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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Federal Circuit Orders Remanded Case Reassigned to New Judge, Finding That Trial Judge’s Statements...

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - HD SILICON SOLUTIONS LLC v. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC. [OPINION] (2023-1397, 2/6/2025) (Lourie, Stoll, Cunningham) - Lourie, J. The Board affirmed the Final Written...more

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Federal Circuit Upholds Validity of Entresto Patent In Precedential Decision Concerning Written Description and Enablement

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In a Jan. 10 precedential ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the validity of the U.S. patent covering Novartis’s blockbuster drug Entresto was upheld, reversing an earlier decision by the...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: A comparative statement in a patent specification can be “definitional” for purposes of claim...

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  PARKERVISION, INC. v. VIDAL [OPINION] (2022-1548, 12/15/2023) (Prost, Wallach, and Chen)* - Chen, J. The Court affirmed the PTAB’s determination that the patent...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Nearly $2.2 Billion Damages Award Vacated

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  VLSI TECHNOLOGY LLC, v. INTEL CORPORATION [OPINION] (2022-1906, 12/04/2023) (Lourie, Dyk, Taranto) - Taranto, J. The Court reversed the judgment of infringement on...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Federal Circuit Grants En Banc Review of Design Patent Obviousness

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - MEDYTOX, INC. v. GALDERMA S.A. [OPINION] (2022-1165, 6/27/2023) (Dyk, Reyna, and Stark) - Reyna, J. The Court affirmed a decision by the PTAB in a post-grant review denying an...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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Last Week In The Federal Circuit (August 29 – September 2): Capability Claims in the Modern Era

Have you ever wondered what it means when your smartphone or tablet connects to an “LTE” network? Our case of the week dives into that technology—and offers an interesting discussion of functional claim limitations and...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Obvious minor clerical errors in the claim language may not form basis for a defense to willful...

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - ARTHREX, INC. v. SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. [OPINION] (2018-2140, May 27, 2022) (Moore, Reyna, Chen) - Moore, C. J. Affirming PTAB decision finding unpatentable certain claims of...more

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Patent Case Summaries - April 2022 #3

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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 and Appeal Board....more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch - April 2022

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION v. MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS, LLC [OPINION]  (2021-1609, 2021-1633, April 8, 2022) (NEWMAN, PROST, and TARANTO) - Prost, J.  Affirming in part and...more

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Patent Case Summaries - April 2022 #1

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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 and Appeal Board....more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights: January 2022 - Federal Circuit Holds that Your Technical Expert Must be a POSA

In Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools Inc. v. International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit held in a precedential opinion that expert witnesses must at least have ordinary skill in the art. Because Kyocera’s expert did not...more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights: January 2022

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

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Use of ‘a’ vs. ‘the’ in claims

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions EVOLUSION CONCEPTS, INC. v. HOC EVENTS, INC. [OPINION]  (2021-1963, 1/14/22) (Prost, Taranto, Chen) - Taranto, J.  Reversing summary judgment of noninfringement for patent related to...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch - December 2021 #2

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA v. CORCEPT THERAPEUTICS, INC. [OPINION] (2021-1360, 12/07/2021) (MOORE, NEWMAN, and REYNA) -   Moore, C.J. The Court affirmed the PTAB’s IPR decision...more

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CAFC Patent Cases - September 2021

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - *WilmerHale represented the Appellee. COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC v. DALI WIRELESS INC. [OPINION] (2020-1817, 2020-1818, 08/24/2021) (REYNA, SCHALL, and STOLL) - Stoll, J....more

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CAFC Patent Cases - August 2021

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - QUALCOMM INCORPORATED v. INTEL CORPORATION [OPINION] (2020-1589, 2020-1590, 2020-1591, 2020-1592, 2020-1593, 2020-1594, 7/27/21) (Moore, Reyna, Stoll) - Moore, J. Vacating final...more

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Last Week in the Federal Circuit (July 5-9): What Happens When the Federal Circuit Looks to Define the Undefined

Below we provide our usual weekly statistics and our case of the week—our highly subjective selection based on whatever case piqued our interest. Precedential opinions: 1 - v Non-precedential opinions: 4 - Rule 36: 3...more

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Last Week in the Federal Circuit (June 1–4): Prosecution Disclaimer – What’s Good for the Goose …

Although last week saw just four Federal Circuit opinions, they were all precedential ones and covered a range of interesting issues. Below we provide our usual weekly statistics and our case of the week—our highly subjective...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2020 Decisions

[co-author: Kathleen Wills] Last year, the global COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented challenges for American courts. By making several changes, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was able to...more

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Last Week in the Federal Circuit (December 14-18): And/or confusion

Last week, we got what may be the last big batch of Federal Circuit opinions of 2020.  (In 2019, only six more opinions issued between this time and the end of the year.)  Although most of last week’s decisions were issued...more

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CAFC Patent Cases, 10/26/20 – 11/09/20

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions: In Re NITRO FLUIDS L.L.C. [ORDER] (2020-0142, 10/28/28) (REYNA, WALLACH, and CHEN)  - Reyna, J.  The Court considered a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking transfer from the...more

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Proposed Alternative PTAB Discretionary Denial Factors In View of Co-Pending Parallel Litigation

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The authors propose replacing the PTAB’s current NHK-Fintiv factors with the alternative “Babcock-Train Factors” set forth herein These alternative factors have been crafted in an effort to provide clearer institution...more

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Better Early Than Never: PTAB Confirms Willingness to Deny Institution In Light of Advanced State of Parallel Litigation

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) recently sent a warning to alleged infringers not to wait for the one year deadline to file IPR petitions, or risk discretionary denial. On May 13, 2020, the PTAB exercised its...more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights - May 2019: Board Immediately Distinguishes Precedential NHK Decision in Amazon Institution Decision

Just after making the NHK and Valve Corp decisions precedential, the Board distinguished them in Amazon. While NHK and Valve Corp resulted in denial, in Amazon the Board instituted trial despite Amazon having similar issues...more

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