Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. v. Seirus Innovative Accessories

  1. January 10, 2025

    Columbia Sportswear Tries To Extinguish Patent Challenge

    Columbia Sportswear wants a California federal judge to change his mind about letting a rival pursue a defense in a long-running legal fight over a heat lining design patent, saying that "new facts have emerged" about a challenge to that same patent at the patent office. 

  2. October 31, 2024

    'Extraordinary' Fed. Circ. Ruling Revives Seirus Invalidity Row

    Seirus Innovative Accessories Inc. will be able to pursue its defense that a Columbia Sportswear clothing design patent is invalid as obvious "under the new, less-rigid approach" established by the Federal Circuit in an "extraordinary" decision earlier this year, a California federal judge ruled.

  3. August 09, 2021

    Columbia Sportswear's Patent Claims Fall Short At Trial

    Columbia Sportswear failed to convince a California federal jury of claims that a smaller rival infringed a jacket-lining design patent, almost four years after a different jury awarded Columbia $3.4 million in a verdict that was later thrown out.

  4. July 29, 2021

    IP Forecast: Fed. Circ. To Mull Narcan Patents

    Emergent BioSolutions' grip on its blockbuster opioid overdose medication Narcan is at stake in a patent case that reaches the Federal Circuit on Monday. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.

  5. November 17, 2017

    Judge Halts Post-Trial Patent Re-Examination Bid

    A federal judge granted an emergency restraining order on Thursday to bar sportswear maker Seirus Innovative Accessories, facing a $3.4 million judgment in a trial against Columbia Sportswear North America Inc. over jacket lining patents, from rebooting the California court fight in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

  6. October 03, 2017

    Jury Grants Columbia Sportswear $3.4M In IP Suit

    A California federal jury awarded Columbia Sportswear North America Inc. $3.4 million in its patent infringement suit against Seirus Innovative Accessories over the designs of cold-weather gear, invalidating Columbia's utility patent, but finding Seirus' products infringe a valid design patent.

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