Thu.Dec 28, 2023

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Lawmatics’ Best of 2023

Lawmatics

2023 has been a huge year here at Lawmatics! We continued to break ground on legal innovation, added even more features to the most robust made-for-legal CRM on the market, and teamed up with some of our friends across the legal world to make managing your business easier. If you haven’t been following us all year, or if you just need a refresher on all that we’ve been up to, here’s our recap of 2023.

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CAFC Says District Court Erred in Claim Construction of ‘Barcode’

IP Watchdog

On December 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision in K-fee System GmbH v. Nespresso USA, Inc., reversing a claim construction ruling and summary judgment of noninfringement issued by the Central District of California. In construing the claim term “barcode” de novo, the Federal Circuit found that the district court erred in finding that its definition expressly excluded “bit codes” in light of the patent owner’s representations during Europea

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Trade Secrets in 2023 Part II: Identification, Misappropriation and Remedies

IP Watchdog

In Part I of this article, we recapped some of the most notable trade secret cases of the past year that dealt with issues such as proving secrecy and exercising reasonable efforts, as well as the publication of a key judicial resource for trade secret cases. Below, we continue with some of the top trade secret cases and subject matter the courts addressed in 2023.

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Apple Watches Back on Sale After CAFC Grants Interim Stay of ITC Order

IP Watchdog

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) stayed the International Trade Commission’s (ITC’s) October 26 Limited Exclusion Order (LEO) against certain Apple Watches that the ITC found infringed on two Masimo patents that covered technology related to reading blood-oxygen levels. The CAFC does not appear to have published the order on its public website but it is widely available online.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.