August 08, 2024
General Motors Co. says that it has come to a deal with a Chicago auto parts supplier who went all the way to the full Federal Circuit — and changed design patent jurisprudence — in a now-abandoned challenge to a patent covering the design of a front fender.
July 15, 2024
LKQ Corp. and General Motors Co. are looking to come to a deal to settle a legal dispute over GM's design patent covering fenders at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
August 05, 2021
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has upheld the sole disputed claim in a General Motors patent covering a fender design, despite a judge's earlier comment that challenger LKQ Corp.'s position was "rocking the whole world" of her views about design patent cases.
April 27, 2021
LKQ Corp. fought Tuesday to knock out a GM fender design patent by arguing that it was anticipated by prior art based on an "ordinary observer's" point of view, an argument that seemed to surprise one judge during a Patent Trial and Appeal Board hearing.
April 22, 2021
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap's schedule is packed next Friday with jury selection on tap in three patent infringement suits, including a dispute between Japan-based Gree and Clash of Clans game maker Supercell Oy. Here is a look at those cases plus other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.