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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Claims May Bend But Are Not Broken: Judge Locke Rejects Indefiniteness Arguments in Fiber Optic Cables Case

In a patent-infringement case involving fiber-optic-cable assemblies, Magistrate Judge Steven I. Locke (E.D.N.Y.) recently rejected defendants’ arguments that two terms in the patent claims were indefinite under 35 U.S.C. §...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Healthtech Patents: What Alivecor v. Apple Means for AI-Powered Innovation

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A major Federal Circuit ruling just sent a clear message to AI-driven healthtech companies: AI alone won’t get you a patent....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases: Apple Inc. v. Gesture Technology Partners

Apple Inc. v. Gesture Technology Partners, LLC, Appeal Nos. 2023-1475, -1533 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 4, 2025) Our Case of the Week is a high-stakes appeal from an inter partes review concerning a patent titled “Camera Based...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - January 2025 #2

In re Entresto (Sacubitril/Valsartan), Appeal Nos. 2023-2218, -2220, -2221 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 10, 2025) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit revived Novartis’s US Patent No. 8,101,659 by reversing the district...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - December 2024 #3

CloudofChange, LLC v. NCR Corp., Appeal No. 2023-1111 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 18, 2024) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit addressed the question of divided infringement in the context of system claims. In its...more

McDermott Will & Emery

The Devil Is in the Details: Bioequivalence, In Vitro Testing Not Enough to Establish Infringement

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Addressing for the first time the issue of whether bioequivalence data and in vitro testing can show that an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) product with different immediate and delayed release portions infringed on a...more

A&O Shearman

District Of Massachusetts Invalidates Epigenetics Method Patents For Lack Of Eligible Subject Matter

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In biomodal Ltd. v. New England BioLabs, Inc., No. 24-cv-11697-RGS, Dkt. No. 78 (D. Mass. Nov. 2024), Defendant New England BioLabs, Inc. (“NEB”) filed a motion to dismiss the claims of infringement of five patents as...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - December 2024

Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC v. Meta Platforms, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2022-1600, -1709 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 4, 2024) In this appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Federal...more

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

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

McDermott Will & Emery

Beware Enablement of Genus Antibody Claims

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit invalidated yet another set of antibody genus claims, finding the case “materially indistinguishable” from those in the 2023 Supreme Court of the United States case, Amgen v....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

2023 Federal Circuit Case Summaries

We are excited to share Sheppard Mullin’s inaugural quarterly report on key Federal Circuit decisions. The Spring 2023 Quarterly Report provides summaries of most key patent law-related decisions from January 1, 2023 to March...more

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Federal Circuit Sends iPhone Patent Dispute Back for Third Damages Trial

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Considering numerous claim construction, infringement and damages issues related to patents allegedly covering Apple’s iPhones 5 and 6 series technology, a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit determined...more

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Impossible; Cloud Storage Patent Claims Invalid for Indefiniteness or Not Infringed

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s determination that three patents directed to data synchronization were indefinite as lacking sufficient disclosed structure to support a means plus...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - February 2021 #3

John Bean Technologies Corporation v. Morris & Associates, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2020-1090, -1148 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 19, 2021) - Our Case of the Week this week focuses on the doctrine of intervening rights, a doctrine that is...more

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2G or Not 2G: Patent License Applies to Future Generation Wireless Networks

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In interpreting a patent license agreement originally drafted in the era of third generation (3G) cellular networks, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that the license agreement covered subsequent wireless...more

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Core Wireless Licensing v. Apple Inc.

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Federal Circuit Summary - Before Reyna, Bryson, and Hughes. Appeal from the Northern District of California. Summary: Breach of a duty of disclosure to a standards-setting organization may constitute implied waiver,...more

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Apple Ordered to Pay $506 Million to the University of Wisconsin for Infringing its Computer Processor Chip Patent

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Patent Judgments & Awards - Wisconsin Alumni Research Found. V. Apple, Inc., No. 14-CV-062-WMC (W.D. Wisc.) On July 25, 2017, a federal court in Wisconsin ordered Apple to pay a whopping $506 million for infringement of...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The World in US Courts: Orrick's Quarterly Review of Decisions Applying US Law to Global Business and Cross-Border Activities

Alien Tort Statute (ATS)/Political Question Doctrine/Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA)/ Act of State Doctrine - District Court Dismisses ATS Claim Where Alleged Conduct in US was not Directly Linked to Injuries...more

Hogan Lovells

Patentability of software in Italy & partial recovery of profits (infringement of patents on marginal aspects of a product)

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By judgement of January 3rd, 2017, the Turin Court of Appeal delivered a monumental decision in a longstanding patent dispute concerning the validity and infringement of patents relating to an Electronic Program Guide (EPG)...more

Proskauer - New England IP Blog

Need for Illumination of Maximum Recovery Rule Warrants Interlocutory Appeal

Chief Judge Patti B. Saris of the District of Massachusetts recently issued an order paving the way for the Trustees of Boston University to seek an interlocutory appeal to clarify the Maximum Recovery Rule for remittitur....more

McDermott Will & Emery

Lie Still: Claim Construction on Hospital Bed Unduly Limited

Hill-Rom Services, Inc. v. Stryker Corp. - Addressing whether there were any reasons to depart from the plain and ordinary meaning of terms in claim construction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...more

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