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CASE OF THE WEEK Littelfuse, Inc. v. Mersen USA EP Corp. , Appeal No. 2021-2013 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 4, 2022)‎ Our Case of the Week focuses on the issue of claim construction, and, more specifically, the doctrine ‎of claim differentiation. ‎ The…
LITTELFUSE, INC. v. MERSEN USA EP CORP. Before Prost, Bryson, and Stoll. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Summary: The Federal Circuit vacated a claim construction that violated the doctrine of claim differentiation by…
CASE OF THE WEEK Genuine Enabling Technology LLC v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. , Appeal No. 2020-2167 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 1, 2022) ‎ The Federal Circuit’s only precedential patent opinion this week turned on issues of claim ‎construction. In particular,…
GENUINE ENABLING TECHNOLOGY LLC V. NINTENDO CO., LTD Before Newman, Reyna, and Stoll. Appeal from the Western District of Washington. Summary: A finding of prosecution disclaimer must be supported by an unambiguous disavowal within the intrinsic record.…
CASE OF THE WEEK Hunting Titan, Inc. v. DynaEnergetics Europe GMBH , Appeal Nos. 2020-2163, -2191 (Fed. Cir. March 24, 2022) In a notable review of the USPTO’s new Precedential Opinions Panel, the Federal Circuit discussed the circumstances under…
CASE OF THE WEEK BASF Plant Sci., LP v. Commonw. Scientific and Indus. Research Org. , Appeal Nos. 2020-1415, -1416, -1919, -1920 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 15, 2022) Our Case of the Week, an appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,…
ALMIRALL, LLC v. AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALS LLC Before Lourie, Chen, and Cunningham. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Presumption of obviousness based on overlapping ranges applied where a prior-art reference disclosed an element in the…
CASE OF THE WEEK In re: Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and In re: Hyundai Motor America , Appeal Nos. 2022-108, -109 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 9, 2022) In the most recent of multiple mandamus rulings issued by the Federal Circuit in relation to Western District…
APPLE INC. v. MPH TECHNOLOGIES OY Before Moore, Prost, and Taranto. Appeal from Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The proximity of concepts in a claim may link the concepts together and affect the plain meaning of the claim. Apple petitioned for…
HOYT AUGUSTUS FLEMING V. CIRRUS DESIGN CORPORATION Before Lourie, Hughes, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: A claim is obvious where “the proposed combination of [the references]—rather than one of the…
On February 10, 2022, in Junker v. Medical Components, Inc ., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s grant of summary judgment of no invalidity under the “on-sale bar” of 35…
CASE OF THE WEEK DBN Holding, Inc. v. International Trade Commission , Appeal No. 2020-2342 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 1, 2022)‎ The Federal Circuit issued only one precedential decision this week relating to a patent case. On this appeal—the fourth in the…
