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CAFC Cleaves ‘Conception’ from ‘Reduction to Practice’: Conception Requires Neither Certainty Invention Will Work Nor Successful...

Regents of the Univ. of California v. Broad Inst., Inc., No. 2022-1594, 2025 WL 1363125 (Fed. Cir. May 12, 2025) - On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated the Patent Trial and Appeals...more

“Consisting of” Consequences: Prosecution Disclaimers Outweigh Pretrial Stipulations 

The Federal Circuit recently opined on whether a stipulation in litigation can overcome a disclaimer made during the prosecution history of a patent. The Hatch-Waxman Act allows generic drug companies to use clinical results...more

Published Patent Applications as Prior Art:  Filing, Not Publication, is Everything 

The Federal Circuit recently addressed a deceptively straightforward question: does a published U.S. patent application qualify as prior art as of the application’s filing date in inter partes review (“IPR”) proceedings? ...more

Court Prunes a Thicket of Claims and Counterclaims and Excludes Expert’s Design Patent Infringement Opinion 

Fiskars Finland OY AB v. Woodland Tools, Inc., No. 22-cv-00540 (W.D. Wis. Aug. 26, 2024) - On August 26, 2024, the Western District of Wisconsin issued a decision adjudicating a number of motions in a case involving a...more

Automating Without Innovating: Patents Held Invalid

People.ai, Inc. v. Clari Inc., 2022-1364, (Fed. Cir. April. 7, 2023) - In an appeal before the Federal Circuit, plaintiff People.ai argued to no avail that the Northern District of California erred in its finding of...more

String ‘Em Up: Light Patentee OK to Notify Others of Patent Suit: Lite-Netics, LLC, v. Nu Tsai Cap. LLC, d/b/a Holiday Bright...

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but don’t complain to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) if a patentee calls you an infringer, claims you copied, or threatens to sue your customers.  Holding speech...more

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