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Germany cleans up in European patent litigation According to statistics on European litigation exclusively revealed by Managing IP this week, German courts have been wiping up European patent litigation since 2015. The data, provided by Darts-IP, shows that Germany took in 3,692 cases between 2015 and 2019, compared to 673 in Italy, 503 in France, 492 in the Netherlands and 430 in the UK, the next four most popular countries for European patent litigation. German courts also featured the most frequently in the list of the top 10 most popular European courts for patent cases, with the Düssel...

Jury asks Intel to pay $2.2bn in Albright’s second jury trial In Judge Alan Albright’s second jury trial, VLSI Technology was awarded $2.18 billion in damages after a jury ruled on Tuesday, March 2, that Intel infringed two of the plaintiff’s patents. The jury, at the District Court for the Western District of Texas, ruled that the patents belonging to the Fortress Investment Group subsidiary were valid and that Intel did infringe, but that the infringement was not wilful. Intel had asked to delay the trial because of COVID, but Albright rejected this request. The case was postponed by ...

The ‘then and now’ of PTAB 24-02-2021 17-11-2020 After the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) was first formed in 2012, it soon gained a reputation as the ‘patent killer’ for knocking out patents via inter partes review (IPR). Now, nearly a decade later, a WIPR Patents Live panel discussed how the board has changed and what patent practitioners may expect to see in future. WIPR’s group publisher Peter Scott sat down with Oblon partners Lisa Mandrusiak and Christopher Ricciuti and Finnegan partner Trenton Ward to discuss, in particular, last year’s key developments and...

Brand owners question EU counterfeit watch list credibility On Tuesday, January 5, in-house counsel criticised the EU’s decision not to include major e-commerce platforms in its list of sites that reportedly facilitate intellectual property infringement. According to the European Commission, which published the Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List in December 2020 with the support of the EUIPO, Amazon, Alibaba and eBay were not included because of their continued engagement with rights owners. Counsel at Philips, a fashion company and drinks brand Jägermeister pointed out to Managing IP that...