Federal Circuit Summary -
Before Dyk, Taranto, Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The PTAB is not required to make any finding regarding a motivation to combine two references when it...more
Federal Circuit Summary -
Before Dyk, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
Summary: In the context of a suit for a declaration of non-infringement and...more
12/4/2018
/ Appeals ,
China ,
Declaratory Judgments ,
Dismissals ,
Foreign Defendants ,
Forum State ,
International Litigation ,
Minimum Contacts ,
Nonobvious ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Reaffirmation ,
Specific Jurisdiction ,
State Law Claims ,
Tortious Interference
Federal Circuit Summary -
Before Prost, Schall, and Chen. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The plain language of 35 U.S.C. § 311(a) unambiguously leaves no room for assignor estoppel to apply in...more
11/13/2018
/ 35 U.S.C. § 311(a) ,
Appeals ,
Assignor Estoppel ,
Claim Construction ,
Cross-Appeals ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Validity ,
Patents ,
Reaffirmation ,
Remand ,
Reversal
Federal Circuit Summary -
Before O’Malley, Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: While obviousness of apparatus claims “capable of” a particular function may be shown by...more
Federal Circuit Summary -
Before Lourie, Dyk, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The section 315(b) time-bar for IPRs applies even when the underlying complaint alleging infringement...more
8/29/2018
/ § 315(b) ,
Appeals ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Reaffirmation ,
Time-Barred Claims ,
Vacated ,
Voluntary Dismissals
Federal Circuit Summaries -
Before Prost, Moore, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: An IPR petitioner bears the burden of persuasion concerning the patentability of proposed substitute...more
6/21/2018
/ Anticipation ,
Appeals ,
Burden of Persuasion ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Motion to Amend ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Reaffirmation ,
Remand ,
Substitute Claims ,
Vacated
The Federal Circuit affirmed-in-part and reversed-in-part the PTAB’s final written decisions on Wasica’s tire pressure monitoring patents in Wasica Finance GmbH v. Continental Automotive Sys., Inc., No. 2015-2078 (Fed. Cir....more
The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s final written decisions holding that claims directed to Novartis’s dementia drug compositions containing Exelon were obvious in Novartis AG v. Noven Pharm. Inc., No. 2016-1679 (Fed....more
4/19/2017
/ Appeals ,
Burden of Proof ,
Clear and Convincing Evidence ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Novartis ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Preponderance of the Evidence ,
Prior Art ,
Reaffirmation