infringement complaint for lack of standing.

On June 1, 2023, the new European Unified Patent Court (UPC) opened its doors, and enforcement of European patents in (currently) 17 contract member states...

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Ingenico Inc. v. IOENGINE, LLC, No. 2023-1367, 2025 WL 1318188 (Fed. Cir. May 7, 2025)...

No pharmaceutical antitrust decision has had more impact than the Supreme Court's 2013 decision in Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis, a decision which officially defined the term "reverse payment settlements,"...

Over the past few months the venue landscape for patent infringement litigations has changed drastically.

This part of the series discusses patent appeals to the UPC Court of Appeal from decisions and orders of the Court of First Instance, and compares them to patent appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

This article analyzes a trend in the entertainment field where a party wishing to use another's intellectual property in a creative work will do so without first seeking a license or express consent...

The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA") was years in the making. From the first patent reform bill introduced by Representative Lamar Smith in June 2005 until the final House and Senate debates in September 2011, ...

3D printing (or additive manufacturing) refers to technologies that produce three-dimensional objects by depositing layer upon layer of material during the manufacturing process.

By analyzing a decade's worth of BPCIA filings, we have gained insight into how venue strategy, repeat players, and specialized counsel are shaping the contours of this complex...