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AIA Patents May Not Be Challenged in Interference Proceedings

SNIPR Technologies Ltd v. Rockefeller University - Before Chen, Wallach, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Patents whose priority is governed...more

Performing Claimed Features Faster Than Humans by Using Generic Computers Is Not Sufficient as an Improvement to Computer...

Trinity Info Media, L.L.C. v. Covalent INC. Before STOLL, BRYSON, and CUNNINGHAM.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Summary: Patents directed to connecting users...more

Patent Directed to System for Controlling Access to Drugs Is Not Listable in the Orange Book

JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. v. AVADEL CNS PHARMACEUTICALS, LLC - Before Lourie, Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: A patent directed to a system to reduce...more

Evidence of Actual Physician Practice is Relevant in Determination of Direct Infringement

GENENTECH, INC. V. SANDOZ INC. Before Newman, Lourie, and Prost. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: The district court did not clearly err in considering evidence of...more

The Statutory Presumption of Validity of a Federally Registered Trade Dress Applies Even Where the Trademark Examiner May Not Have...

SOCLEAN, INC. v. SUNSET HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, INC. Before Newman, Lourie, and Prost.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Summary: A trademark is entitled to a statutory...more

Duplicative-Litigation Doctrine: Proper Motion Practice Is Essential to Avoid Dismissal of Duplicative Complaints

ARENDI S.A.R.L. v. LG ELECTRONICS INC. - Before Prost, Chen, and Stoll. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. - Summary: Under the duplicative-litigation doctrine, a party cannot maintain two...more

Is Evidence of Generic Industry Skepticism Enough to Preclude a Finding of a Motivation to Combine?

AURIS HEALTH, INC., v. INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Before Dyk, Prost, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Summary: Evidence of generic industry skepticism cannot, by itself, form...more

Effects of Proximity, Plurals, and Passive Voice for Claim Construction

APPLE INC. v. MPH TECHNOLOGIES OY - Before Moore, Prost, and Taranto. Appeal from Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The proximity of concepts in a claim may link the concepts together and affect the plain meaning...more

Written Description: What Is the Proper “Dosage” to Satisfy This Requirement?

BIOGEN INTERNATIONAL GMBH V. MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS INC. Before O’Malley, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. Summary: A specification may not...more

Federal Circuit Holds That the PTAB Does Not Have an Impermissible Incentive to Institute IPRs

MOBILITY WORKX, LLC v. UNIFIED PATENTS, LLC Before Newman, Schall, and Dyk. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Fee-funded structure of AIA review proceedings does not violate due process....more

Patentee Failed to Apportion Licenses to Bundled Patents to Establish Royalties

OMEGA PATENTS, LLC v. CALAMP CORPORATION - Before Prost, Dyk, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Summary: Licensing policies that allow use of any or all of a...more

One Abstract Idea + Another Abstract Idea = An Abstract Idea

In Re PERSONALWEB TECHNOLOGIES LLC - Before Prost, Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the District Court for the Northern District of California. A patent directed to a medley of mental processes with no inventive concept...more

Copying From a Copyrighted Computer Program May Be Fair Use to the Extent Needed to Promote Adoption of the Use of Accrued Talents...

GOOGLE LLC V. ORACLE AMERICA, INC. Before the United States Supreme Court (Opinion by Justice Breyer) on Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Summary: Where use of...more

Sri International, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc.

Federal Circuit Summary - Before Lourie, O’Malley, and Stoll. Appeal from District of Delaware. Summary: Under step one of Alice, a claim is not directed to an abstract idea when it recites a specific technique to...more

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