A Locke Lord Chicago team including Wasim Bleibel and Hugh Balsam (Appeals) secured a final ruling in favor of Adkins Energy LLC, as the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition filed by GS CleanTech Corp. seeking review of a Federal Circuit decision affirming, among other lower court rulings, that CleanTech’s asserted patents were unenforceable due to inequitable conduct before the U.S. Patent Office. The Federal Circuit decides very few inequitable conduct cases, and final Supreme Court review is sought in even fewer cases.
Posted on March 1, 2021