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5 days ago

Love Letters Gone Wrong: Federal Circuit's First AIA Derivation Appeal Hinges on Valentine's Day Emails

Derivation proceedings remain narrow, rare exceptions to first-to-file; AIA requires proof of derivation and prior conception but abandons first-to-invent inquiries.
#career-development
#intellectual-property
fromPatently-O
2 weeks ago

Fintiv Patent Case Against Apple Ends; Fintiv RICO case Against Apple Begins

Fintiv, Inc. lost its patent lawsuit against Apple, with the court ruling noninfringement on most claims, and has filed new legal actions against Apple.
#federal-circuit
Law
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

Federal Circuit Extends EcoFactor Framework to Patent Damages Apportionment in Jiaxing Decision

The Federal Circuit vacated a damages award and remanded for a new trial based on new reliability standards for expert testimony.
Law
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

No CA Fed Jurisdiction in _This_ Arbitration Award Challenge

Federal Circuit maintains a narrow approach to non-patent patent cases, limiting its jurisdiction in arbitration-related disputes.
#design-patents
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
2 weeks ago

CAFC Vacates Non-Infringement Ruling for Apple Due to District Court Error in Striking Expert Opinion

"The court's interpretation of Rule 3.1(c) as including an unwritten 'how' requirement was arbitrary and improperly reads in a requirement that has no support in the plain language of the rule."
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
3 weeks ago

USAA v. PNC: Costume Changes in the IPR Theatre

Inconsistent administrative decisions raise fairness concerns regarding treatment of similar cases.
#prosecution-history-estoppel
fromPatently-O
1 month ago
Law

Federal Circuit Expands Prosecution History Estoppel to Simple Claim Cancellations in Colibri Heart Valve

fromPatently-O
1 month ago
Law

Federal Circuit Expands Prosecution History Estoppel to Simple Claim Cancellations in Colibri Heart Valve

#acorda-therapeutics
#claim-construction
fromPatently-O
3 weeks ago
Intellectual property law

Red-Lining Revelations: Edits between Patent Families Continue to be Highly Relevant to Claim Construction

fromPatently-O
3 weeks ago
Intellectual property law

Red-Lining Revelations: Edits between Patent Families Continue to be Highly Relevant to Claim Construction

#uspto
#innovation
EU data protection
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 month ago

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, August 1: Senate Commerce Approves Advanced Manufacturing and Space Bills; Ninth Circuit Affirms Narrow Application of Jack Daniel's; and EU Commission Confirms Withdrawal of AI Directive and SEP Regulation

PTAB requires inter partes review petitions to identify legal and factual bases without relying on AAPA or expert testimony.
#injunction
#ipr
#remote-work
#lanham-act
fromPatently-O
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

The Services Problem That Undermines Crocs' Textualist False Advertising Defense

fromPatently-O
1 month ago
Intellectual property law

The Services Problem That Undermines Crocs' Textualist False Advertising Defense

fromPatently-O
1 month ago

The Power of Unreviewability

The Federal Circuit upheld the PTAB's decision finding IGT's patent claims obvious and ruled against Zynga's appeal regarding interference estoppel.
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 month ago

CAFC Says Prosecution History Estoppel Bars Doctrine of Equivalents Argument Due to Claim Cancellation

Cancellation bears on what can be covered under the doctrine of equivalents... because a relevant artisan would understand the close basic-physics relationship of the cancelled and retained claims.
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fromPatently-O
1 month ago

Fungi, Bacteria and the U.S. Plant Patent Act

The Plant Patent Act of 1930 allows for the patenting of newly discovered and asexually reproduced plants, including cultivated sports, mutants, hybrids, and seedlings. It, however, excludes tuber propagated plants and those found in their natural state.
Science
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

Thinking back on Milburn and Secret/Springing Prior Art

All disclosures in an issued patent serve as prior art against later filed patents from the earlier patent's filing date.
#inter-partes-review
#sonos
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

Prior Art Document vs. Prior Art Process: How Lynk Labs Exposes a Fundamental Ambiguity in Patent Law

The upcoming Supreme Court petition in Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. presents a critical examination of the meaning of "prior art" in patent law.
Intellectual property law
#cafc
#ptab
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 month ago

In Sonos v. Google, the Federal Circuit Has a Chance to Fix Its Prosecution Laches Doctrine

"If it is repugnant for legislation to apply retroactively to destroy settled expectations, it must similarly be repugnant for a concocted common law doctrine to be applied retroactively to destroy settled expectations."
Law
fromPatently-O
2 months ago

U.S. Government: NPEs Deserve Injunctive Relief when their Patents Are Infringed

The U.S. government's intervention in a patent case signifies a focus on antitrust enforcement.
fromPatently-O
2 months ago

Seeds of Doubt: Sexual Reproduction and Territorial Limits in Plant Patent Law

Driscoll's holds significant power in the berry market, not by growing berries directly but through licensing new varieties and enforcing strict patent rights.
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fromPatently-O
2 months ago

Label-Plus Infringement: The Tinderbox Theory of Generic Inducement

Hikma's generic Vascepa, with its "skinny label," poses a challenge for patent protection, potentially undermining the incentives for innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.
Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
2 months ago

Recentive Rehearing Petition Challenges CAFC's Broad Section 101 Exclusion of Machine Learning Inventions

"Until the panel decision, this Court had never suggested that Alice step one requires a patent to claim both (1) a new application of an established process and (2) an improvement to the technology used in that process."
Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
2 months ago

Dangerous Curves Ahead: Evolving Landscape of Patent Eligibility After Contour IP Holding

In Contour IP Holding, a patented video streaming technology was initially struck down in the district courts as ineligible, only to be revived by the Federal Circuit in a rare 101 reversal.
Intellectual property law
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Apple avoids Optis patent payout as judge orders a do-over

According to the appeals judges, the court's choice to combine all five infringement claims into a single question meant that the verdict form violated Apple's right to a jury unanimity for each claim.
Apple
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
2 months ago

Federal Circuit Offers Some Loosening of the Nexus Standard for Objective Indicia of Nonobviousness

Federal Circuit eased the nexus requirement for non-obviousness related to patent licensing evidence in Ancora v. Roku.
Actual patent licenses reflect validity if their value exceeds litigation costs.
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
2 months ago

A Big Win for Small Business Patent Owners: Leveling Patent Litigation

"What has always drawn my attention to the ITC is that it is a fairly collaborative and yet aggressive forum for building a detailed factual record around which you can gather a host of opinions."
Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
2 months ago

Recapping Stewart's Director Discretionary Denial Decisions So Far

The large number and vast scope of the patents asserted in the district court litigation... weighs against discretionary denial, as the Board is better suited to review a large number of patents involving diverse subject matter.
Intellectual property law
#crispr
fromPatently-O
2 months ago
Intellectual property law

Federal Circuit Clarifies Enablement Standards: Amgen Doesn't Apply to Anticipatory Prior Art

The Federal Circuit clarified the enablement standard for prior art in CRISPR gene-editing patents, affecting patent validity assessments.
fromPatently-O
2 months ago
Intellectual property law

Federal Circuit Clarifies Enablement Standards: Amgen Doesn't Apply to Anticipatory Prior Art

Intellectual property law
fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

3 Takeaways From The Lex Machina 2025 Patent Report - Above the Law

There was a 22% increase in patent case filings in 2024 compared to 2023, driven by non-high-volume plaintiffs.
EDTX's position as a premier patent litigation court is reinforced by recent trends in filings and PTAB changes.
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