. License Agreement Not Enough for Standing on Appeal of an IPR Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc.
By EsqSocial Corporation 18/05/21
In a precedential decision, the Federal Circuit held that Apple lacked standing to appeal from its loss as petitioner in a couple of inter partes reviews (IPRs) against patent owner Qualcomm. Background - Qualcomm sued Apple in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California for infringing claims of two patents, U.S. Patent No. 7,844,037 (the ‘037 patent) and U.S. Patent No. 8,683,362 (the ‘362 patent). Apple sought an IPR of claims 1-14, 16-18 and 19-25 of the ‘037...
By: Foley & Lardner LLP