A Roanoke U.S. District Court says de­fendant manufacturer has not violated the court’s 2015 injunction ordering it to cease and desist marketing its China-made Ultrasorbs as being made in the U.S. and forbidding it from using any reference to plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

In this patent litigation, defendant company’s counterclaim and defense of inequitable conduct – the “atomic bomb” of patent law – survive motions to dis­miss, based on defendant’s allegations about misrepresentations by plaintiff’s lawyer in seeking an expedited change to language ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Fairfax Circuit Court says it does not have jurisdiction over a Utah resident’s suit against a “John Doe” defendant seek­ing a default judgment and an order di­recting Verisign Inc., a non-party internet domain name registry, to transfer the do­main ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Intellectual Property Judge Daniel E. Ortiz Virginia Circuit Courts

In this patent infringement action in­volving a series of machine-to-machine communication platforms designed for tracking and monitoring the location and status of widely dispersed fleet vehicles and related mobile assets, the Richmond U.S. District Court rejects defendant’s claims that the ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff BMG music publishing company’s copyright infringement suit against internet service provider Cox Communications, the Alexandria U.S. District Court upholds a $25 million jury award to the publishing compa­ny on a claim that defendant internet service provider was aware ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this Lanham Act suit by plaintiff Se­lect Auto Imports Inc. against Yates Se­lect Auto Sales LLC, an Alexandria U.S. District Court finds that all nine factors in the likelihood of confusion analysis weigh in favor of plaintiff or are ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court rejects a patent applicant’s latest ef­fort to avoid paying the court-ordered sum of $36,320.49 for expenses, includ­ing attorney’s fees, of the Patent and Trademark Office pursuant to § 21(b) (3) of the Lanham Act, in ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s motion for partial dismissal of plaintiff ’s claim that he should be awarded credit for time attributable to various delays caused by the PTO during the continued examination ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff company’s challenge to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decision rejecting the patentability of inventions claims in plaintiff ’s ‘161 ap­plication, the PTO’s defense of lack of standing is not barred by the doctrine of collateral estoppel, says ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiffs’ claims that defendant’s ‘432 patent, relating to a method for centralized identification and authen­tication of users and their transactions to increase security in e-commerce, are invalid because they are directed to an abstract idea and thus are ineligible for ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Robert G. Doumar U.S. District Court - Eastern District