Addressing the appropriateness of three separate damages awards totaling $520 million, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the lower court’s award of $140 million in compensatory damages, but found that...more
Addressing whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) ran afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in finding that a dependent claim was valid despite the patent owner’s lack of validity arguments beyond those...more
8/13/2020
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
America Invents Act ,
Appeals ,
FanDuel ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Motivation to Combine ,
Obviousness ,
Online Gaming ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Ownership ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents
Addressing the appropriateness of the district court’s decision to deny attorneys’ fees relating to a copyright claim it labeled “frivolous,” the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the denial, despite the...more
Addressing both the availability of appeal in the absence of a Rule 50(b) motion and the appropriateness of importing limitations from the specification in a 35 USC § 101 analysis, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal...more
Addressing the proper construction for two claim terms construed by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) as part of related inter partes review (IPR) proceedings, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed...more
Addressing the applicability of issue preclusion in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that a patent owner’s arguments on appeal were precluded based on similar...more
7/8/2019
/ Appeals ,
Final Written Decisions ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Issue Preclusion ,
Oral Argument ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Samsung ,
Voluntary Dismissals
Addressing the standard for qualifying as a covered business method (CBM) patent and the procedure for analyzing the claims of such patents under 35 USC § 101, the US Court of Appeals found that the challenged claims were...more
Addressing the various factors a court may consider in order to determine whether a claim is “directed to” an abstract idea, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the district court’s dismissal of all claims...more
4/25/2019
/ Abstract Ideas ,
Appeals ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Dismissals ,
Federal Rule 12(b)(6) ,
Inventions ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Reaffirmation
Addressing for the first time the meaning of “manufactured” for the purposes of 28 USC § 1498, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the US Court of Federal Claims’ interpretation of “manufactured” as being...more