By Memorandum Order entered by The Honorable Richard G. Andrews in Lithero, LLC v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Civil Action No. 19-2320-RGA (D.Del. August 13, 2020), the Court found that Plaintiff failed to plead a plausible trade secret misappropriation claim under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) despite the fact that the Court had
Patent Infringement
Following ANDA Trial, Chief Judge Stark Finds Remaining Defendants’ Proposed Drug Products Infringe Asserted Claims of Patents-in-Suit Connected to Plaintiffs’ Eliquis® Product
By Opinion entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. et al v. Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 17-374-LPS (D.Del. August 5, 2020)(consolidated) following a nine (9) day bench trial, the Court found that defendant Sigmapharm’s ANDA products infringe the asserted claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,967,208…
Judge Connolly Grants Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Patent Infringement Claims in Part and Denies in Part
By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Colm F. Connolly in Dynamic Data Technologies, LLC v. Brightcove Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 19-1190-CFC (D.Del. July 20, 2020), the Court denied in part and granted in part Defendants’ motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s fifteen (15) count complaint for failure to state a claim under Federal…
Civil and Criminal Jury Trials in the District of Delaware Will Not Resume Until At Least August 31, 2020 due to COVID-19
Due to public safety concerns caused by COVID-19, by Standing Order entered by Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark dated July 16, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware continued all civil and criminal jury selections and jury trials scheduled to begin before August 31, 2020 until further order of the Court. …
Judge Connolly Dismisses Plaintiff’s Claims Seeking Declaratory Judgment of Non-Infringement for Failure to Establish Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction
By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Colm F. Connolly in Power Integrations, Inc. v. CogniPower LLC, Civil Action No. 20-15-CFC (D.Del. July 1, 2020), the Court granted Defendant’s motion to dismiss counts 3, 4, and 5 of the Complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) after finding that Plaintiff failed to…
Business Litigation in Delaware State Courts
Although I typically blog on intellectual property and antitrust cases in federal court in Delaware, attached for readers of the Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog are links to two articles that I recently co-authored and published on (1) obtaining temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions in Delaware Chancery Court and (2) adjudicating business disputes in …
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District of Delaware Adopts Re-Opening Guidelines and Will Commence Phase One Operations on June 17, 2020
By Order dated June 15, 2020 and issued by Chief Judge Stark, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware issued and adopted its re-opening guidelines that includes four phases of re-opening. Phase One of the re-opening will commence on Wednesday, June 17, 2020.
Phase One involves the court’s initial emergence from strict…
Chief Judge Stark Denies Defendants’ Motion Seeking Litigation Funding-Related Discovery in Patent Infringement Action
By Memorandum Order entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in United Access Technologies, LLC v. AT&T Corp. et al., Civil Action No. 11-338-LPS (D.Del. June 12, 2020), the Court denied the motion of Defendants AT&T Corp., AT&T Services Inc. and SBC Internet Services, Inc. (collectively, “AT&T”) seeking to compel certain litigation funding-related discovery…
Update on Court Operations in Delaware (both Federal and State) Under Exigent Circumstances Created by COVID-19 – as of May 30, 2020
With courts across the United States in different and various stages of re-opening to get back to some level of normalcy under the exigent circumstances created by the global coronavirus pandemic, I thought it would be helpful to my clients, co-counsel, and others outside of Delaware to provide an update on the Courts’ operations in…