While it might not be as cold this New Year’s as it was last year, that doesn’t mean you can’t settle in to read by the fire. And what better to read about than patents? Here’s what I’ll be taking a look at over New Year’s. Time and the Patent Office First, Professors Michael Frakes…
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When A Billion Dollars Is Not Enough: Apple’s Persistence in Enjoining its Competitors
by Brendan Coffman •
On Tuesday February 12, Apple’s “normal” appellate brief appeared on the Federal Circuit’s docket (I say “normal” because Apple took the unconventional step of originally asking for an immediate en banc review, which the Federal Circuit denied). All that is at stake is the future of meaningful competition in the mobile communications industry. A quick…
What Judge Koh’s order in Apple v. Samsung means for the future of injunctions in the smartphone patent wars
by Josh Lamel •
In December, Judge Koh denied Apple’s permanent injunction demands. The ruling sent Florian Mueller into fits over the state of injunction law in the United States. However, as Dennis Crouch at Patently-O opined, in a post-eBay world Judge Koh’s decision was perfectly sensible: a patentee should not obtain a permanent injunction without a clear showing of both…