{"id":151,"date":"2017-04-02T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2019-07-29T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T14:53:19","slug":"supreme-court-eliminates-laches-defense-in-patent-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/supreme-court-eliminates-laches-defense-in-patent-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Eliminates Laches Defense in Patent Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Supreme Court of the United States in&nbsp;<em>SCA Hygiene Prods. Aktiebolag, et al. v. First Quality Baby Prods., LLC, et al. dated March 21, 2017<\/em>, has held that the equitable defense of laches is no longer a valid defense to patent damages claims brought within the six-year damages limitation period of 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 286.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Section 286<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cExcept as otherwise provided bylaw,&nbsp;<strong>no recovery<\/strong>&nbsp;shall be had for any infringement committed&nbsp;<strong>more than six years prior to the filing of the complaint or counterclaim<\/strong>&nbsp;for infringement in the action.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>section 282(b)1<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe following shall be defenses in any action involving the validity or infringement of a patent and shall be pleaded:\u201c(1) Noninfringement, absence of liability for infringement or&nbsp;<strong>unenforceability<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full case by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipaatentiti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/laches_limitation-period-for-claiming-infringment.pdf\">clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of the United States in&nbsp;SCA Hygiene Prods. Aktiebolag, et al. v. First Quality Baby Prods., LLC, et al. dated March 21, 2017, has held that the equitable defense of laches is no longer a valid defense to patent damages claims brought within the six-year damages limitation period of 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 286. Section 286 \u201cExcept as otherwise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipaatentiti","category-ipr","category-patent","category-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipaatentiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}