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IPO Webinar on Inequitable Conduct After Regeneron

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Inequitable Conduct After Regeneron: What Litigators, Patent Prosecutors, and Patent Owners Need to Know" on January 10, 2019 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Prof. David Hricik of … Continue reading

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Failure to Disclose Pre-Filing Service Contract == Inequitable Conduct

by Dennis Crouch In Energy Heating v. Heat On-The-Fly, the Federal Circuit affirmed the lower court’s holding that Heat On-The-Fly’s U.S. Patent No. 8,171,993 is unenforceable due to inequitable conduct. The underlying invention involves a portable system for preparing a heated … Continue reading

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Another Inequitable Counterclaim Dismissed after Thereasense

Plaintiff filed a patent infringement action against the defendant alleging that certain of defendant's T-shirt transfer products infringed plaintiff's patent. Defendant filed an answer and counterclaim which accused the plaintiff of inequitable conduct in amending its patent during a reissuance … Continue reading

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Federal appeals court restricts inequitable conduct defense for patent law

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit [official website] on Wednesday restricted [opinion, PDF] the use of the “inequitable conduct” defense for invalidating patents. Inequitable conduct previously allowed the judge to use his or her discretion in … Continue reading

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