District Court Abused Discretion in Not Finding Case Exceptional -
In Rothschild Connected Devices v. Guardian Protection Services, Appeal No. 2016-2521, the Federal Circuit held that a district court abused its discretion...more
8/18/2017
/ Abuse of Discretion ,
Appeals ,
Attorney's Fees ,
BPCIA ,
Commercial Marketing ,
Exceptional Case ,
FRCP 11 ,
Indefiniteness ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Judgment on the Pleadings ,
Means-Plus-Function ,
Motion for Sanctions ,
Notice Requirements ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Prior Art ,
Reversal ,
Safe Harbors ,
Sandoz v Amgen ,
SCOTUS ,
Section 101 ,
Section 102
Inter Partes Reexamination Estoppel Attaches On Claim-by-Claim Basis for New Requests and Pending Proceedings -
In In re Affinity Labs Of Texas, LLC, Appeal Nos. 2016-1092, 2016-1172, the Federal Circuit held that the...more
7/12/2017
/ Appeals ,
Breach of Contract ,
Claim Construction ,
Doctrine of Prosecution Disclaimer ,
Estoppel ,
Ex Partes Reexamination ,
First Sale Doctrine ,
Forum Shopping ,
Impression Products v Lexmark International ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
International Sales ,
Noninfringement ,
Patent Exhaustion ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Owner Preliminary Response ,
Patent Ownership ,
Patents ,
Principal Place of Business ,
SCOTUS ,
State of Incorporation ,
TC Heartland LLC v Kraft Foods ,
Venue
Federal Circuit Affirms Different Invalidity Results at PTAB and District Court -
In Novartis AG v. Noven Pharmaceuticals Inc., Appeal Nos. 2016-1678, 2016-1679, the Federal Circuit held that prior judicial opinions...more
6/8/2017
/ Abstract Ideas ,
Appeals ,
Burden of Proof ,
Claim Construction ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Final Written Decisions ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
JMOL ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Section 101
Federal Circuit Remands IPR Final Decision For Inadequate Obviousness Analysis, Sidesteps Issue of Proper Claim Construction Standard -
In Personal Web Technologies, LLC v. Apple, Inc., Appeal No. 2016-1174, the Federal...more
4/3/2017
/ 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1) ,
Appeals ,
Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard ,
Claim Construction ,
Component Parts Doctrine ,
Covered Business Method Patents ,
Covered Business Method Proceedings ,
Fairness Standard ,
Forum State ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Life Technologies Corp v Promega Corp ,
Minimum Contacts ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Validity ,
Patents ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Reasonable Person Test ,
SCOTUS ,
Standard of Review
“Common Sense” Alone Is Not a Sufficient Motivation to Combine References -
In In Re: Van Os, Appeal No. 2015-1975, the Federal Circuit held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s reliance on intuition or common sense...more
3/9/2017
/ Appeals ,
Burden of Production ,
Divided Infringement ,
Inducements ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Product Labels ,
Remand ,
Standard of Review ,
Standing ,
Vacated
PTAB’s Final Written Decision in IPR Must Explain Its Basis for a Motivation to Combine References -
In In Re: Nuvasive, Inc., Appeal No. 2015-1670, the Federal Circuit vacated the PTAB’s obviousness finding in an IPR,...more
2/18/2017
/ Appeals ,
Claim Construction ,
Divided Infringement ,
Doctrine of Equivalents ,
Evidence ,
Induced Infringement ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Reversal
Withdrawal of Claims During Prosecution Can Trigger Prosecution History Estoppel In UCB, Inc. v. Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd., Appeal No. 2015-1957, the Federal Circuit held that prosecution estoppel can apply even...more
11/2/2016
/ Animation ,
Appeals ,
Assignment of Inventions ,
Assignor Estoppel ,
Attorney's Fees ,
Claim Construction ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Enhanced Damages ,
Estoppel ,
Exceptional Case ,
Halo v Pulse ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Inventors ,
Method Claims ,
Non-Appealable Decisions ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Ownership ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Post-Grant Review ,
Preponderance of the Evidence ,
Prior Art ,
Reversal ,
Reviewability Determinations ,
Seagate ,
Section 101 ,
Software Patents ,
Totality of Circumstances Test ,
Willful Infringement
Claims Directed to Monitoring and Analyzing Data Held to Be Invalid under § 101 -
In Electric Power Group, LLC v. Alstom S.A., Appeal No. 2015-1778, the Federal Circuit upheld the district court’s grant of summary...more
10/6/2016
/ 35 U.S.C. § 284 ,
Abstract Ideas ,
Appeals ,
Claim Construction ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Enhanced Damages ,
Evidence ,
FRCP 52(a)(2) ,
Halo v Pulse ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Motions to Stay Proceedings ,
Myriad-Mayo ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Prior Art ,
Reaffirmation ,
Remand ,
Reversal ,
Section 101 ,
Summary Judgment ,
Willful Infringement
Obvious Combinations Do Not Need to Be Physically Combinable -
In Allied Erecting and Dismantling Co., Inc. v. Genesis Attachments, LLC, Appeal No. 2015-1533, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s invalidity finding...more
7/28/2016
/ 35 U.S.C. § 284 ,
Appeals ,
Attorney's Fees ,
Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard ,
Claim Construction ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Cuozzo Speed Technologies v Lee ,
Enhanced Damages ,
Fee-Shifting ,
Halo v Pulse ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons ,
Objective Unreasonableness Standard ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Rebuttable Presumptions ,
SCOTUS ,
Standard of Review ,
Willful Infringement
The PTAB Does Not Have to Consider New Arguments Raised in IPR Reply Briefs -
In Intelligent Bio-Systems, Inc. v. Illumina Cambridge Ltd., Appeal No. 2015-1693, the Federal Circuit upheld a PTAB decision finding of...more
6/27/2016
/ Abstract Ideas ,
Appeals ,
Burden of Proof ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Dismissals ,
Enfish v Microsoft ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Motion to Amend ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Assignment and Transfer Agreement (PATA) ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patent-in-Suit ,
Prior Art ,
Section 101 ,
Software Patents ,
Standing
Federal Circuit Construes Claim Term in a Manner that Rendered Claim Language Superfluous -
In SimpleAir, Inc. v. Sony Ericsson Mobile Commc’ns AB, Appeal No. 2015-1251, the Federal Circuit vacated the district court’s...more
5/31/2016
/ Abuse of Discretion ,
Appeals ,
Claim Construction ,
Equitable Estoppel ,
Ex Partes Reexamination ,
Google ,
Hewlett-Packard ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Judgment As A Matter Of Law ,
Judicial Review ,
Motion to Vacate ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent-in-Suit ,
Patents ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Res Judicata ,
Sprint ,
Summary Judgment ,
Transfer of Venue ,
Venue ,
Writ of Mandamus
Federal Circuit Upholds Broad Scope of CBM Review and Explains that an Internet Reference Must be Indexed by a Search Engine to Qualify as a Prior Art Publication -
In Blue Calypso, LLC v. Groupon, Inc., Appeal Nos....more
5/2/2016
/ Appeals ,
Claim Construction ,
Covered Business Method Patents ,
Covered Business Method Proceedings ,
Estoppel ,
Forum Non Conveniens ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Patent Agent Privilege ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
USPTO
Federal Circuit Dismisses an Appeal of an Inter Partes Reexamination for Lack of Standing Where the Appellant Failed to Establish that it was the Successor-in-Interest to the Original Petitioner -
In Agilent...more
3/1/2016
/ Appeals ,
Claim Construction ,
Indefiniteness ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Section 101 ,
Standing ,
Successor Interests ,
Summary Judgment ,
USPTO
The Federal Circuit Will Review Appeals from Inter Partes Review Proceedings Under the “Substantial Evidence” Standard -
In Merck & Cie v. Gnosis S.p.A., Appeal No. 2014-1779, the Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB IPR...more
2/1/2016
/ Apple ,
Article III ,
Burden of Proof ,
Cisco ,
Covered Business Method Proceedings ,
Hewlett-Packard ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Merck ,
Motion to Amend ,
Myriad-Mayo ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Royalties ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Sequenom ,
Seventh Amendment ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
Substantial Evidence Standard ,
USPTO
Expert Testimony Not Always Necessary to Establish Prima Facie Obviousness Case in Inter Partes Review -
In Belden Inc. v. Berk-Tek LLC, Appeal Nos. 2014-1575, 2014-1576, on appeal from an IPR, the Federal Circuit...more
12/28/2015
/ Appeals ,
Claim Construction ,
Expert Testimony ,
Incorporated by Reference ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
International Litigation ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Jurisdiction ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Prior Art