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A district court may impose additional sanctions under its inherent power on top of awarding attorney fees and costs under Section 285.
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If a property of a claimed composition is inherent, then there is no requirement to show a reasonable expectation of success of achieving the claimed composition when combining prior art references to prove obviousness.
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Expert opinions that are based on unsupported evidence are not sufficient to create a dispute of material fact in order to overcome summary judgment.
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A motion to dismiss an appeal after the court has already issued a decision is often improper, even when the parties have not made a request to vacate the opinion.
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Proving infringement by the doctrine of equivalents requires particularized evidence that comes from the perspective of a person skilled in the art. This standard does not change based on the complexity of the claimed technology.
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A domestic case may be dispositive of a foreign case for the purpose of an antisuit injunction even if the case only resolves the issue of a temporary injunction and not the entire proceeding. To be dispositive, it is only required that the domestic case has the potential to resolve the foreign issue.
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A court may engage in claim construction when deciding a motion to dismiss without a separate claim construction proceeding. A plural claim term may mean one or more if there is sufficient evidence to overcome the presumption that the plural term requires at least two.
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A trial court’s decision regarding whether an allegation is well-pled and factual or merely a conclusory legal statement is reviewed de novo.
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