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UNILOC USA, INC. v. MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC Before Lourie, Dyk , and Hughes. Appeal from U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Failure to vacate an adverse ruling regarding a lack of standing when settling a prior suit collaterally…
CASE OF THE WEEK Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Motorola Mobility LLC , Appeal Nos 2021-1555, -1795 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 4, 2022) Our Case of the Week is ostensibly a case about whether a patent owner has standing to sue when that patent holder has granted an exclusive…
Written by : Blake A. Winn & Daniel P. Hughes FINJAN LLC v. ESET, LLC Before Reyna , Prost, and Taranto. Appeal from the Southern District of California. Summary: Specific definitions provided in an earlier application in a patent family incorporated by…
Written by : Blake A. Winn & Daniel P. Hughes FINJAN LLC v. ESET, LLC Before Reyna , Prost, and Taranto. Appeal from the Southern District of California. Summary: Specific definitions provided in an earlier application in a patent family incorporated by…
Written by : Brian C. Barnes & J eremiah S. Helm, Ph.D. ABC CORPORATION I V. THE PARTNERSHIP AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS Before Dyk , Taranto, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Summary :…
Written by : Alex Martin del Campo & J eremiah S. Helm, Ph.D. ABC CORPORATION I v. PARTNERSHIP AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS Before Dyk, Taranto , and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Summary:…
CASES OF THE WEEK ABC Corp. v. Tomoloo Official , Appeal Nos. 2021-2277, -2355, -2150 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 28, 2022) ABC Corp. v. eBay, Inc. , Appeal No. 2022-1071 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 28, 2022) The following summary covers two decisions issued the same day, dealing…
In 2019, Stephen Thaler filed two patent applications, 16/524,350 (teaching a “Neural Flame”) and 16/524,532 (teaching a “Fractal Container”). What was unusual in these applications was that he named an AI system called DABUS…
CASE OF THE WEEK International Business Machines Corp. v. Zillow Group, Inc. et al. , Appeal No. 2021-2350 (Fed. Cir. 2022) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a Rule 12(c) judgment on the pleadings that IBM’s U.S.…
WEISNER v. GOOGLE LLC Before Stoll, Reyna, and Hughes, Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Summary: The specific implementation of an abstract idea, such as improving Internet functionality, can be a patent…
NATURE SIMULATION SYSTEMS INC. v. AUTODESK, INC. Before: Newman, Lourie, and Dyk. Appeal from the Northern District of California. Summary: “Unanswered questions” raised about asserted claim terms did not render asserted claims indefinite, in…
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. v. ZILLOW GROUP, INC. Before Hughes, Reyna, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District for the Western District of Washington. Summary: A patentee’s allegation that computer method claims made data…
