In response to a patent enforcement suit by SanDisk, ST Microelectronic’s filed an antitrust counter-claim arguing that SanDisk’s enforcement action was a sham and that it had obtained its patent fraudulently. The court dismissed the sham litigation counterclaim on the ground that SanDisk’s claim was not objectively groundless. It found sufficient allegations of fraud on […]
Category Archives: Patent Litigation
Court Dismisses Sham Litigation Claim, Permits Walker Process Claim to Proceed
October 22, 2008 – 9:33 am
Broadcom Files New Patent Case Against Qualcomm
October 9, 2008 – 12:55 pm
Broadcom has filed a new patent claim in the Southern District of California arguing that Qualcomm has improperly required customers who purchase chipsets for use in cell phone handsets to pay additional licensing fees when the handsets are sold. In Quanta Computer v. LG Electronics, 128 S. Ct. 2109 (2008), the U.S. Supreme Court recently […]
Case Alleges that SmithKline Beecham Anticompetitive Delayed Generic Flonase
August 25, 2008 – 11:54 am
July 2009: In a case brought by Roxane Laboratories, Judge Anita Brody, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, denied SKB’s motion to dismiss after the plaintiff amended the complaint to allege specific reasons to believe that it’s ANDA would have been approved for generic Flonase were it not for SKB’s strategically filed consumer complaints. Roxane alleged that it […]