The Federal Circuit recently held that a trial court is permitted to construe claims in deciding a Rule 12(b)(6) motion. In UTTO Inc. v. Metrotech Corp., Appeal No. 2023-1435 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 18, 2024), the Court rejected the plaintiff’s argument that claim...
Month: October 2024
Two PV Law Attorneys Achieve Multiple Recognitions from Patexia for PTAB and Patent Litigation, 2024
PV Law congratulates Bradford Cangro and Jeremy Peterson for achieving multiple recognitions from Patexia Insights for their work at the PTAB and in Patent Litigation in 2024.
Claims Are Not Necessarily Limited to What the Specification Describes as “the invention”
The principle that claims are not necessarily limited to an embodiment described in the specification is well established. That cannon is not immutable, and unrecited features have been found to nevertheless limit a claim when, for example, the specification...
PTAB Panels Deny Petitions Based on Deficient Claim Construction Analysis
Petitioners often seek to challenge claims applying the same claim scope under which the Patent Owner is prosecuting a parallel infringement action. However, two recent decisions from the PTAB highlight the risk that a Petitioner takes when it proffers—but fails to...
Trina Solar’s 2024 Patent Infringement Cases and Trina Solar’s Patents on Solar Cells
On May 8, 2024, Trina Solar Co., Ltd. (“Trina Solar”) and Trina Solar (U.S.), Inc. sued Runergy USA Inc. and Runergy Alabama Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Trina Solar Co., Ltd. v. Runergy USA Inc., Case No. 1:24-cv-00557-JCG,...
Two PV Law Attorneys Named to Lawdragon’s List of 500 Leading Litigations in America, 2025
PV Law congratulates Bradford Cangro and Jacob Snodgrass for being named to Lawdragon’s list of 500 Leading Litigators in America, 2025.
Court Rejects Argument that China’s Counterespionage Law Bars Discovery
A district court in Missouri is the latest U.S. court to reject a party’s effort to resist discovery on the basis that a foreign law allegedly prohibits the requested disclosure. In Nidec Motor Corp. v. Broad Ocean Motor, LLC, Case No. 4:13-cv-1895, 2024 WL 4332057...
Shoals Technologies’ Patents on Connecting Solar Panels Asserted at the ITC
On August 30, 2024, the United States International Trade Commission (“ITC”) issued a Notice of Final Initiation Determination, finding that defendants Voltage, LLC and Ningbo Voltage Smart Production Co. violated certain claims in U.S. Patent No. 11,689,153, assigned...
Soelect v. Hyundai And Soelect’s Patents on Lithium Anode Battery Technology
On September 24, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California threw out a trade secret suit brought by startup company Soelect Incorporated (“Soelect”) against Hyundai Motor Company (“Hyundai”). The court granted Hyundai’s motion to...