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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Claims May Bend But Are Not Broken: Judge Locke Rejects Indefiniteness Arguments in Fiber Optic Cables Case

In a patent-infringement case involving fiber-optic-cable assemblies, Magistrate Judge Steven I. Locke (E.D.N.Y.) recently rejected defendants’ arguments that two terms in the patent claims were indefinite under 35 U.S.C. §...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

The Jury Returns...Returns

Happy New Year! 2021 begins as 2020 ended: mostly without jury trials. Some are determined to change that, however, which brings us to the latest in the saga of Judge Alan Albright’s US District Court for the Western District...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

In WDTex, the Fight Escalates: Federal Patent Trial Moved to Waco

Last week we told you about Judge Alan Albright’s determination to keep trying patent cases. He had a trial scheduled for January in Austin, where he had transferred the case pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404 while leaving himself...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Guest Post -- Reconsidered: The Federal Circuit's Enfish Interpretation of Mayo-Alice

The esteemed authors of Patent Docs have written of the need to reconsider the Federal Circuit's approach to section 101 eligibility, given the court's latest expansion and en-banc vote on subject-matter eligibility in AAM v....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Is It Time for Federal Circuit to Rethink Its Subject Matter Eligibility Jurisprudence? 

The Federal Circuit's inchoate attempts to fashion a consistent, rational application of the Supreme Court's recent subject matter eligibility jurisprudence, while understandably Herculean in view of the difficulties inherent...more

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