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Trademark case law continues to develop each year, and 2025 was no exception, with courts issuing a wide array of trademark opinions. For a more in-depth discussion of 2025's most impactful decisions, we invite you to watch...more
Knobbe Martens’ 2025 Federal Circuit Year in Review report, covering over 50 of the most noteworthy patent-related Federal Circuit decisions issued last year, is now available! The report provides in-depth analysis from...more
In a recent case, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment of non-infringement of a design patent, signaling heightened scrutiny of functional features in design...more
Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - U.S. PATENT NO. 7,679,637 LLC v. GOOGLE LLC [OPINION] (2024‑1520, 01/22/2026) (Moore, Hughes, Stoll) - Moore, C.J. The Court affirmed the district court’s dismissal of U.S....more
This issue of The PTAB Review begins with a review of notable developments at the PTAB, including changes to institution procedures, and precedential and informative decisions. Next, the authors explore several appellate...more
Less than a year after holding that generic machine-learning patents are abstract in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., the Federal Circuit may be refining where to draw the line on patent eligibility....more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a patent infringement suit, holding that the asserted web conferencing claims were directed to an abstract idea, lacked any inventive...more
The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Range of Motion Products, LLC v. Armaid Company Inc. highlights a growing dissatisfaction with courts’ broad use of the sufficiently distinct/plainly dissimilar standard to dispose of...more
The Federal Circuit’s recent decisions in EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC (en banc) and Barry v. DePuy Synthes Companies have refined the landscape regarding the admissibility of expert testimony under Federal Rule of Evidence...more
Our Patent Case Summaries provide a weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial...more
Game Plan, Inc. (“Game Plan”), a nonprofit organization that supports student‑athletes in underserved communities, appealed a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) to the Federal Circuit (see Game Plan,...more
Federal courts continue to grapple with whether profit disgorgement for design patent infringement is a legal remedy for juries or an equitable remedy for judges, an issue the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has...more
This case addresses two primary issues (i) whether the district court erred in construing the claim term “composition” in FMC’s pesticide patents to mean only “stable compositions,” based on disclosures found in a provisional...more
This week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment of noninfringement for appellee Hulu, finding that Hulu did not infringe method claim 16 of Sound View Innovations’ U.S. Patent No....more
Last year we discussed the implications of the Supreme Court’s choice not to review the Federal Circuit’s SnapRays decision for patent owners that rely on the Amazon Patent Evaluation Express (“APEX”) program. A recent case...more
On January 22, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Rule 12 dismissal of a patent infringement action brought by US Patent No. 7,679,637 LLC against Google LLC, holding that the...more
On January 22, 2026, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion authored by Chief Judge Moore in US Pat. No. 7,679,637 LLC v. Google LLC, No. 24-1520, 2026 LEXIS 92121 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 22, 2026) affirming the District...more
Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., No. 23-2437 (Fed. Cir. 2025) – On April 18, 2025, the Federal Circuit upheld the district court’s dismissal of the case on the ground that the patents were ineligible under § 101....more
The Supreme Court granted certiorari to review whether a generic drugmaker that fully carves out a patented use from its label can nonetheless be held liable for induced infringement based solely on marketing its product as a...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed an exclusion of expert testimony and grant of judgment as a matter of law, finding that the district court improperly conflated admissibility with credibility and...more
The Federal Circuit has issued its nonprecedential decision in In re Blue Buffalo Enterprises, Inc. affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“Board”) rejection of several claims of U.S. Patent Application No. 17/136,152...more
In a decision that is quickly gaining attention, the Federal Circuit held that the district court abused its discretion by excluding both of Plaintiff’s experts and subsequently granting Defendants’ judgment as a matter of...more
Knobbe Martens’ 2025 Federal Circuit Year in Review report, covers over 50 of the most noteworthy patent-related Federal Circuit decisions issued in 2025. The report provides in-depth analysis from Knobbe Martens lawyers on a...more
Merck sued multiple defendants alleging infringement of the patents-in-suit in response to defendants’ filing ANDAs seeking approval to make and sell generic cladribine....more