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Womble Bond Dickinson

Controversy over “Composition”: Federal Circuit Highlights Drafting Discrepancy

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In a precedential ruling that underscores the importance of consistency in claim drafting, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a claim construction based on an improper interpretation of the...more

Lathrop GPM

Federal Circuit Decision Highlights the Risks of Inconsistency from Provisional to Patent

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In an August 1, 2025, precedential ruling (FMC Corporation v. Sharda USA, LLC, No. 24-2335 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 1, 2025)), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a temporary restraining order granted by the U.S....more

Knobbe Martens

Deleted Specification Portions Undermine Claim Construction

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FMC Corp. v. Sharda USA, LLC - Before Moore, Chen, and Barnett. Appeal from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The district court erred by construing a claim term based on disclosures made in a provisional application and...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Claim construction misstep undoes injunction

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a preliminary injunction (PI), finding that the district court improperly construed a claim term based on references cited in a provisional application but...more

Irwin IP LLP

String ‘Em Up: Light Patentee OK to Notify Others of Patent Suit: Lite-Netics, LLC, v. Nu Tsai Cap. LLC, d/b/a Holiday Bright...

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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but don’t complain to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) if a patentee calls you an infringer, claims you copied, or threatens to sue your customers.  Holding speech...more

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

Recent Trends on the U.S. Doctrine of Equivalents

U.S. courts have long recognized that a product or process which does not literally infringe a patent can nevertheless infringe under the "doctrine of equivalents" if it is equivalent to the claimed invention. The percentage...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

CAFC Upholds Preliminary Injunction Despite Unpatentability Ruling of PTAB

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This week in Tinnus Enterprises LLC v. Telebrands Corp. (Moore, Wallach and Stoll), the Federal Circuit upheld the grant of a preliminary injunction by the Eastern District of Texas, despite a PTAB Final Written Decision...more

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