#patent-infringement

#patent-infringement

The suit was filed in Alexandria, Virginia, and accuses Tesla of knowingly infringing upon five patents related to robotics systems for self-driving vehicles. The company said its founder, Paul Perrone, developed general-purpose robotics operating systems for individual robots and automated devices. Perrone Robotics claims that all Tesla vehicles utilizing the company's Autopilot suite within the last six years infringe the five patents, according to a report from Reuters. Tesla's new Safety Report shows Autopilot is nine times safer than humans

On October 21, 10x Genomics, Inc. and Prognosys Biosciences, Inc. filed a complaint for patent infringement against Illumina, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, asserting that Illumina's spatial technology products infringed on patents covering technology for spatial transcriptomics, which allows researchers to study gene activity within a cell's tissue. U.S. Patent Nos. 11,008,607, 11,549,138, 12,234,505, and 12,297,487 are owned by Prognosys Biosciences and have significant applications in cancer research, neuroscience and immunology.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Monday issued a decision in Rasmussen Instruments, LLC v. DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., vacating a United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts judgment and remanding with instructions to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The court held that Rasmussen Instruments lacked standing to bring the patent infringement lawsuit because it did not own the asserted patents at the time the suit was filed.

The Federal Circuit reversed a Texas jury's $166 million infringement verdict in Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, 24-1039 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 24, 2025), holding that the patentee's contradictory and unclear expert testimony could not support the Jury's finding of patent infringement. The case is centered on Finesse's U.S. Patent Nos. 7,346,134 and 9,548,775, which relate to methods of reducing "intermodulation interference" in wireless communications.

According to Masimo, the CBP 'inexplicably reversed course' from its prior rulings in finding that Apple could overcome the LEO by shipping its smartwatches separately from iPhones.

"To only seek such damages after default here is fundamentally unfair, as in this case it would more than triple Group One's damages award." - CAFC The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Thursday partially affirmed and partially reversed a decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York that had denied holding a non-party in contempt of a temporary restraining order (TRO) and awarded less than the requested damages amount in a patent infringement suit.

Cancellation bears on what can be covered under the doctrine of equivalents... because a relevant artisan would understand the close basic-physics relationship of the cancelled and retained claims.

Research supporting institutional or commercial goals is not protected. Modern research rarely happens in a vacuum, as it is performed with a purpose beyond mere intellectual curiosity.

The Fifth Circuit's ruling in Reed v. Marshall establishes that trademark infringement claims under the Lanham Act cannot be sustained between co-owners of a trademark.

The district court concluded Mitek had no reasonable apprehension of suit, determining that MiSnap did not practice all claim elements, thus undermining the legitimacy of Mitek's claims.

What's important to understand here is, Carma isn't just asserting five patents. They have had a very sophisticated strategy of patent procurement that they've been working on for the past 18 years.

Judge Stark did not believe that Acufloor's representations during prosecution sufficed to overcome clear indications from the specification that mortar is not required to reach the very edge of the tile to meet Acufloor's asserted claims.

Apple has been ordered to pay a $502 million sum for infringing patents held by Optis, a patent troll, in London courts.