Tencent’s Supercell games infringed six of Gree’s patents, a federal jury in Marshall, Texas, found on May 7. Bloomberg
Tencent Holdings Ltd’s Supercell gaming unit was told to pay US$92.2mil (RM378.57mil) in damages to Japan’s Gree Inc in a patent trial over features used in popular online games.
Supercell games infringed six patents, a federal jury in Marshall, Texas, found Friday. The verdict follows an US$8.5mil (RM34.90mil) win for Gree against Supercell in another patent trial held in September. A third trial between the two is scheduled for later this year.
The dispute is over features in “freemium” games, a portmanteau of “free” and “premium”, that are free to download but make money by letting users buy virtual items or upgrade during the game. Gree was one of the pioneers of the technique, also known as gacha.
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Amgen v. Sanofi affirmed the district court’s judgment as a matter of law invalidating genus claims in U.S. Patent Nos. 8,829,165 and 8,859,741 that recite functional limitations covering Amgen’s cholesterol medication Repatha® by focusing on full scope enablement. Now, Amgen has filed a petition for
en banc rehearing arguing that the panel improperly created a new and heightened test for enablement of genus claims with functional limitations.
1 In the petition, Amgen poses the following questions:
[Question 1:] Whether the panel’s new enablement test for genus claims with functional limitations . . . conflicts with Supreme Court decisions . . . .
[Question 2:] Whether enablement is a question of fact, as the Supreme Court has held, or a question of law, as [the Federal Circuit] holds . . . .
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The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), enacted in 1976, authorizes the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the manufacture or importation of new and existing chemicals. TSCA’s regulations include reporting, record-keeping, and testing requirements. TSCA’s scope is very broad – reaching any “person” who manufactures, imports, processes, distributes in commerce, uses or disposes of a chemical substance, regardless of the industry sector. In June 2016, Congress enacted the Lautenberg Act, which sharpened TSCA’s tools for assessment and regulation of both existing and new chemical substances in the marketplace. Consequently, the Trump Administration was the first administration with the opportunity to most fully implement the 2016 Amendments. In the view of its critics, Trump’s EPA exercised its discretion often to the benefit of chemical companies, including a narrower scope for
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Bethea worked under Abrams from 2005 to 2008. During that time, Abrams headed the city of Atlanta s counsel team, and Bethea ran the legislative counsel. She created spaces for you to be able to learn, which necessarily means that there s always a risk that you might fail, too, Bethea told Insider. I felt like she saw more of my abilities than I did, and if I didn t get it at a hundred, it was OK.
Even before stepping onto the national stage, Abrams has always been an effective leader because she creates psychological safety for her teams, according to Bethea. Psychological safety is a term used by mental-health experts to describe a space where people feel they can be authentic, supported, and validated.