The tenuous nature of an exclusive licensee’s standing to enforce a patent was something I learned early in my legal career, when I was a judicial clerk at the Federal Circuit. In Alps South LLC v.

Addressing the issue of standing, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a patent case brought by an exclusive licensee, finding that the original ...

“The Federal Circuit explained that by ‘virtue of the reformation, the written instrument was corrected nunc pro tunc, to the point of the assignment.’” On May 13, 2020, the United States Court of ...