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Eye on IPRs, June 2024: What’s Next for the Design Patent Obviousness Test; Federal Circuit Ruling on Printed Matter

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Every month, Erise’s patent attorneys review the latest inter partes review cases and news to bring you the stories that you should know about: Design Patent Obviousness Test Thrown Out - The U.S. Court of Appeals...more

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Federal Circuit Upends Obviousness Test for Design Patents, Leaving Uncertainty and Potential Opportunity

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On May 21, 2024, the Federal Circuit upended decades of precedent regarding design patents in its decision LKQ Corporation v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC. Sitting en banc, a panel of Federal Circuit judges overturned...more

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Eye on IPRs, April 2024: PTAB’s Analogous Art Finding Upheld by Federal Circuit, Blockchain Gemstone Identifying Process Patent...

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Every month, Erise’s patent attorneys review the latest inter partes review cases and news to bring you the stories that you should know about: Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Analogous Art Finding - As IP Watchdog...more

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Federal Circuit IP Appeals: Summaries of Key 2023 Decisions (8th Edition): Netflix, Inc. v. DivX, LLC, 80 F.4th 1352 (Fed. Cir....

Netflix petitioned for IPR of a DivX patent related to “trick play” functionality, which allows a user to fast forward, rewind, and scene skip frames. Netflix’s petition argued that the challenged claims would have been...more

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Recent Federal Circuit Decision Highlights Importance of Analogous Prior Art Doctrine

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently addressed the issue of “analogous prior art,” a patent law doctrine fundamental to the legal determination of whether a patent is invalid as obvious over the prior art....more

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Hit Rewind: Analogous Art and Field of Endeavor

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Addressing the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s application of the field of endeavor and reasonably pertinent tests for determining analogous art, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that the Board should not...more

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Analogous Art Must Be Compared to the Challenged Patent

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In Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharm. Inc., Case No. 2021-1981, the Federal Circuit reversed an obviousness determination by the PTAB. At issue was Sanofi’s reissued U.S. Patent No. RE47,614 (the ’614 patent),...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Raising a New Rationale or Elaborating on a Previously Raised Issue?

In Everstar Merch. Co. v. Willis Elec. Co., No. 2021-1882, 2022 WL 1089909 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2022), the Federal Circuit provided guidance to distinguish between raising a new argument and elaborating on previously raised...more

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Design Patent Prior Art Must Be From Same or Analogous Field as Claimed Article of Manufacture

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Finding that the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (Board) applied an erroneous interpretation of claim scope, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a Board decision upholding an examiner’s rejection of a lip...more

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From Respiratory Care to Power Plants: The PTAB on Analogous Art

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We recently wrote about the Federal Circuit’s 2020 decision in Donner Technology, LLC. v. Pro Stage Gear, LLC, where the Federal Circuit vacated the PTAB’s denial of an obviousness challenge due to its finding that the prior...more

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Federal Circuit Review - November 2020

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No Shortcuts to the “Reasonable Pertinence” Analysis in the Analogous Art Inquiry - In Donner Technology, LLC v. Pro Stage Gear, LLC, Appeal No. 20-1104, the Federal Circuit determination as to whether a reference is...more

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The Federal Circuit Issues Decision Clarifying the Qualifying Test for Analogous Art

On November 9, 2020, the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a decision by the United States Patent Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) in Donner Tech., LLC v. Pro Stage Gear, LLC, holding that the PTAB applied an...more

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Analogous Art Includes Reference a Skilled Artisan Would Reasonably Consult

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Addressing the standard for determining whether a prior art reference constitutes analogous art for purposes of an obviousness analysis, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a Patent Trial and...more

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Last Week in the Federal Circuit (November 9-13): Analyzing Analogous Art

Last week, the Federal Circuit was relatively busy, issuing five precedential opinions and three other written decisions.  Below we provide our usual weekly statistics and our case of the week—our highly subjective selection...more

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No Shortcuts to the “Reasonable Pertinence” Analysis in the Analogous Art Inquiry

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DONNER TECHNOLOGY, LLC v. PRO STAGE GEAR, LLC - Before Prost, Dyk, and Hughes. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: A determination as to whether a reference is analogous art to a claimed invention...more

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Fed. Circuit Cautions Against Narrow Application of Analogous Art Test

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One of the steps in a proper obviousness analysis is to ascertain the scope and content of the prior art and the differences between the prior art and the claims at issue. Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kan. City, 383 U.S. 1,...more

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PTAB Must Consider Evidence Showing Prior Art Is Analogous to Invention

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AIRBUS S.A.S. v. FIREPASS CORPORATION Before Lourie, Moore, and Stoll.  Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Whether an asserted prior art reference is reasonably pertinent to the particular problem...more

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Federal Circuit Emphasizes Need For Reasonable Expectation Of Success

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In Genzyme Corp. v. Dr. Reddy’s Labs. Ltd., the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court decision upholding Genzyme’s Orange Book listed patent for the cancer drug Mozobil® against an obviousness challenge, because the...more

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Reference Reasonably Pertinent to One Problem Deemed Analogous Art

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Section 103 does not, by its terms, define the “art to which [the] subject matter [sought to be patented] pertains,” but longstanding precedent couches this question of fact in terms of “whether the art is analogous or not.”...more

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Non-Analogous Art Is Not Prior Art for Purposes of Obviousness - Circuit Check Inc. v. QXQ Inc.

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Addressing the issue of obviousness, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the district court and restored the jury’s verdict finding the patents-at-issue not invalid, because the prior art in dispute was...more

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Federal Circuit Review | August 2015

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Online Banking Patents Based On “Abstract Ideas” Held Patent Ineligible Under Alice - In Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Capital One Bank (USA), NA, Appeal No. 2014-1506, the Federal Circuit held that claims directed to...more

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Federal Circuit Provides Plain Language Test for Analogous Art

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Whether or not a prior art reference constitutes “analogous art” for purposes of an obviousness inquiry under 35 U.S.C. § 103 has been the subject of debate in many instances. On July 28, 2015, the Federal Circuit, in Circuit...more

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