In patent law, the term "inequitable conduct" describes misconduct by the applicant that deceives or misleads the examiner into granting the patent by omitting or misrepresenting information ...

Robert Sarver, owner of the NBA's Phoenix Suns and the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, has been suspended one year and fined $10 million by the NBA as a result of an investigation into the Suns franchise ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would not revisit its May 4 ruling that a patent owned by Heat-On-The-Fly LLC (HOTF) was unenforceable because of inequitable conduct at ...

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The above outcome appears to be a very inequitable manner for finding inequitable conduct since intent to deceive is personal to the individual having the duty of disclosure under 37 CFR 1.56.

Therasense v. Becton, Dickinson and Co., 649 F.3d 1276, 1289-90 (Fed. Cir. 2011). Inequitable conduct can also “spill over” to render unenforceable other patents within the same patent family.

Inequitable conduct took center stage last month in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals v. Merus N.V., 2016-1346 (Fed. Cir. 2017).

A federal judge has dismissed a claim by medical device maker C.R. Bard Inc accusing rival Medline Industries Inc of obtaining a patent on a urinary catheter kit by deceiving the U.S. Patent and ...

Sandton Capital Partners, the principal secured creditor owed $37.9 million by the Free Lance-Star Publishing Co., employed an “overly zealous loan-to-own strategy” and engaged in ...