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Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending August 29, 2025

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Global Health Solutions LLC, v. Marc Selner, No. 2023-2009 (Fed. Cir. (PTAB) Aug. 26, 2025). Opinion by Stark, joined by Stoll and Goldberg. “This case marks [the Federal Circuit’s] first review of an AIA derivation...more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Patent Applicants May Lose Rights by Causing Too Much Delay

On June 1, in Hyatt vs Hirshfeld, the Federal Circuit upheld the USPTO’s decision to reject a patent application for prosecution laches, based on delay by the applicant. The decision details behaviors that, while likely...more

Knobbe Martens

Federal Circuit Review - November 2019

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The Appointments Clause: Ensuring That PTAB Decisions Are Subject to Constitutional Checks and Balances  In Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., Appeal No. 18-2251, the Federal Circuit ruled that, under the then-existing...more

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

The Goods on IP - July 2018: Clearing up Conjunctive Claim Construction: PTAB Guidance on the Use of "At Least One Of"

The phrase “at least one of” is used in claims to indicate selection from a group of elements that follows the phrase. When used, practitioners may grapple with whether “at least one of A and B” or “at least one of A or B” is...more

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