At the annual RPX client conference in May, a panel of judges urged those in the audience to place more trust in juries to correctly and fairly adjudicate patent disputes. That trust often depends on anecdotal evidence for certain venues, as stereotypes abound for popular districts with respect to jury trial win rates. However, an…
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The patent ecosystem continued to show signs of a shift back in favor of patent owners in the second quarter, as some of the plaintiff-centric trends from Q1 remained at play. Patent validity challenges, in particular, underwent further changes in Q2 as a result of judicial decisions issued earlier this year. Although inter partes review…
Read full postThe US Supreme Court has issued its decision in WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical, ruling that patent plaintiffs may recover lost profits damages when an infringer has made certain components in the US for an invention that gets assembled abroad. However, while oral arguments for the case suggested that the decision would address how parties will…
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