Other Barks & Bites for Friday, August 19: Eleventh Circuit Holds Party to Willful Blindness Standard in DMCA Case, Seventh Circuit Finds Personal Jurisdiction Over Chinese NBA Counterfeiter, and Fifth Circuit Accepts Jurisdiction Over Walker Process Claims for Patent Fraud

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit rules that Eagle Pharmaceutical’s ANDA defines a product that does not infringe upon Par Pharmaceutical’s patents covering Vasostrict; an inventor amicus brief in the OpenSky IPR asks USPTO Director Vidal to mandate sanctions for abuse of PTAB process; the Seventh Circuit affirms a default judgment against a Chinese counterfeiter of sports merchandise after finding personal jurisdiction over the defendant; the Fifth Circuit accepts the Federal Circuit’s transfer of Walker Process claims over the fraudulent obtaining of patent claims despite a jurisdictional disagreement; the Eleventh Circuit finds that Day To Day Imports could not appeal the district court’s application of the willful blindness standard to its alleged violation of Section 512; and members of the House Science Committee call upon the Biden Administration to make a robust investment into the DoE’s Office of Science.Read More