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McKool Smith served as lead counsel to Givaudan Fragrances Corporation in securing a victory for corporate policyholders with far reaching implications in protecting a ...

Previous comments on anti-bribery enforcement endorsed by Jay Clayton, chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, have ...

McKool Smith's victory on behalf of Warren Pumps In the Matter of Viking Pump Inc. and Warren Pumps LLC Insurance Appeals, topped Law360’s listing of the “Biggest ...

McKool Smith has received numerous accolades in the 2017 "Best Law Firms" rankings recently released by U.S. News - Best Lawyers. The firm received 26 “Tier 1” ...

Judge Jan Jurden of the Delaware Superior Court granted summary judgment in favor of McKool Smith's client, retirement services provider TIAA-CREF, finding that a civil ...

An Iowa federal judge granted summary judgment to McKool Smith's client, window and door manufacturer Pella Corporation, ruling that  Liberty Mutual Insurance must cover ...

Benchmark Litigation, the definitive guide to America's leading litigation firms and attorneys, has ranked McKool Smith Tier 1 in intellectual property and insurance ...

The study classifies PAEs into two categories: Portfolio PAEs and Litigation PAEs. Portfolio PAEs are strongly capitalized, purchase patents outright, and negotiate ...

To better understand how PAE behavior compares with the behavior of other firms that assert patents, the FTC conducted a case study focused on litigation and licensing ...

The study “recognizes that infringement litigation plays an important role in protecting patent rights, and that a robust judicial system promotes respect for the ...

The study provides empirical evidence confirming that only a very limited subset of PAEs (i.e. certain Litigation PAEs) engage in what has been deemed by some observers and ...

The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment that Electric Power’s claims are invalid under Section 101 for being directed to patent ...

The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of GPNE’s post-trial motions following the jury’s verdict of non-infringement.  The patents-at-issue are ...

The district court stayed the entire infringement litigation—involving a total of five asserted patents—in light of the pending inter partes review of the three ...

The patent-at-issue related to multi-layer, thermoplastic stretch wrap films.  The independent claims of the patent included an element of “five identifiable inner ...

This case returned to the Federal Circuit from the Supreme Court following the Supreme Court’s decision rejecting the Seagate test for enhanced damages under Section 284 ...

The patent-at-issue relates to spinal surgery involving implanting an artificial implant between two adjacent vertebrae from a patient’s side.  The PTAB, in an IPR ...

This case involved an appeal of an ex parte reexamination of a patent that expired during the reexamination proceedings.  Here, after the examiner issued a final rejection ...

Vapor Point sued NanoVapor to add two of Vaper Point’s employees, who had previously worked at NanoVapor, as inventors on two of NanoVapor’s patents. NanoVapor ...

This case involved an appeal of an inter parte review decision in which the Board invalidated certain claims of a patent, because it found that the missing limitation in the ...

In an order granting the petition for rehearing en banc, the Federal Circuit vacated its previous panel decision in In re: Aqua Products, Inc., 823 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2016 ...

The district court granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment of invalidity based on lack of written description, under § 112(1). It reasoned that the invention ...

In an inter partes review, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, in addition to finding the challenged claims to be obvious, denied the patent owner’s motion to ...

On Monday, September 26, 2016, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus announced that Dallas principal Steve Wolens has been appointed to the eight-member Texas Ethics ...

McKool Smith is pleased to announce that 7 attorneys from the firm’s New York office have been selected for inclusion in the 2016 edition of New York Super Lawyers. The ...

As reported by the Delaware Business Court Insider on September 12, 2016, McKool Smith has secured another landmark decision for its client Warren Pumps LLC, this time from ...

McKool Smith is pleased to announce that 10 principals from the firm’s Austin, Dallas, and Houston offices have been selected for inclusion in the 2016 edition of ...

McKool Smith principal Sam Baxter has been awarded the Texas Lawyer 2016 “Lifetime Achievement Award” for Professional Excellence. The honor recognizes lawyers who ...

The claims-at-issue related to a method of producing a preparation of multi-cryopreserved hepatocytes that are capable of being frozen and thawed at least two times and in ...

This case involved a dispute over the meaning of the 42 U.S.C. § 262(l)(8)(A) notice provision involving companies seeking to obtain “biosimilar-product” licenses ...

This case involved product-by-process claims for a form of bivalirudin.  More than one year prior to the filing date of MedCo’s patent applications, it retained a company ...

Deca requested inter partes reexamination of Skyhawke’s patent.  The Examiner and the PTAB both agreed that Skyhawke’s patent was patentable over Deca’s prior art ...

WBIP’s patents related to marine engines for use on houseboats that produced reduced amounts of carbon monoxide exhaust.  Elevated amounts of carbon monoxide in engine ...

The Federal Circuit vacated the district court’s determination that it lacked personal jurisdiction over a Finnish defendant, Suunto.  Suunto received orders for ...

This case involved patents directed to a remote speech recognition system.  The district court construed the claims and, based on those constructions, granted Apple’s ...

The patent-at-issue involved technology in the field of oil drilling through the use of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”).  The Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB’s ...

Illumina (one of the plaintiffs) sued Ariosa for infringement of its non-invasive prenatal diagnostic test patents, and Ariosa countersued for breach of a supply ...

The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s indefiniteness determination. The district court had found that the terms “symbol generator” and “CPU ...