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Federal Circuit Says Claim Cancellation Can Create Prosecution History Estoppel

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In a July 18 precedential decision in Colibri Heart Valve LLC v. Medtronic CoreValve LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned a $106 million jury verdict against Medtronic for infringement of a patent...more

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Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending July 11, 2025

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Egenera, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., No. 2023-1428 (Fed. Cir. (D. Mass.) July 7, 2025). Opinion by Stark, joined by Prost and Taranto. Egenera owns a patent related to improved systems and methods for deploying and...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - March 2024

Freshub, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2022-1391, -1425 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 26, 2024) In the Court’s only precedential patent opinion this week, the Court affirmed a jury finding that use of Amazon’s “Alexa” products...more

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

2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

Last year, in our inaugural issue of “The Year in Review,” we reported that since the landmark jury verdict in the IP litigation between Apple and Samsung in 2012, which awarded more than $1B to Apple for infringement of...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Watch - April 2022

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION v. MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS, LLC [OPINION]  (2021-1609, 2021-1633, April 8, 2022) (NEWMAN, PROST, and TARANTO) - Prost, J.  Affirming in part and...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Apportionment Unnecessary When Royalty Is Based on Comparable License

Rejecting a defendant’s request for a new trial on a variety of grounds, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a damages award and explained that apportionment was unnecessary because a sufficiently...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Updates - September 2020

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - ANTENNASYS, INC. v. AQYR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. [OPINION] (O’Malley, Bryson, Reyna) - O’Malley, J. Remanding to district court to address threshold issues of whether case should be...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - December 2019 #3

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Blackbird Tech LLC v. Health in Motion LLC, Appeal No. 2018-2393 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 16, 2019) - In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a fee award against prevailing...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

A Decision on Appeal Is Final . . . Mostly

In the latest round of the Apple/VirnetX saga, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held to its precedents in determining when 35 USC § 317(b) estoppel is triggered against inter partes re-examinations. VirnetX...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Obviousness Take Two

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

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Omega Patents, LLC v. Calamp Corp.

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Before Prost, Dyk, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Summary: Asserting the district court’s claim construction prevented consideration of additional prior art,...more

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Federal Circuit Patent Updates - September 2018

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Hyatt v. Pato (No. 2017-1722, 9/24/18) (Reyna, Wallach, Hughes) - Hughes, J. Reversing dismissal for lack of subject matter description stating, “the exclusive jurisdiction of this court and the Eastern Virginia district...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - October 2018

Gust, Inc. v. AlphaCap Ventures, LLC, Appeal No. 2017-2414 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 28, 2018) In an appeal from a district court decision awarding fees pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1927, the Federal Circuit reversed. The decision makes...more

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Supreme Court and Precedential Federal Circuit Patent Cases

In SCA v. First Quality Baby Products, the Supreme Court holds that laches should not be available as a defense in patent cases, refusing to concur with the Circuit’s en banc holding that the Patent Act’s 6-year limitation on...more

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