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Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding Mootness Patent Infringement

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Koss Corporation v. Bose Corporation

This case addresses the application of issue preclusion in relation to the validity of three patents. In particular, this case focuses on the implications of decisions made during the dismissal of pending litigations and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Merger of District Court Dismissals Torpedoes Appeal from PTAB Decision at Federal Circuit

The Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal of a final written decision in an IPR based on issue preclusion where a district court had dismissed a complaint finding the patent claims subject-matter ineligible. The patentee had...more

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Federal Circuit Dismisses Appeals As Moot

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Koss filed a patent infringement suit against Bose asserting the ’155, ’934, and ’025 patents, after which Bose petitioned for inter partes review of all three patents before the PTAB. The district court case was stayed...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - July 2024 #3

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

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Printed Matter Doctrine Applies to Communicative Content, Not All Communications

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  IOENGINE, LLC V. VIDAL (21-1227 Lourie, Chen, Stoll) - Chen, J.  The Court reversed in part and affirmed in part the Final Written Decisions of the Patent Trial and...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - May 2024

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

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Issue 33: PTAB Trial Tracker

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QUESTIONS REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF THE FINTIV FACTORS REMAIN - The Board has increasingly exercised its discretion to deny petitions in recent months, mainly due to the application of the Fintiv factors due to parallel...more

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Cementing Victory by Accepting Defeat: When Can a Patentee’s Infringement Disclaimer Moot an Appeal of an IPR Decision?

A recent Federal Circuit case, ABS Global, Inc., v. Cytonome/ST, LLC, answered the interesting question of whether a patentee’s infringement disclaimer can moot a challenger’s appeal of an inter partes review (“IPR”)...more

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

PTAB Strategies and Insights - January 2021

The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter provides timely updates and insights into how best to handle proceedings at the USPTO. It is designed to increase return on investment for all stakeholders looking at the entire...more

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

ABS Global v. Cytonome/St, LLC: Mootness and Preserving the Argument for Vacatur

In 2017, Cytonome filed suit in the Western District of Wisconsin (“the District Court”), accusing ABS of infringing six of its patents, including US Patent No. 8,529,161 (“the ’161 patent”). Subsequently, in October 2017,...more

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Patent Owner's Disavowal of Appeal from District Court’s Noninfringement Judgement Moots IPR Appeal

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Addressing the standard for mootness in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings following a district court noninfringement judgment, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a petitioner’s IPR appeal was moot...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - January 2021 #2

ABS Global, Inc. v. Cytonome/ST, LLC, Appeal No. 2019-2051 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 6, 2021) For the second time in two weeks, our Case of the Week concerns issues relating to Article III justiciability of an appeal from an IPR...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry

Last Week in the Federal Circuit (January 4-8): Mooting your opponent’s appeal

Now that the new year has started, we’re seeing an uptick in precedential opinions.  This week we decided to turn back to patent appeals, taking a look at IPRs and Article III—always a fun topic.  Below we provide our usual...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry

Orders of Interest Roundup

At Federal Circuitry blog, we like to check in once in a while on what the Federal Circuit is doing in its orders that don’t get posted on the public website. Those orders often offer nuggets about practice at the Federal...more

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Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC v. Dr. Reddy’s Labs., Inc.

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PLAINTIFF’S DISCLAIMER OF CLAIMS FOUND INVALID BY THE PTAB MOOTED ANY CONTROVERSY BEFORE THE APPELLATE COURT ASSOCIATED WITH THAT PATENT, AND A SECOND PATENT-IN-SUIT WAS NOT INVALID BECAUSE THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ERR IN...more

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Costs Awarded to Defendant After Case Dismissed for Mootness

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B.E. TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C. v. FACEBOOK, INC. Before Lourie, Plager, and O’Malley. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. Summary: A decision on the merits is not a prerequisite...more

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No Concrete Controversy if There Are No Claims

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In reversing a district court decision as to whether a validity issue remained justiciable after the challenged claims were disclaimed, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit explained that the patent owner’s...more

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Broad Description in Specification Defeats Patent Owner’s Bid for Narrow Construction

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BTG INTERNATIONAL LIMITED v. AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALS LLC - Before Wallach, Moore, and Chen. Consolidated appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. ...more

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Mootness on Appeal from PTAB

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal of an inter partes review (IPR), finding that the challenger lacked appellate standing because it had terminated its attempts to develop the infringing...more

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Court Dismisses Biosimilar Petitioner's IPR Appeal For Lack of Standing

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In Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., the Federal Circuit dismissed Momenta’s appeal from an adverse IPR decision for lack of standing after Momenta suspended its potentially infringing biosimilar...more

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Federal Circuit Holds Petitioner Lacks Standing to Appeal Inter Partes Review Decision

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On February 7, 2019, in Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal brought by a petitioner in an inter partes review (IPR) for lack of standing and mootness because...more

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Federal Circuit Dismisses Momenta’s Appeal of Adverse Final Written Decision in Abatacept IPR

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This morning, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion dismissing Momenta’s appeal from the PTAB’s final written decision upholding the patentability of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s abatacept patents against Momenta’s IPR...more

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Timely Joinder Cannot Save Untimely IPR When Nothing to Join

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In IPR2017-01054 and IPR2017-01055 (Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC v. Hospira Inc.), the PTAB denied institution of inter partes reviews of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,242,158 and 8,338,470, because Petitioner Fresenius filed the IPR...more

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Case Summary - PPG Industries, Inc. v. Valspar Sourcing, Inc.

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In a non-precedential decision, the Federal Circuit found that appellant PPG had Article III standing to file an appeal from two inter partes reexaminations. However, the Court found that appellee Valspar’s subsequent...more

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