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I Hear Ya: Claim Terms Not as Narrow as Features in Specification

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a district court’s final judgment of noninfringement, finding that the district court improperly narrowed the constructions of certain claim terms to particular features...more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Government’s Royalty-Free Licensing Rights Affirmed Over USF Patent

On February 9, in University of South Florida Board of Trustees v. United States, the Federal Circuit upheld royalty-free license rights of the U.S. government over a University of South Florida (USF) patent directed to...more

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Federal Circuit IP Appeals: Summaries of Key 2023 Decisions (8th Edition): In re: PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC, 85 F.4th 1148...

PersonalWeb—the third appeal from a multidistrict litigation involving alleged infringement of PersonalWeb’s patents—addressed two issues: (1) whether the district court abused its discretion in finding the case exceptional...more

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Espresso Yourself: When Prosecution History as a Whole Doesn’t Demonstrate Clear, Unmistakable Disclaimer

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded a district court’s claim construction and related summary judgment rulings after determining that the district court erred in construing a claim term by...more

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Statements in Unrelated Application Don’t Narrow Claim Term

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a stipulated judgment of noninfringement in a patent infringement dispute after construing a disputed claim term, taking a more literal approach than the district court...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - April 2023 #3

Sequoia Technology, LLC v. Dell, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2021-2263, -2264, -2265, -2266 (Fed. Cir. April 12, 2023) In an appeal from a stipulated judgment of noninfringement and invalidity following an adverse claim construction...more

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It’s All in the Grammar: “A” Still Means “One or More,” but Single Component Must Perform All Claimed Functions

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a jury’s noninfringement verdict, finding that the district court correctly interpreted the article “a” and antecedent “said” in the asserted claims to require that a...more

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2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

Last year, in our inaugural issue of “The Year in Review,” we reported that since the landmark jury verdict in the IP litigation between Apple and Samsung in 2012, which awarded more than $1B to Apple for infringement of...more

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Present-Tense Claim Terms Not Sufficient to Require Actual Operation

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a US International Trade Commission (Commission) decision that found no violation of Section 337 due to noninfringement. The Court disagreed with the Commission that...more

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File Like an Eagle: ANDA pH Specification Rules Infringement Inquiry

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s finding of noninfringement in a Hatch-Waxman case under 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(2) and § 271(a)-(b). The Court found that the alleged infringer’s...more

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It Is Not Controversial: Factual and Legal Specificity Needed in Standing Dismissals

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MITEK SYS., INC. V. UNITED SERVS. AUTO. ASS’N - Before Dyk, Taranto, and Cunningham.  Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Summary:  Declaratory judgment plaintiffs must identify...more

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Notice Letters and Communications May Form a Basis for Personal Jurisdiction

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APPLE INC. v. ZIPIT WIRELESS, INC. [OPINION]- PRECEDENTIAL - Before Hughes, Mayer and Stoll.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary: Notice letters and related...more

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The Heightened Standard of Proving Induced Infringement

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ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION v. MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS, LLC - Before Newman, Prost, and Taranto. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: A finding of inducing infringement requires...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - April 2022 #2

Littelfuse, Inc. v. Mersen USA EP Corp., Appeal No. 2021-2013 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 4, 2022)‎ - Our Case of the Week focuses on the issue of claim construction, and, more specifically, the doctrine ‎of claim differentiation....more

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Game Reset: Extrinsic Evidence Can’t Limit Claim Scope Beyond Scope Based on Unambiguous Intrinsic Evidence

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment of noninfringement after concluding that the district court erred by relying on expert testimony to construe a claim term...more

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Means-Plus-Function Claims: Don’t Forget the “Way”

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court’s findings of noninfringement, in part because the plaintiff had failed to prove the “way” element of the function-way-result test for a first...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - October 2021 #3

Mobility Workx, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC, Appeal No. 2020-1441 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 13, 2021) - In this week’s Case of the Week, a panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit considered, and rejected, new...more

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Failing to Address All Reasons for Noninfringement Renders Appeal Moot

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In deciding whether the district court correctly interpreted various claim terms in four patents related to communication techniques used in computer gaming technology, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found...more

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Doctrine of Equivalents Analysis Should Not Be Simple Binary Comparison

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit remanded a district court’s claim construction and grant of a defendant’s summary judgment motion of non-infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, finding that a...more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights - January 2021: Patent Owner's District Court Disavowal Moots Petitioner's PTAB-Based CAFC Appeal...

In ABS Global, Inc. v Cytonome/ST, LLC, the Federal Circuit dismissed a Petitioner’s appeal from a U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) final written decision when it determined that a Patent Owner’s voluntary...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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Revenge of the Grammar Nerds: Grammatical Canons Overturn $8.6 Million Jury Infringement Verdict

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Addressing whether the phrase “a plurality of” should apply to each element in a series, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit entered judgment of non-infringement, finding that the district court’s claim...more

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Reasonable Or Not, Make Sure You Don’t Believe You Infringe

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TECSEC, INC., v. ADOBE INC. Before Prost, Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Summary: Even if it would be objectively reasonable to view a defendant’s conduct as...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - September 2020 #2

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Apple Inc. v. Voip-Pal.com, Inc., Appeal No. 2018-1456, -1457 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 25, 2020) - In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit addressed two novel issues following inter partes review...more

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The Federal Circuit Says Prosecution History Was Insufficient to Overcome the Claims and Written Description for Claim...

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Baxalta Inc. v. Genentech, Inc., 2019-1527, (Fed. Cir. Aug 27, 2020) - In an appeal from the District of Delaware, the Federal Circuit (Judges Moore, Plager, and Wallach) vacated and remanded the district court’s judgment...more

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