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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal said Thursday she's had a busy first week steering the agency, which included working on updated guidance for Arthrex reviews and releasing public comments solicited on the so-called article of manufacture requirement for design patents.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has agreed to review two Vocalife LLC microphone patents, one of which a Texas jury ordered Amazon to pay $5 million for infringing, agreeing with challenger Google LLC that the patents are likely invalid.
The solicitor general has told the U.S. Supreme Court it should not entertain PersonalWeb Technologies' attempt to rein in the Federal Circuit's use of a 114-year-old doctrine that barred the software development company from suing Amazon's customers for patent infringement.
A Texas federal jury found on Friday that Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. owes $41.8 million in damages because a breast cancer treatment medication it markets under the brand name Enhertu infringes a Seagen Inc. patent covering the delivery of a drug called Adcetris.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has agreed to review a Seagen Inc. antibody patent after the board previously used its discretion to reject two challenges from Daiichi Sankyo Inc. and AstraZeneca while a Texas federal jury on Friday found Daiichi willfully infringed the patent to the tune of $41.8 million.