The Obviousness Ruling's Impact on Patent Cases
Jul 31, 2007
An article in today's The Wall Street Journal explores how the Supreme Court's April ruling on the obviousness of patents (KSR International v. Teleflex Inc.) is impacting infringement cases. It reports that a lower-court judge in San Francisco last week dismissed a patent infringement case against RealNetworks citing the KSR v. Teleflex decision, and other judges have also considered the ruling in their deliberations.
According to the Journal, "more decisions like the RealNetworks case could give companies leverage against patent-holding firms and pressure those firms to settle disputes rather than risk a court ruling invalidating their patents outright." The full article can be read here (sub required).
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KSR, Patents, RealNetworks, Supreme Court
