Parkervision, Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc., Appeal Nos. 2022-1755, 2024-2221 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 6, 2024)
In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit weighed in again on a 13-year-old patent dispute concerning Qualcomm’s...more
9/10/2024
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Daubert Standards ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Intrinsic Evidence ,
Jury Verdicts ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Reversal
Realtime Adaptive Streaming L.L.C. v. Sling TV, L.L.C., Appeal No. 2023-1035 (Fed. Cir. August 23, 2024)
In its only precedential patent decision this week, the Federal Circuit helped clarify which facts may be...more
8/27/2024
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Attorney's Fees ,
Exceptional Case ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Precedential Opinion ,
Remand ,
Section 101 ,
Section 285
Allergan USA, Inc. v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd., Appeal No. 2024-1061 (Fed. Cir. August 13, 2024)
In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit clarifies rules relating to when an applicant’s patent can be...more
8/20/2024
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Article III ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
EU ,
Helsinn Healthcare SA v Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Inventions ,
Inventors ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
SCOTUS
Mobile Acuity Ltd. v. Blippar Ltd., Appeal No. 2022-2216 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 6, 2024)
In its only precedential patent opinion last week, the Federal Circuit confirmed the invalidity of all claims of two asserted patents as...more
Zyxel Comms. Corp. v. UNM Rainforest Innovations, Appeal Nos. 2022-2220, -2250 (Fed. Cir. July 22, 2024)
Our Case of the Week provided new guidance on amendment proceedings under the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s 2019...more
Backertop Licensing LLC v. Canary Connect, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2023-2367, -2368, 2024-1016, -1017 (Fed. Cir. July 16, 2024)
Our case of the week focuses on the inherent power of the district courts to investigate fraud and...more
7/23/2024
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Civil Contempt Orders ,
Dismissals ,
Fraud ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Investigations ,
Monetization ,
Mootness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Professional Misconduct ,
Rule 45 ,
Sanctions ,
Section 101
Natera, Inc. v. NeoGenomics Laboratories, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2024-1324, -1409 (Fed. Cir. July 12, 2024)
In its only precedential patent opinion last week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction that largely...more
LKQ Corporation v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Appeal No. 2021-2348 (Fed. Cir. May 21, 2024) -
In a rare en banc opinion, the Federal Circuit overruled decades of prior precedent concerning the standard to...more
5/29/2024
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Attorney's Fees ,
Design Patent ,
En Banc Review ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Inventors ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
SCOTUS ,
Summary Judgment ,
USPTO ,
Utility Patents
Copan Italia SPA v. Puritan Med. Prods. Co. LLC, Appeal No. 2022-1943 (Fed. Cir. May 14, 2024)
The Federal Circuit’s only precedential opinion concerning a patent case this week had nothing to do with patent law....more
5/21/2024
/ Appeals ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Final Judgment ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Life Sciences ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Precedential Opinion
SnapRays v. Lighting Defense Group, Appeal No. 2023-1184 (Fed. Cir. May 2, 2024)
Our Case of the Week deals with an issue the Court has not addressed recently: the question of declaratory judgment jurisdiction....more
5/7/2024
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Appeals ,
Claim Construction ,
Damages ,
Declaratory Judgments ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Mootness ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Ownership ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Printed Matter Doctrine ,
Remand ,
Vacated
Pfizer Inc. v. Sanofi Pasteur Inc., Appeal Nos. 2019-1871, -1873, -1875, -1876, -2224 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 5, 2024)
This week’s Case of the Week mostly resolves an appeal filed five years ago, following decisions from the...more
3/12/2024
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Appeals ,
Claim Construction ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Remand ,
Reversal
Freshub, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2022-1391, -1425 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 26, 2024)
In the Court’s only precedential patent opinion this week, the Court affirmed a jury finding that use of Amazon’s “Alexa” products...more
Promptu Systems Corporation v. Comcast Corporation, Appeal No. 2022-1939 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 16, 2024)
Our Case of the Week focuses on a district court’s claim construction rulings in a patent case brought against Comcast...more
Univ. of South Florida Bd. of Trustees v. United States, Appeal No. 2022-2248 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 9, 2024)
In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit examined the scope of a provision of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 (35...more
2/14/2024
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Bayh-Dole Act ,
Claim Construction ,
Federal Funding ,
Final Written Decisions ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Inventions ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Post-Grant Review ,
Prior Art
Roku, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, Appeal No. 2022-1386 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 19, 2024)
In an appeal from the International Trade Commission (the “Commission”), the Federal Circuit addressed a number of findings...more
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. v. Personal Genomics Taiwan, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2022-1410, -1554 (Fed. Cir. January 9, 2024)
In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed two inter partes review...more
Dexcom, Inc. v. Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc., Appeal No. 2023-1795 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 3, 2024)
In our Case of the Week, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of DexCom’s motion to...more
ParkerVision, Inc. v. Vidal, Appeal No. 2022-1548 (Fed. Cir. December 15, 2023) -
In its only precedential patent decision last week, the Federal Circuit addressed both a claim construction issue and a procedural issue...more
Penumbra, Inc. v. Rapidpulse, Inc., IPR2021-01466, Paper 34 (P.T.A.B. March 10, 2023)
In a PTAB decision that was recently designated precedential, the Board made two important decisions concerning provisional patent...more
12/5/2023
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Claim Construction ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Inventions ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Prior Art
In this week’s Case of Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed inter partes review decisions upholding as patentable Teleflex’s challenged patent claims directed to a method for use of a guide extension catheter in arteries. This...more
Allgenesis Biotherapeutics Inc. v. Cloudbreak Therapeutics, LLC, Appeal No. 2022-1706 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 7, 2023)
In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit dismissed appellant Allgenesis’s appeal of an inter...more
11/14/2023
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Dismissals ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Intrinsic Evidence ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Remand ,
USPTO
Netflix, Inc. v. DivX, LLC, Appeal Nos. 2022-1203, -1204 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 25, 2023)
In its only precedential patent opinion this week, the Federal Circuit issued a cautionary note to petitioners in inter partes reviews. ...more
Cyntec Company, Ltd. v. Chilisin Electronics Corp., Appeal No. 2022-1873 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 16, 2023)
In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded a California district court’s judgment as a...more
10/24/2023
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Claim Construction ,
Damages ,
Daubert Standards ,
Expert Testimony ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Judgment As A Matter Of Law ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Remand ,
Vacated
Sisvel International S.A. v. Sierra Wireless, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2022-1493, -1547 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 6, 2023)
Our Case of the Week falls in a series of cases concerning patents that claim a means for performing a particular...more
Baxalta Inc. v. Genentech, Inc., Appeal No. 22-1461 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 20, 2023)
Our Case of the Week focuses on the enablement requirement. It’s the first case to come before the Federal Circuit following the Supreme...more
9/26/2023
/ Amgen ,
Amgen v Sanofi ,
Enablement Inquiries ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Inventions ,
Life Sciences ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
SCOTUS