The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s decisions finding one set of challenged claims patentable and another set of challenged claims in the same patent unpatentable. The...more
Addressing an infringement determination under the doctrine of equivalents (DOE), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that the “tangential relation” exception to the doctrine of prosecution history estoppel...more
Finding that the district court improperly restricted a defendant’s ability to present the jury with relevant evidence of invalidity after a prior remand, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a district...more
Addressing issues of obviousness and anticipation in the context of an inter partes review, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued two decisions with respect to the same patent, vacating and remanding the...more
Addressing claim construction issues, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded a district court’s summary judgment rulings finding that the district court did not...more
Addressing issues of claim construction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently reversed the decisions of two district courts, shedding some light on the impact of the Teva decision on its claim...more
e.Digital Corp. v. Futurewei Technologies, Inc. -
Addressing the issue of collateral estoppel as it relates to an earlier claim construction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed-in-part and...more
Patents/Preliminary Injunction:
Preliminary Injunction Ordered Based on Appellate Claim Construction Aria Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc. -
Addressing a preliminary injunction filed by a defendant in a...more
10/1/2013
/ Claim Construction ,
Copyright ,
Expert Testimony ,
Fair Use ,
Governmental Immunity ,
Governmental Liability ,
Infringement ,
Inter Partes Reexamination ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Jurisdiction ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Term Adjustment ,
Patents ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Registration ,
SCOTUS ,
Sovereign Immunity ,
Theft ,
Trade Secrets ,
Trademarks ,
USPTO ,
Work-For-Hire
Patent Exhaustion Rejected: Patented Seed Purchaser Has No Right to Make Copies: Bowman v. Monsanto Co. -
In a narrow ruling that reaffirms the scope of patent protection over seeds, and possibly over other...more
5/31/2013
/ Arbitration ,
Bowman v Monsanto ,
Claim Construction ,
CLS Bank ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Copyright ,
FRAND ,
Genetically Engineered Seed ,
Infringement ,
Monsanto ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Exhaustion ,
Patents ,
SCOTUS ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
Standing ,
Trademarks