American Bar Association Preliminary Relief in Patent Infringement Disputes

Preliminary relief can play a critical role in facilitating resolution of a patent infringement dispute. The Supreme Court's decision in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, LLC (which dealt with permanent injunctions in patent cases) changed the legal landscape in the area of preliminary relief in the minds of many judges. Preliminary Relief in Patent Infringement Disputes examines the issues that are most important in seeking preliminary injunctive relief in a patent case and provides a pertinent review of how such injunction requests have been treated by the Federal Circuit and district courts since the important eBay decision. Beginning with an overview of how preliminary relief is addressed in patent and intellectual property cases, the balance of the book examines Federal Circuit cases and 112 selected district court cases to show how preliminary injunction requests have been treated since the Supreme Court's 2006 eBay decision. It identifies the judges in the Federal Circuit and district court cases and supplies tables identifying the Federal Circuit and the district court cases in chronological order.