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Eye on IPRs: November 2024: USPTO Director to Step Down, Did Fed. Circuit DISH Asks Full Fed. Cir. Panel to Reconsider Vacating...

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Every month, Erise’s patent attorneys review the latest inter partes review cases and news to bring you the stories that you should know about: USPTO Director Vidal to Step Down - On November 12, Under Secretary of...more

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

[Webinar] Federal Circuit IP Appeals: Summaries of Key 2023 Decisions - January 23rd, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Directors Michael Joffre, Ph.D., William H. Milliken, Anna G. Phillips, and Richard A. Crudo will present the webinar "Federal Circuit IP Appeals: Summaries of Key 2023 Decisions" on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at 1:00 p.m....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - July 2018 #3

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Polara Engineering Inc. v. Campbell Company, Appeal Nos. 2017-1974, -2033 (Fed. Cir. July 10, 2018) In this wide-ranging opinion, the Court provided a rare and lengthy opinion on the public use...more

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Aatrix Software, Inc. v. Green Shades Software, Inc. And Berkheimer v. HP Inc.

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Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Prost, Newman, Lourie, Dyk, Moore, O’Malley, Reyna, Wallach, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, and Stoll. On petition for rehearing en banc. Summary: Under step two of the Alice framework,...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Droplets, Inc. v. E*TRADE Bank., Appeal No. 2016-2504 (Fed. Cir. 2018)?- In an appeal from an inter partes review, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the PTAB invalidating a patent...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

En Banc Federal Circuit Paves the Way for Easier Claim Amendments in Inter Partes Review Before the PTAB

On October 4, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an en banc decision in Aqua Products, Inc., v. Matal, finding that the petitioner has the burden of proving the unpatentability of claims—even...more

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Federal Circuit Review | November 2016

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Fraud-Detection Patent Claimed Patent-Ineligible Subject Matter - In FairWarning IP, LLC v. Iatric Systems, Inc., Appeal No. 2015-1985, the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s holding that FairWarning’s patent...more

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Practical Implications from the Federal Circuit’s Rare en Banc Reversal in Apple v. Samsung

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In a precedential opinion issued en banc on Friday, October 7, 2016, the Federal Circuit overturned a panel decision, affirming and reinstating the district court’s judgment and the jury’s verdict. The majority opinion...more

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Is Inter Partes Review Set for Supreme Court Review?

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In re Cuozzo Speed Tech., LLC presented the Federal Circuit with its first opportunity to address important, open questions about how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) handles its relatively new Inter Partes Review...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: Amarantus Bioscience Holdings, Personalis, Inc., and...

Earlier this summer, in Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the District Court for the Northern District of California granting summary judgment of invalidity of the asserted...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

IP Newsflash - August 2015 #4

SUPREME COURT CASES - The Supreme Court Upholds Prohibition on Charging Royalties After Patent Expiration - In Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment LLC, 576 U.S. ---- (2015), the Supreme Court declined to overrule its 1964...more

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Federal Circuit Upholds Broadest Reasonable Interpretation in Inter Partes Review

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A divided Federal Circuit denied the petition for rehearing en banc that would have required the court to revisit its decision in In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC (Fed Cir 2015), that upheld the USPTO’s use of the...more

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PTAB’s Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Rule Survives Another Challenge (Barely)

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The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Cuozzo Speed Technology LLC’s petition for en banc rehearing of a February panel decision affirming the PTAB’s use the so-called broadest reasonable interpretation (BRI)...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Federal Circuit Decreases Strength of Presumption Against Treatment of Patent Claims as Means-Plus-Function

Accused infringers challenging patent claims now have a new arrow in their quiver as a result of yesterday's holding in Williamson v. Citrix Online, et al. In an en banc decision, the Federal Circuit replaced an earlier...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Federal Circuit Weakens the Presumption against Means-Plus-Function Claim Interpretation–Structural Support Significant for...

For the past ten years, there has been a strong presumption against interpreting a functional claim element lacking the word “means” as a means-plus-function claim element under § 112(f) (previously § 112 ¶ 6). One could...more

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En Banc Federal Circuit Changes Standard for Using Functional Language in Patent Claims

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Richard A. Williamson v. Citrix Online, LLC, et al. (No. 2013-1130) - 35 U.S.C. § 112, para. 6 allows patent applicants to draft their claims in a way that recites a function to be performed, rather than by reciting a...more

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Supreme Court Delivers Unanimous Decisions in Two Important Patent Cases: What Do This Week’s Limelight and Nautilus Decisions...

Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court delivered unanimous opinions in two separate cases addressing questions of patent law, Limelight Networks v. Akamai Technologies (on induced infringement) and Nautilus v....more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Supreme Court Reverses Federal Circuit on Two Key Patent Issues

On June 2, 2014, the Supreme Court decided two closely-watched patent cases, unanimously reversing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and making it easier to defend some claims of patent infringement....more

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