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(Clearwater lawyer) Kinetic Concepts, Inc. v. Blue Sky Med. Group, Inc.

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(U.S. Fed. Cir., Evidence, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent) In a patent case involving patents for treating difficult-to-heal wounds by applying suction, various trial court rulings are affirmed over claims: 1) by defendants that the trial court erred in denying their motion for judgment as a matter of law on obviousness, and their alternative motion for a new trial on obviousness; 2) by defendants that the district court erred in its construction of “wound” and its failure to find several claim terms indefinite; and 3) by plaintiff that the court erred in denying its motion for judgment as a matter of law of infringement, or, in the alternative, its request for a new trial on infringement.


Rein v. US Patent
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Trademark Office

(U.S. 4th Cir., Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent, Trademark) In a civil action alleging defendant-agencies did not conduct an adequate search for documents requested by plaintiff-law firm under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and that defendant-agencies improperly withheld documents as exempt which were discovered during the search, award of summary judgment to defendant-agencies is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) the district court erred in finding the Vaughn index contained adequate descriptive information to determine whether the challenged documents were properly withheld in whole or in part; 2) the district court did not err in holding the defendant-agencies properly withheld the challenged documents in whole or in part based on the deliberative process privilege; 3) the district court did it err in concluding the challenged redacted documents did not contain segregable material; and 4) the district court did not err in concluding the PTO properly withheld or redacted materials based on the attorney-client privilege, as protected by Exemption 5.

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