877 articles · page 51 of 74
A Florida judge recently entered a permanent injunction against a handful of Florida businesses and their owner, barring them from further infringing a patent covering biometric security for automobiles. The injunction was entered even though the…
Before Prost , Dyk, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary : When the Federal Circuit holds that a combination of references does not teach a particular limitation, that does not foreclose…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Prost , Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Summary: An abstract idea cannot be used to supply an inventive concept that renders a claim “significantly more” than…
CASE OF THE WEEK Grunenthal GMBH v. Alkem Labs., Ltd. , Appeal Nos. 2017-1153, -2048, -2049, -2050 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 28, 2019) This week the Federal Circuit issued a rare decision concerning the utility doctrine in patent law. In general, patents are issued…
Before Judges Reyna , Taranto, and Chen. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Summary : There may be no reasonable expectation of success in producing a specific polymorph of a compound when that compound is not known to be…
Before Wallach, Clevenger, and Stoll . Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary : Claims directed to a specific method of treatment for specific patients using a specific compound at specific doses to achieve a…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Prost, Reyna, Taranto . Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : Where the preamble of a claim merely identifies an intended use and does not impose a structural requirement, and only the body of the claim…
CASE OF THE WEEK SRI Int’l, Inc. v. Cisco Sys., Inc. , Appeal No. 2017-2223 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 20, 2019) In a decision following trial, the Federal Circuit addressed the issue of the eligibility of patent claims directed to technology meant to improve…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Lourie, O’Malley, and Stoll . Appeal from District of Delaware. Summary : Under step one of Alice , a claim is not directed to an abstract idea when it recites a specific technique to solve a technological problem…
In Natural Alternatives Int’l., Inc. v. Creative Compounds, LLC, Appeal No. 2018-1295 (Fed. Cir., March 15, 2019) a divided panel of the Fed. Cir. held that claims to methods of increasing the anaerobic working capacity in a human subject by…
CASE OF THE WEEK Natural Alternatives Int’l v. Creative Compounds, LLC , Appeal No. 2018-1295 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 15, 2019) In an appeal from a judgment on the pleadings, the Federal Circuit reversed, issuing an opinion that clarifies when a medical…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Moore , Reyna, and Wallach. Appeal from the Southern District of California. Summary : District court improperly held that claims were directed to a natural law where the claims recited a method of treatment requiring a…
