Panel Reverses and Remands Decision in N.D. Cal. on Validity of Software Patents for Structuring Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Networks for Videos and Video Games CHICAGO — The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today issued a precedential decision favoring Raleigh, NC-based Cooperative Entertainment, Inc., announced Meredith Martin Addy, co-founder and a partner at intellectual…

Wildcat Licensing WI LLC Contends “Nonsensical” Legal Error after PTAB’s Adverse Rulings CHICAGO – Chicago- and Atlanta-based patent litigation firm AddyHart P.C. has been asked to represent manufacturing and parts assembly patentee Wildcat Licensing WI LLC (“Wildcat”) on appeal of two decisions on obviousness favoring petitioners Atlas Copco Tools and Assembly Systems LLC, General Motors…

Brandon C. Helms, a litigator and patent attorney who has split his 15-year career equally between private practice and federal service as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan, has joined AddyHart P.C. as a partner in its Chicago office. “We are thrilled to welcome Brandon to AddyHart,” said firm co-founder…

Meredith Addy and Robert Hart, co-founding partners at litigation and intellectual property law firm AddyHart P.C., will be joined by AddyHart partner and patent litigator Charles “Chad” Pannell III as featured speakers and panelists at the second annual Patent Litigation Masters program, part of IPWatchdog’s Masters Symposia Series to be presented May 23 and May…

Meredith Martin Addy, co-founder and a partner at intellectual property and corporate litigation firm AddyHart P.C., has for the sixteenth year in a row been ranked in Best Lawyers in America by U.S. News & World Report, in its 2022 edition of the “Best Law Firms” rankings. AddyHart P.C. is nationally ranked in Tier 3…

Chicago, Ill. – Meredith Addy and Robert Hart, co-founding partners at litigation and intellectual property law firm AddyHart P.C., will be joined this year by AddyHart partner and patent attorney Gregory B. Gulliver as presenters at the second annual PTAB Masters program, presented by IPWatchdog®, to be held virtually from January 24–27, 2022. PTAB Masters…

CHICAGO—AddyHart P.C., today announced the favorable settlement for its client Thales Visionix Inc. (“Thales”) in Thales’ patent infringement case against the US government relating to helmet-mounted display systems (HMDS) developed for use in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Thales Visionix, a division of Clarksburg, MD-based Thales Defense & Security, Inc., had sued the federal government…

Meredith Martin Addy, co-founder and partner at intellectual property and corporate litigation firm AddyHart P.C., will be a featured panelist on two panels at IPWatchdog’s upcoming conference, The Patent Panels at IPWatchdog LIVE, September 12–14, 2021, at the Renaissance Dallas Richardson in Dallas, Tex. On Monday, Sept. 13, Addy joins a panel to discuss “A…

Meredith Addy is one of the five female private-sector litigators who most frequently argued in the past decade before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, finds a recent study of gender diversity among lawyers who handle patent cases in the nation’s courts. AddyHart P.C. co-founder Addy also is one of only two…

Patent litigators Meredith Addy, Robert P. Hart, and Gregory B. Gulliver of AddyHart P.C. are counsel for Thales DIS AIS Deutschland GmbH on nine new petitions for inter partes review filed in the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) in the first half of 2021 against US patents of Luxembourg-based…