Brann & Isaacson Wins Summary Judgment in Maine Design Patent Case

On August 29, 2023, U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy of the District of Maine granted a motion for summary judgment filed by Peter J. Brann, David Swetnam-Burland, and Stacy O. Stitham, on behalf of Brann & Isaacson client The Armaid Company. Judge Levy agreed with the B&I team that Armaid had not infringed a...

B&I Defeats Preliminary Injunction Motion in Maine Patent Case

On August 6, Chief Judge Jon Levy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine sided with Brann & Isaacson client, Armaid, and denied a motion for preliminary injunction filed by the plaintiff, Range of Motion Products. After briefing and oral argument from partner Peter Brann, Judge Levy issued a comprehensive, 31-page ruling...

What’s Your Damage, Apple?

The opinion of the Supreme Court is in, in Samsung v. Apple, and the news is not appetizing for Apple. Justice Sotomayor, writing for a unanimous Court, did just enough to (temporarily?) undo the $399–million verdict Apple had secured in this skirmish of the smartphone wars for infringement of its design patents. But the Court...

The Role of Design Patents in Patent Troll’s Litigation Designs

The business world snapped to attention when Apple obtained a $400 million verdict from Samsung in a dispute largely focused on design patents covering how smart–phones look. The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the question of how to assign damages for design patent infringement—that is, how to distinguish between the value of the...