http://www.lexisnexis.com/mealeys/news.aspx Headline Intellectual Property Pleadings Legal News from LexisNexis® en-us http://www.lexisnexis.com/mealeys/images/lexismealeyslogo.gif 130 29 http://www.lexisnexis.com/mealeys/news.aspx Copyright 2020 http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-16%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%201%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals correctly deemed the copying of thousands of lines of Java code by Google LLC to not have been fair use, Oracle America Inc. argues in its Feb. 12 merits respondent brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, calling Google's actions "clear-cut copyright infringement" and asking the high court to affirm the judgment in its favor (Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., No. 18-956, U.S. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-16%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%202%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a Feb. 3 opposition brief, a clothing company characterizes a textile firm's petition for certiorari over a design copyright dispute as not raising issues important enough to merit attention from the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals correctly upheld a judgment invalidating the design copyright for containing inaccurate information as to first publication (Gold Value International Textile Inc. v. Sanctuary Clothing LLC, et al., No. 19-708, U.S. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-16%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%203%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - Citing the Lanham Act's "primary significance" test, Booking.com B.V. argues in its Feb. 12 merits respondent brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals correctly found that the adding of the top-level domain (TLD) ".com" to a generic term can create a protectable trademark if the relevant public does not view the mark as generic (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B.V., No. 19-46, U.S. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-16%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%204%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - Apple Inc. on Feb. 4 filed a reply brief supporting its petition for certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide a standard for considering apportionment and intervening patent invalidations in infringement cases, seeking to reverse a $439 million judgment against it (Apple Inc. v. VirnetX Inc., et al., No. 19-832, U.S. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-16%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%205%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a Feb. 3 intervenor brief, the U.S. government tells the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that it should uphold not only findings by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that two message routing patents are nonobvious but also the agency's decision to order rehearing as a sanction for the patent owner's unauthorized ex parte communication with two board panels previously assigned to the case (Apple Inc. v. Voip-Pal.com, Nos. 2018-1456, -1457, Fed. Cir.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-15%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%201%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - From Jan. 7 to Jan. 13, 28 amicus curiae briefs were filed in the long-running copyright dispute between Google LLC and Oracle America Inc., with 26 of them supporting Google and raising arguments including the importance of interoperability in software development and the possibility of antitrust abuses (Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., No. 18-956, U.S. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-15%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%202%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - A photographer who had his copyright infringement claims against a publisher dismissed as insufficiently pleaded asks the U.S. Supreme Court in a Jan. 13 petition for certiorari to clarify what facts a copyright holder must allege to sufficiently state a prima facie case of infringement that can withstand a dismissal motion (Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc., No. 19-894, U.S. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-15%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%203%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - An owner of secure internet communications patents on Jan. 21 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a petition for certiorari by Apple Inc. in a long-running patent infringement dispute, arguing that the petition, which raises questions of apportionment and patent validity, is "plagued by fatal defects" and "presents no issue warranting review." (Apple Inc. v. VirnetX Inc., et al., No. 19-832, U.S. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-15%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%204%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - Hulu LLC and Unified Patents Inc. tell the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a Jan. 24 appellee brief that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board correctly canceled six claims of a data management patent in an inter partes review (Sound View Innovations LLC v. Hulu LLC, et al., Nos. 19-1865, -1866, -1867, Fed. Cir.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-15%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%205%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a Jan. 14 reply brief filed with the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, appellants argue that a Massachusetts federal judge erred in declaring two researchers co-inventors of six patents directed to cancer immunotherapy (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. v. Ono Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., et al., No. 19-2050, Fed. Cir.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-14%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%201%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - In its Jan. 6 opening merits brief, Google LLC tells the U.S. Supreme Court that the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in finding that its use of a small portion of Java code infringed Oracle America Inc.'s copyright, asserting that the ruling wrongly discounted a jury's reasonable finding of fair use and runs counter to the merger doctrine (Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., No. 18-956, U.S. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-14%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%202%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - In its Jan. 6 opening merits brief, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) opposes the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals' finding that "Booking.com" is a protectable trademark, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to find that the combination of a generic top-level domain (TLD), such as ".com," and a generic term does not create a registrable mark (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B.V., No. 19-46, U.S. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-14%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%203%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - Less than two weeks after VirnetX Inc. waived its right to respond to Apple Inc.'s petition for certiorari in a suit where Apple was hit with a $439 million damages judgment, the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 14 asked the respondent to file its answers to questions raised about patent apportionment and invalidation (Apple Inc. v. VirnetX Inc., et al., No. 19-832, U.S. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-14%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%204%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - A patent owner on Jan. 7 maintained before the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a Delaware federal magistrate judge arrived at an incorrect construction of a disputed claim term in a patent infringement lawsuit over the "Bing" search engine (Improved Search LLC v. Microsoft Corp., No. 19-1961, Fed. Cir.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=16-14%20Mealey%27s%20Intell.%20Prop.%20Plead.%205%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a Dec. 23 reply brief, an unsuccessful inter partes review (IPR) petitioner tells the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board erred when it upheld as patentable various claims of a technique for testing electronic circuits with a laser (Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. v. SEMICAPS Pte. Ltd., No. 19-1890, Fed. Cir.).