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BAXALTA INC. V. GENENTECH, INC. Before Moore, Plager, and Wallach. Appeal from the District of Delaware Summary: A district court erred by interpreting a specification’s description of an “antibody” as a definition, when that description…
E GE NERA, INC. v. CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. Before Prost, Stoll, and Reyna. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Summary: A patentee that successfully petitioned to correct a patent’s inventorship by removing a…
CASE OF THE WEEK Baxalta Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. , Appeal No. 2019-1527 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 27, 2020) In this week’s Case of the Week, an appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, the Federal Circuit deals with issues…
RICHARD SOWINSKI v. CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD Before Newman, Lourie, and Schall. Appeal from the District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary: Res judicata may bar subsequent claims regarding conduct substantially similar to conduct…
Editors: Scott D. Eads and Nika Aldrich CASE OF THE WEEK Security People, Inc. v. Iancu , Appeal No. 2019-2118 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 20, 2020) This week’s Case of the Week deals with whether a party can challenge the outcome of an inter partes review (IPR)…
CASE OF THE WEEK Illumina, Inc. v. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. , Appeal No. 2019-1419 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 3, 2020) Our Case of the Week this week is a rehash of a case we discussed several months ago. But it is the second time in only a few days that a panel of…
BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC. v. 10X GENOMICS INC. Before Newman, O’Malley, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Where elements of preamble are limiting, indivisible terms in the remainder of…
FASTSHIP, LLC v. US Before Dyk, Wallach, and Chen. Appeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims. Summary: A Court of Claims fee award under 28 U.S.C. § 1498(a), turns on whether the government’s litigation conduct was substantially…
ILLUMINA, INC. v. ARIOSA DIAGNOSTICS, INC. Before Lourie, Moore, and Reyna. Modified opinion following Ariosa rehearing petition. Summary: The Federal Circuit modified its earlier decision and clarified the difference between a natural phenomenon and human…
AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING v. NEAPCO HOLDINGS LLC Before Dyk, Moore, and Taranto. Appeal from the District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Claims directed to a law of nature, without more, may not be patent eligible. American Axle &…
XY, LLC v. TRANS OVA GENETICS, LC Before Wallach, Plager, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Summary: Claims directed to improving a method of operating an apparatus may be patent eligible subject matter.…
IBSA INSTITUT BIOCHIMIQUE, S.A. V. TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC. Before Prost, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the District Court of Delaware Summary: A term may be indefinite when the proposed construction is not supported by the record and the meaning is…
