August 11, 2021
Two recent rulings, including one that torpedoed a $308.5 million verdict against Apple, could spur greater use of a rarely invoked rule that renders patents unenforceable when the inventor delays the application process, potentially casting a shadow on some common filing strategies.
August 06, 2021
A Texas federal judge overturned a jury's $308.5 million patent verdict against Apple, bashing an inventor's "egregious misuse" of the patent system by slow-walking applications to artificially extend protections in secret while a market for infringing products grew.
July 07, 2021
Apple asked U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap to wipe out a $308.5 million jury verdict that a patent-holding company won in March, telling the judge that a Federal Circuit ruling last month against a different prolific inventor adds fuel to the tech giant's argument that the company purposely kept its inventions secret for decades and forfeited its patents.
March 19, 2021
An Eastern District of Texas jury decided Friday that Apple infringed a Personalized Media Communications patent on decrypting digital media content and must pay $308.5 million in damages.
January 08, 2021
A Texas federal magistrate judge on Friday recommended tossing Apple Inc.'s bid to dodge patent infringement allegations over its FairPlay secure streaming technology, rejecting Apple's argument that one of the patents in the dispute doesn't apply to its products in light of a recent Federal Circuit ruling.
September 15, 2016
A federal magistrate in the Eastern District of Texas said Tuesday that decryption patents asserted against Apple Inc. over its FairPlay secure streaming technology don't claim abstract ideas invalid for patent protection under Alice, also finding that prior litigation shouldn't bar the present lawsuit.
July 31, 2015
More than 180 intellectual property complaints were filed in federal courts across the U.S. during the past week. Here, Law360 takes a look at the biggest patent, trademark and copyright suits of the week and the firms that filed them — which included Capshaw DeRieux LLP, Owen Wickersham & Erickson PC and Freedman and Taitelman LLP.