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Can’t Stop a Bull: Limits of Claim Preclusion

INGURAN, LLC, DBA STGENETICS v. ABS GLOBAL, INC., GENUS PLC - Before Lourie, Bryson, and Reyna. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Summary: Claim preclusion does not bar...more

Stipulated Dismissal Undercuts Bid for Attorneys’ Fees

UNITED CANNABIS CORPORATION V. PURE HEMP COLLECTIVE INC. Before Lourie, Cunningham, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Summary: The Federal Circuit affirmed the...more

A Leap of Good Faith: When Cries of “They Copied Us” Cannot Be Stopped

LINE-NETICS, LLC v. NU TSAI CAPITAL LLC - Before Lourie, Taranto, and Stark. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska. Summary: Courts cannot enjoin speech by patentholders to third parties...more

Failure to Convert Dismissal Into Summary Judgment Deemed Harmless

HAWKS TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS, LLC v. CASTLE RETAIL, LLC - Before Reyna, Hughes, and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. Summary: A court’s failure to exclude...more

Expert Testimony That Contradicts Patent Specification Fails to Create a Genuine Issue of Fact in a Patent Eligibility Dispute

CAREDX, INC. V. NATERA, INC. Before Lourie, Bryson, and Hughes - Summary: Expert testimony that steps of challenged patent claims were unconventional failed to preclude summary judgment of ineligibility where...more

Famous Trademark Not Abandoned After Original Owner’s Bankruptcy

TIGER LILY VENTURES LTD. v. BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. Before Lourie, Bryson, and Prost.  Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: A trademark associated with a...more

Construction That Eliminates Entire Scope of Dependent Claims Should Be Avoided

LITTELFUSE, INC. v. MERSEN USA EP CORP. Before Prost, Bryson, and Stoll.  Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Summary: The Federal Circuit vacated a claim construction that violated...more

Silence May Support Negative Claim Limitation

NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS v. ACCORD HEALTHCARE INC. Before Moore, Linn, and O’Malley. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: A patent application that was silent about a...more

Lack of Written-Description Support for Claimed Ranges Makes Parent Application Prior Art

INDIVIOR UK LIMITED v. DR. REDDY'S LABORATORIES S.A. Before Lourie, Linn, and Dyk.  Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Claims of a continuation application were anticipated because they were not...more

“Army of Citation Footnotes Crouching in a Field of Jargon” Fails to Withstand Summary Judgment

Traxcell Techs., LLC v. Sprint Commn’s Co. et al Before Prost, O’Malley, and Stoll.  Appeal from the Eastern District of Texas. Summary:  A patentee’s extensive citations to evidence failed to avoid summary judgment of...more

Arguments to the Patent Office That Contradict Information Submitted to the FDA Support Inference of Deceptive Intent

BELCHER PHARMACEUTICALS v. HOSPIRA, INC. Before Reyna, Taranto, and Stoll. Appeal from the District of Delaware. Summary: A patentee committed inequitable conduct by advancing an argument during patent prosecution...more

A General Warning Against Infringement Is Not Actual Notice of Infringement

LUBBY HOLDINGS LLC v. CHUNG - Before Dyk, Newman, and Wallach. Appeal from the Central District of California. Summary: Specific charges of infringement by a specific accused product are required to provide actual...more

Clear Intrinsic Evidence Forecloses Extrinsic Evidence of Special Meaning

SEABED GEOSOLUTIONS (US) INC. v. MAGSEIS FF LLC. Before Moore, Linn, and Chen.  Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Where a claim term’s meaning is clear from the intrinsic evidence, no extrinsic evidence...more

An “Agreement to Agree” Is Unenforceable Under Washington State Law

PHYTELLIGENCE, INC. v. WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY Before Prost, Reyna, and Stoll.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Summary: Under Washington law, a contract must be...more

Federal Circuit Rejects Written Description Analysis That Ignored Relevant Factors

IN RE: GLOBAL IP HOLDINGS LLC - Before Moore, Reyna, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Written description support for a claimed genus depends on the criticality or importance of the...more

The Impact of Fact Issues on Patent Eligibility after Berkheimer

The Federal Circuit’s 2018 decision in Berkheimer v. HP Inc. was likely the most consequential development in patent eligibility since the Supreme Court introduced its two-part eligibility framework in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank...more

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