Having publicly nonobservable elements or steps in a patent claim can lead to problems for patent owners, but there are ways to help avoiding being sanctioned or held to inaccurate infringement ...

Patentees face many challenges in trying to prove literal infringement, particularly when dealing with competitors who make trivial modifications or superficial changes to the patented invention. In ...

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Realtek Semiconductor Corp. v. International Trade Commission, dismissing Realtek’s appeal from the ITC’s ...