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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Patents That Merely Claim Applying Machine Learning to a New Field of Use Are Not Patent Eligible

Stark, J. Sage Products, LLC (“Sage”) challenged a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) decision finding two of Sage’s patents unpatentable. After the original appellee, Becton, Dickinson and Co., withdrew, the Director of...more

Federal Circuit Opinion on Patent Eligibility of Machine Learning Applications Underscores Potential Value of Trade Secrecy to...

On April 18, 2025, the Federal Circuit published an opinion in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp. holding that patents claiming the application of existing machine learning models “to new data environments, without...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: The Party Presentation Rule: Parties Map the Course of Litigation, Not Judges

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  ASTELLAS PHARMA v. SANDOZ INC. [OPINION] (2023-2032, 2023-2063, 2023-2089, 9/18/24) (Lourie, Prost, Reyna) - Lourie, J. The Court vacated and remanded the district...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: An Expert Need Not Have Acquired the Requisite Skill Level Prior to the Time of the Invention

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION v. APPLE INC. [OPINION] (2022-1884, 8/28/2024) (Prost, Taranto, and Chen) - Prost, J. The Court affirmed two final judgments of the...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: District Court’s “Seemingly Siloed and Inflexible Approach” to Obviousness “Ran Afoul” of KSR

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. v. TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1258, 2022-1307, 4/1/2024) (Dyk, Prost, and Hughes) - Prost, J. The Court affirmed...more

Recent Decision Raises Patent Eligibility Concerns Regarding Certain Gene Therapy-Related Inventions

This past Friday, a federal district court held that the mere fact of combining certain natural products – such as isolated, naturally occurring AAV sequences and a heterologous non-AAV sequence – and putting them into a...more

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

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

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Patent claims found to lack patentable subject matter because they used “functional language, at a...

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - NATURE SIMULATION SYSTEMS INC. v. AUTODESK, INC. [OPINION] (2020-2257, 10/17/2022) (Newman, Lourie, and Dyk) - Newman, J. The Court reversed a district court judgment that the...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: PTAB erred in not directly or implicitly addressing contested arguments in petition

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - PROVISUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. WEBER, INC. [OPINION]  (2021-1942, 2021-1975, 9/27/2022) (Prost, Reyna, and Stark) - Prost, J. Affirming in part and vacating in part decision of...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Assignor estoppel applies to claims that are not "materially broader" than the originally assigned...

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - In Re MCDONALD [OPINION] (2021-1697, 8/10/2022) (Newman, Stoll, and Cunningham) - Cunningham, J. The Court affirmed a PTAB decision rejecting reissue claims under 35 U.S.C. §...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Speculative harm did not warrant a preliminary injunction

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - LG ELECTRONICS INC. v. IMMERVISION, INC. [OPINION]  (2021-2037, 2021-2038, 7/11/2022) (Newman, Stoll, Cunningham) - Stoll, J. Affirming Board decision in IPR finding that...more

CAFC Patent Cases - September 2021 #3

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions IN RE: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC. [OPINION]  (2021-160, September 2, 2021) (Lourie, Bryson, and Taranto) - Per curiam. Issuing writ of mandamus directing the United States District Court...more

CAFC Patent Cases - July 2021

IN RE: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC., LG ELECTRONICS INC., LG ELECTRONICS USA, INC. [OPINION] (2021-139, 2021-140, 6/30/2021) (Lourie, Dyk, Reyna) - Dyk, J. Granting the writs of...more

CAFC Patent Cases - January 2021

Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - SIMIO, LLC v. FLEXSIM SOFTWARE PRODUCTS [OPINION] (2020-1171, 12/29/20) (Prost, Clevenger, Stoll) - Prost, J. Affirming dismissal because claims were ineligible under § 101....more

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