Merus B.V. moved for dismissal, arguing the Federal Circuit created an “off-ramp” for patent cases by holding in K-Tech Telecomms., Inc. v. Time Warner Cable, Inc., 714 F.3d 1277 (Fed. Cir. 2013), ...
December 1, 2020 will mark the five-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s abrogation of Form 18—the model complaint that provided the minimum requirements for stating a claim of direct infringement.
For nearly a decade, complaints in almost all civil suits have been examined under the “plausibility standard” introduced by the Supreme Court in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and reiterated two ...
Lyda v. CBS Corp., (Fed. Cir. Sept. 30, 2016) (Before Reyna, Hughes, and Stoll, J.) (Opinion for the court, Stoll, J.) The Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) for ...