Haixia Lin at WilmerHale

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

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

12/13/2023 / Claim Construction , Damages , Patent Infringement , Patent Litigation , Patents , Precedential Opinion

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Avoid fighting with the courts and administrative agencies

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. PURDUE PHARMA LP v. COLLEGIUM PHARMACEUTICAL, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1482, 11/21/2023) (Dyk, Hughes, and Stoll) - Dyk, J. The Court affirmed the Patent Trial and...more

11/28/2023 / Patent Litigation , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents , Post-Grant Review , Precedential Opinion , Purdue Pharma

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Federal Circuit rejects invitation to create a bright-line rule regarding whether numerical ranges...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - MALVERN PANALYTICAL INC. v. TA INSTRUMENTS-WATERS LLC [OPINION] (2022-1439, 11/1/2023) (Prost, Hughes, and Cunningham) - Prost, J. The Court vacated the district court’s...more

11/15/2023 / Administrative Appeals , Attorney's Fees , Claim Construction , Dismissals , Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding , Noninfringement , Patent Infringement , Patent Litigation , Patents , Pharmaceutical Industry , Pharmaceutical Patents , Stipulated Judgment

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: The Board should not have to decode a petition

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - CYNTEC COMPANY, LTD. v. CHILISIN ELECTRONICS CORP., CHILISIN AMERICA LTD. [OPINION] (2022-1873, 10/16/23) (Moore, Stoll, Cunningham) - Stoll, J. The Court reversed the...more

11/3/2023 / Claim Construction , Daubert Hearing , Judgment As A Matter Of Law , Nonobvious , Patent Infringement , Patent Litigation , Patents , Prior Art , Remand , Reversal , Vacated

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: “The” Computer Means the Same Computer

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. FINJAN LLC V. SONICWALL, INC [OPINION] (22-1048, 10/13/2023) (Reyna, Bryson, and Cunningham) - Cunningham, J. The Court vacated the district court’s judgment of...more

10/18/2023 / Claim Construction , Noninfringement , Obviousness , Patent Invalidity , Patent Litigation , Patents , Precedential Opinion , Prior Art , PTAB Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) , Remand

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: PTAB may make implicit finding of reasonable expectation of success if arguments are intertwined...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - BAXALTA INCOPORPORATED v. GENENTECH, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1461, 9/20/2023) (Moore, Clevenger, and Chen) - Moore, C.J. The Court affirmed a district court’s grant of...more

10/4/2023 / Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding , Patent Litigation , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents , Pharmaceutical Industry , Pharmaceutical Patents , Precedential Opinion , PTAB Precedential Opinion Panel (POP)

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: For design patent infringement analysis, comparison prior art must be tied to same article of...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - NETFLIX, INC. v. DIVX, LLC [OPINION] (2022-1138, 9/11/2023) (Hughes, Stoll, and Stark) - Stoll, J. The Court vacated the Board’s finding that an asserted prior art...more

9/22/2023 / Design Patent , Intellectual Property Litigation , Intellectual Property Protection , Patent Infringement , Patent Litigation , Patents , Precedential Opinion , Prior Art

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Patent owner’s rights and arguments, like wakesurfing, must be fair and balanced

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - VOLVO PENTA v. BRUNSWICK CORP. [OPINION] (2022-1765, 8/24/2023) (Moore, Lourie, and Cunningham) - Moore, Chief J. The Court vacated and remanded the Patent Trial and...more

9/7/2023 / Double Patent , Obviousness , Obviousness-Type Double Patenting (ODP) , Patent Litigation , Patent Term Extensions , Patent Terms , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: IPR petitioner must be given opportunity to respond to new claim construction arguments by patent...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - AXONICS, INC. v. MEDTRONIC, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1532, 2022-1533, 8/7/2023) (Lourie, Dyk, and Taranto) - Dyk, J. The Court vacated and remanded IPR decisions by the PTAB...more

8/24/2023 / Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding , Medtronic , Patent Litigation , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents , Pharmaceutical Industry , Pharmaceutical Patents , Precedential Opinion , PTAB Precedential Opinion Panel (POP)

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Pending, non-final litigation or IPR decision does not negate intent to infringe that is otherwise...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION v. LIQUIDIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. [OPINION] (22-2217, 7/24/23) (Lourie, Dyk, and Stoll) - Lourie, J. The Court affirmed the district...more

8/9/2023 / Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Induced Infringement , Patent Infringement , Patent Invalidity , Patent Litigation , Patents , Precedential Opinion , PTAB Precedential Opinion Panel (POP)

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Stick to the original idea in reissues

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - IN RE: FLOAT'N'GRILL LLC [OPINION] (2022-1438, 7/12/2023) (Prost, Linn, and Cunningham) - Linn, J. The Court affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision “affirming the...more

7/26/2023 / Abstract Ideas , America Invents Act , Claim Construction , CLS Bank v Alice Corp , Indefiniteness , Patent Litigation , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents , Precedential Opinion , Reissue Patents , Section 101

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

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

7/12/2023 / Administrative Procedure Act , Claim Construction , Design Patent , Due Process , Induced Infringement , Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding , Obviousness , Patent Infringement , Patent Litigation , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents , Precedential Opinion , Prior Art

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Patent owner assumes temporary burden of production when attempting to antedate prior art

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - BLUE GENTIAN, LLC v. TRISTAR PRODUCTS, INC. (21-2316, 6/9/23) (Prost, Chen, and Stark) - Prost, J. The Court affirmed the district court’s decision finding that a nonparty...more

6/28/2023 / Inventors , Patent Invalidity , Patent Litigation , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents , Precedential Opinion , Prior Art

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Not All Obviousness Arguments Are Obvious

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - MEDTRONIC, INC. v. TELEFLEX INNOVATIONS S.A.R.L. [OPINION] (21-2359, 21-2362, 21-2366, Moore, Lourie, and Dyk) - Moore, Chief J. The Court affirmed a PTAB decision (1) finding...more

6/14/2023 / Medtronic , Obviousness , Patent Litigation , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents , Precedential Opinion , PTAB Precedential Opinion Panel (POP)

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Federal Circuit rejects invitation to abandon abuse-of-discretion standard of review in attorneys’...

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - ONESUBSEA IP UK LIMITED v. FMC TECHNOLOGIES, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1099, 5/23/2023) (Moore, Clevenger, and Dyk) - Clevenger, J. The Court affirmed a district court decision...more

6/1/2023 / 35 U.S.C. § 285 , Attorney's Fees , Patent Litigation , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents , Standard of Review

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: IPR petitioner not required to anticipate and raise analogous art arguments in petition

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - HIP, INC. v. HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION (2022-1696, 5/2/23) (Lourie, Clevenger, and Taranto) Lourie, J. The Court reversed the district court’s decision regarding joint...more

5/17/2023 / Analogous Art , Claim Construction , Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding , Inventors , Joint Inventors , Obviousness , Patent Litigation , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents , Precedential Opinion

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Motivation to combine in IPRs, ambiguous non-infringement stipulations, and more

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. INTEL CORPORATION v. PACT XPP SCHWEIZ AG [OPINION] (2022-1037, 3/13/23) (Newman, Prost, Hughes) - Prost, J. Reversed and remanded in favor of petitioner Intel because the...more

3/22/2023 / Amazon , Apple , Intel , Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding , Noninfringement , Patent Infringement , Patent Litigation , Patents , Popular , Precedential Opinion

AI Can Almost Generate Evidence Of Patent Obviousness

For a patent to be valid, the critical question often is whether its invention was obvious, namely whether the differences between the invention and what existed before, i.e., the prior art, would have been obvious to a...more

3/16/2023 / Artificial Intelligence , Obviousness , Patents , Prior Art

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Dietary supplement patent invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because “the asserted claims do not have...

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - SSI TECHNOLOGIES, LLC v. DONGGUAN ZHENGYANG ELECTRONIC MECHANICAL LTD. [OPINION] (2021-2345, 2022-1039, 2/13/2023) (Reyna, Bryson, and Cunningham) - Bryson, J. The Court...more

3/8/2023 / Patent Invalidity , Patent Litigation , Patents , Precedential Opinion , PTAB Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) , Section 101

The Top 10 Legal and Business Risks of Chatbots and Generative AI

It took just two months from its introduction in November 2022 for the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot ChatGPT to reach 100 million monthly active users—the fastest growth of a consumer application in...more

2/28/2023 / Artificial Intelligence , Bots , Machine Learning , Risk Assessment , Risk Mitigation , Technology

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Prosecution laches is an equitable and flexible doctrine that requires considering the totality of...

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. PERSONALIZED MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, LLC v. APPLE INC. [OPINION] (2021-2275, 1/20/23) (Reyna, Chen, and Stark) - Reyna, J. Affirming district court’s decision that asserted...more

2/14/2023 / Apple , Google , Patent Litigation , Patents , Precedential Opinion

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Federal Circuit Affirms Decision to Impose Discovery Sanctions Against Defendant for Late Disclosure...

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. ADASA INC. v. AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION [OPINION] (2022-1092, 12/16/2022) (Moore, Hughes, and Stark) - Moore, C.J. The Court affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded...more

1/4/2023 / Appeals , Cross-Appeals , Discovery , Joinder , Patent Infringement , Patent Invalidity , Patent Litigation , Patents , Precedential Opinion , Sanctions

Collateral estoppel in IPR proceedings requires that the issues of patentability be identical, not that the patent claims need to...

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. GOOGLE LLC v. HAMMOND DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL, INC. [OPINION] (21-2218, 12/8/2022) (Moore, Chen, and Stoll) - Moore, Chief J. Reversing in part and affirming in part...more

12/16/2022 / Collateral Estoppel , Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding , Mandamus Petitions , Patent Infringement , Patent Litigation , Patent Trial and Appeal Board , Patents , Precedential Opinion

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: IPR disclaimers are binding in later proceedings but not in the proceeding in which it is made

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. VLSI TECHNOLOGY LLC v. INTEL CORPORATION [OPINION] (2021-1826, 11/15/22) (Chen, Bryson, Hughes) - Bryson, J. Affirming in part, reversing in part, and remanding...more

12/12/2022 / Disclaimers , Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding , Patent Litigation , Patents , Precedential Opinion

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: How can an irrevocable license be revoked?

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - UNILOC 2017 LLC v. GOOGLE LLC [OPINION] (2021-1498, 2021-1500, 2021-1501, 2021-1502, 2021-1503, 2021-1504, 2021-1505, 2021-1506, 2021-1507, 2021-1508, 2021-1509, 11/4/2022) (Lourie,...more

11/15/2022 / Apple , Google , Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding , IP License , Motorola , Patents , Precedential Opinion , Revocation , Standing

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