On March 30th,
the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against drug manufacturer Endo
Pharmaceuticals, alleging that Endo is paying generic drug manufacturers in order to
delay the release of lower cost generic versions of their drugs, Opana ER and
Lidoderm.
Generic drugs
come to market when the patents on name brand drugs expire.
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Docket Alarm is
excited to announce the release of a new report: “Big Pharma and the Legal Industry: Docket
Alarm’s Guide to Orange Book Patent Analytics”.
The report,
presented in a visually engaging infographic, breaks down how the relatively
new Patent Trial and Appeal Board is reshaping Hatch-Waxman litigation.
Attorneys can see statistics on everything from the trajectory of Orange Book
patents at the PTAB to the top players in the field.
Get your free
copy of “Big Pharma and the Legal Industry: Docket
Alarm’s Guide to Orange Book Patent Analytics”.
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Docket Alarm is the only research
platform that offers patent practitioners a complete PTAB research and
analytics platform featuring Orange Book patents engaged in litigation.
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The Supreme Court announced Monday that
it would agree
to hear part of an appeal filed by Samsung seeking to overturn a $548
million damages award granted to Apple last year. Aside from finally closing
the door on this five-year saga between Apple and Samsung, SCOTUS’s decision is
newsworthy because it’s the first case before the Court involving design
patents since 1894. See Dunlop v.
Schofield, 152 U.S. 244 (1894).
The Court agreed
to hear arguments regarding whether Samsung is liable for all profits from the
sale of phones that infringed on Apple’s design patents, totaling $399 million
dollars, or whether they are liable only for the portion of those profits
attributable to the role those protected design elements played in actual phone
sales.
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RFC Express was, until recently, a well-known IP litigation alert provider that offered easy access to case alerts at a reasonable rate. Unfortunately, the service has appeared to have shuttered its doors. Many users stopped receiving case alerts without warning.
Fortunately, former RFC Express users are not left without options. Docket Alarm can meet all of their research needs and much more.
Blazing Fast Alerts Over a Comprehensive Database
Like RFC Express, Docket Alarm offers users access to IP cases from U.S. Federal District Courts.
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Docket
Alarm is excited to announce the release of its new search interface.
By
integrating useful tools like one-click analytics and automatic case citation
directly into your list of search results, the new interface makes legal
research easier than ever before. Streamlined and simplified, the new interface
also provides attorneys with a more user-friendly experience and significantly
faster loading times.
One-Click Analytics
One
of the most innovative features of Docket Alarm is the ability to see analytics
related to parties, judges, and law firms in PTAB cases.
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So called "patent trolls" have been all over the news, and with good reason— these entities pose significant risks to the hi-tech industry. But a new tribunal has been shown to be effective at thwarting patent trolls and other overly aggressive patent owners.
Patent trolls are companies that attempt to monetize patents through litigation, with no interest in commercializing a product or advancing the state-of-the-art.
Patent trolls are companies that attempt to monetize patents through litigation, with no interest in commercializing a product or advancing the state-of-the-art.
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San Francisco-based activity tracker
startup, Fitbit, Inc., filed a complaint on November 2 with the ITC, requesting
an investigation in the importation and sale of activity tracking devices by
AliphCom, more commonly known as Jawbone, and BodyMedia, Inc. Fitbit alleges
these devices, which included Jawbone’s “UP” product line and the “UP”
App, infringe on claims in three of its patents.
The ITC is well known to be a fast-moving patent venue.While thedocket might indicate that not muchhas happened since the case was filed in November, in the next three months, an important substantive hearing (claim construction) will be in April 2016 and a final decision from the judge is due in less than a year.To receive the latest developments as FitBit’s ITC investigation unfolds, attorneys can setup tracking with Docket Alarm forthis docketto receive email alerts.
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Docket Alarm is pleased
to announce the first legal research platform to provide Orange Book litigators a suite of tools
for their practice. The
features include the ability to track changes to the Orange Book and related
litigation, search correspondence between drug companies and the FDA, and
analytics on Orange Book cases in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
What is the Orange Book?
The
“Orange Book,” published since 1980, is the authoritative resource on FDA
approved drugs for patent litigators.
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board, or PTAB, has been
steadily gaining momentum since its inception inSeptember
2012. Recognizing the need for lawyers to navigate the ever-growing list of
decisions, Docket Alarm has created the first and only dedicated PTAB legal research engine
and analytics
platform.
Docket Alarm’s database contains every published PTAB
decision and features a dashboard
with quick links to different categories of recent decisions. To make finding
relevant information even easier, Docket Alarm has also created numerous
one-click filters that allow users to parse through results by specific
criteria.
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Law is
competitive, and it can be difficult for young attorneys to stand out at their
firms. However, junior associates can give themselves an edge by taking an
active interest in their practice and their firm’s business. Here are some
specific ways junior attorneys can separate themselves from the pack.
Know Your Practice Area
This goes
without saying, but great junior attorneys don’t just clock in and clock out,
they have a healthy intellectual curiosity about what is going on in their
practice area.
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Yesterday, a federal court issued a major ruling against social
media giant Pinterest in a trademark
infringement lawsuit against much smaller startup Pintrips.
Pinterest is America’s third largest social network behind
Facebook and Twitter. The company is currently valued at $11 billion and has an
estimated 80 million monthly users. Users view, share, and organize content by
creating “pins” on their virtual pin boards.
Pintrips is self-described as a collaborative trip-planning
dashboard for tracking flights and prices across destinations in real time.
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What kind of company makes no creative works but earns
millions of dollars a year suing random people on the internet in the name of
copyright law? You guessed it, a copyright troll. Much like patent trolls, copyright trolls are entities
that do not create or distribute creative content, yet acquire copyrights to
creative works in order to file lawsuits against accused infringers.
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From August 29 to September 6, 2015, servers operated by the
United States Copyright Office, were down. For more than eight days, hundreds of
applicants had to jump through hoops to file a copyright.
The Copyright Office’s electronic filing system, known as
“eCO”, was taken offline “to accommodate a scheduled annual power outage to
allow routine maintenance by the Architect of the Capitol,” according to the Office.However, at the end of the blackout period,
the Library’s information technology office could not bring the servers back
online, along with several other Library managed government sites.
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In a victory for aerospace company SpaceX,
the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued
a decision on August 27th canceling 13 claims in a rocket sea-landing
patent owned by competitor Blue Origin, a space venture backed by Amazon’s Jeff
Bezos.
The patent at issue, U.S. Patent No. 8,678,321 B2 (the “’321
patent”), describes a method of vertically landing a rocket booster on a
floating platform after launch.
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Founded almost three years ago, the Patent Trial Appeal Board ("PTAB") has exploded in popularity as the venue of choice for challenging patent validity. This week, the PTAB reached a symbolic, but nevertheless real milestone:exceeding a quarter million document filingsin the court.
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