Why Strengthen Your Medical Device Patent Portfolio For Infringement Litigati...SHIMOKAJI IP
A 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers survey indicates that for about the last dozen years the medical device industry represents 9% of all patent infringement cases. This puts the medical device industry in the top 10% of all industries for patent infringement cases, and with a ranking of 5th out of a total of 20 ranked industries. In that same period, the median damages award in the medical device industry was $53M.
We often hear that the vast majority of patent infringement cases settle. But what we usually do not hear is why they settled and on what terms did they settled.
Strengthening your patent portfolio has the obvious benefit of strengthening your ability to assert patent infringement claims. But it can also minimize the potential of being the recipient of patent infringement claims. Here’s how.
Frequently, patent infringement lawsuits follow a cease and desist letter. What follows a cease and desist letter but before the filing of suit can be lengthy discussions about the infringement and invalidity of the patent at issue. What may also be the subject of these pre-lawsuit discussions is potential counterclaims of patent infringement – infringement claims being made against the party who sent the initial cease and desist letter.
Why Strengthen Your Medical Device Patent Portfolio For Infringement Litigati...SHIMOKAJI IP
A 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers survey indicates that for about the last dozen years the medical device industry represents 9% of all patent infringement cases. This puts the medical device industry in the top 10% of all industries for patent infringement cases, and with a ranking of 5th out of a total of 20 ranked industries. In that same period, the median damages award in the medical device industry was $53M.
We often hear that the vast majority of patent infringement cases settle. But what we usually do not hear is why they settled and on what terms did they settled.
Strengthening your patent portfolio has the obvious benefit of strengthening your ability to assert patent infringement claims. But it can also minimize the potential of being the recipient of patent infringement claims. Here’s how.
Frequently, patent infringement lawsuits follow a cease and desist letter. What follows a cease and desist letter but before the filing of suit can be lengthy discussions about the infringement and invalidity of the patent at issue. What may also be the subject of these pre-lawsuit discussions is potential counterclaims of patent infringement – infringement claims being made against the party who sent the initial cease and desist letter.
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When tasting gets global over the Internet there is no boundaries to what people can collaborate about. TwitterTasteLive is an interesting phenomenon. This is an article I wrote in the January issue 2009 of Urban Lifestyle Report - New Media.
Sales Methodology - It's Your Sales ReligionKlozers
Choosing the best fit Sales Methodology for your business can be the difference between success and failure, yet few people understand the differences.
This presentation was given by me on the engineers day at my collage just next day after the actual iPhone 5 launch event, So some info can be missing!
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The story about the development of Sustainability movement and concrete actions at Central European University. Presented by Logan Strenchock, Environmental and Sustainability Officer at Central European University, Hungary