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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: An Expert Need Not Have Acquired the Requisite Skill Level Prior to the Time of the Invention

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION v. APPLE INC. [OPINION] (2022-1884, 8/28/2024) (Prost, Taranto, and Chen) - Prost, J. The Court affirmed two final judgments of the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Beware Equitable Doctrine of Issue Preclusion in Multiparty, Multivenue Patent Campaigns

Addressing for the first time whether an invalidity order merges with a voluntary dismissal for purposes of finality, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that an interlocutory order merges with the final...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

In IPR, No Collateral Estoppel Based on § 101 Ruling in District Court

A panel of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituted inter partes review of a patent, rejecting the patent owner’s assertion that the petitioner’s obviousness arguments were collaterally estopped by a district court’s...more

Holland & Knight LLP

SDNY: Collateral Estoppel Halts Social Media Patent Case

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In late 2018, Plaintiff NetSoc sued Chegg in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), alleging infringement of a patent directed to "establishing and using a social network to facilitate people in...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2019 Report: Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB - Summaries of Key 2018 Decisions

In 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit docketed close to 600 appeals from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). That is the second highest number since starting to hear post-American Invents Act...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

PTAB Strategies and Insights - September 2018: Best Strategies for ITC Respondents When Considering a PTAB Action

When faced with allegations of patent infringement at the International Trade Commission (ITC), a respondent must quickly evaluate whether or not to request an AIA review (hereinafter, inter partes review for convenience) at...more

Knobbe Martens

Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Systems & Software LLC

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Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Newman, Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Summary: Collateral estoppel does not apply to a prior decision of no...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Intellectual Ventures Loses Claims Based on § 101, Collateral Estoppel, Standing

In a pair of decisions handed down on the same day by Chief Judge Prost, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down a raft of claims on the basis of various doctrines, including patent ineligibility,...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Judge Sullivan Holds “Substantially” the Same is Close Enough for Collateral Estoppel

On September 30, 2016, District Judge Richard J. Sullivan (S.D.N.Y.) granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss, holding one of the two asserted patents invalid under principles of collateral estoppel. Plaintiff Joao...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Invalidity under § 101 and defensive collateral estoppel defeat second DietGoal case

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CaDietGoal Innovations LLC v. Time, Inc. Case Number: 1:13-cv-08381 - Last month, in DietGoal Innovations LLC v. Bravo Media LLC, Case No. 1:13–cv-08391–PAE, we reported on Judge Engelmayer’s invalidation of...more

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