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CASE OF THE WEEK In Re: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University , Appeal No. 2020-1288 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 25, 2021) The Federal Circuit issued only one precedential decision this week—a companion case from a decision we wrote about…
IN RE: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY Before Prost, Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The specific combination of purely mathematical steps in a claim are not inventive enough to…
DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC. v. VETERINARY ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT, INC. Before Prost, Clevenger, and Dyk. Appeal from the Middle District of Florida. Summary: Internal efforts to maintain confidentiality are not enough to establish a confidential relationship…
CASE OF THE WEEK Uniloc 2017 LLC v. Facebook Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2019-1688, -1689 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 9, 2021) In this week’s Case of the Week, Uniloc appealed from two consolidated IPR decisions finding multiple claims unpatentable as obvious. The…
EDGEWELL PERS. CARE BRANDS, LLC v. MUNCHKIN, INC. Before Newman, Moore, and Hughes. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Summary: Apparatus claims’ non-functional terms should be construed to cover all of the…
CASE OF THE WEEK Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2020-1646, -1656 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 2, 2021) Our Case of the Week focuses on the issue of indefiniteness, and particularly, terms that are construed as being subject to…
BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC v. BAXALTA INC. Before Newman, Linn, and Stoll. Appeal from the District of Delaware. Summary: In upholding a $173 million dollar award, the Federal Circuit permitted a damages expert to present a range of reasonable potential royalty…
RAIN COMPUTING, INC. v. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD. Before Lourie, Dyk, and Moore. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Summary: The structure for performing a function of a means-plus-function term may not be a…
CASE OF THE WEEK SynQor, Inc. v. Vicor Corp. , Appeal No. 2019-1704 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 22, 2021) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit held that common law collateral estoppel could arise from a factual determination made in an inter…
BITMANAGEMENT SOFTWARE GMBH v. UNITED STATES Before NEWMAN, DYK, and O’MALLEY, Circuit Judges. Appeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims. Summary: The U.S. Navy infringed Bitmanagement’s software copyright by copying its software…
CASE OF THE WEEK John Bean Technologies Corporation v. Morris & Associates, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2020-1090, -1148 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 19, 2021) Our Case of the Week this week focuses on the doctrine of intervening rights, a doctrine that is rarely visited by the…
JOHN BEAN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. v. MORRIS & ASSOCIATES, INC. Before, Lourie, Reyna, and Wallach. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas Summary: Recoupment of monetary investment is not the sole factor a court must consider,…
