On Friday, July 24, 2015, Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, dismissed with prejudice nine lawsuits asserting seven related patents against multiple travel web-site providers. The dismissal was based on the successful challenge to selected claims of two of those seven patents, by the defendants in six of […]
Klarquist is proud to have Ramon A. Klitzke II, Jeffrey S. Love, and John D. Vandenberg named to the 2015 Oregon Super Lawyers® list, and Carla Todenhagen, Philip Warrick, and N. Andrew Sfeir selected for inclusion on the 2015 Oregon Rising Stars℠ list. The annual survey is published by Thomas Reuters. Surveys of attorneys throughout […]
Klarquist today published a 145-page public version of our internal “Patent Defenses” patent litigation training document, available at www.patentdefenses.com and at www.patentdefenses.com. Patent Defenses includes a litigator’s analysis and organization of several hundred hyperlinked Supreme Court, Federal Circuit (mostly since 2004), CCPA, and BPAI/PTAB decisions on patent claim construction, patent infringement, willful infringement, patent invalidity, […]
Klarquist is the sole firm for Oregon to receive a Gold tier ranking from Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine in IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners 2015. Four Klarquist attorneys, Scott E. Davis, Jeffrey S. Love, William D. Noonan, M.D., and John D. Vandenberg, received individual recognition.
On May 22, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,239,451 B1 of Metasearch Systems, LLC, unpatentable under Section 101 and Section 103 of the Patent Act. The decision concluded a Covered Business Method Review Proceeding (CBM2014-00050) filed and tried by Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, on behalf of American Express […]
Klarquist has received a top tier ranking from Chambers USA for 2015. Klarquist is recognized as one of two top tier intellectual property law firms in Oregon. In addition, three Klarquist attorneys, Scott E. Davis, William D. Noonan, M.D., and John D. Vandenberg, received individual recognition for intellectual property; Vandenberg received “Star Individual” recognition. Sources say: […]
On April 21, 2015, Klarquist submitted an amicus brief to the Federal Circuit on behalf of a group of companies, asking the Court to reaffirm the viability of the laches defense in patent law. The amicus brief, filed in connection with the pending en banc rehearing of SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby […]
On April 10, 2015, two days after oral argument, the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed a summary judgment of invalidity to Klarquist client Bravo Media, LLC (a division of NBC Universal Media LLC) that U.S. Patent No. 6,585,516 (the ‘516 patent) was invalid under 35 USC § 101 for failing to claim patent-eligible subject matter. The […]
On March 13, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,326,924 of Metasearch Systems, LLC unpatentable under Section 101 and Section 103 of the Patent Act. The decision concluded a Covered Business Method Review Proceeding (CBM2014-00001) filed and tried by Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, on behalf of American Express Co., […]
On January 20, 2015, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (Hon. Maxine M. Chesney) granted summary judgment to Mentor Graphics Corporation, invalidating all asserted claims of three patents for claiming patent-ineligible subject matter under Section 101 of the Patent Act. The order issued on a motion briefed and argued by […]