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In Meiresonne v. Google, Inc. , [2016-1755] (March 7, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB determination that claims 16, 17, 19 and 20 of U.S. Patent No. 8,156,096 on a system whereby a user can identify a supplier of goods or services over the…
Written by Caleb A. Bates, Ph.D. and Agnes Juang, Ph.D. On January 12, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming the judgement that Eli Lilly’s U.S. Patent No. 7,772,209 (“the ’209 Patent”)…
In Personal Web Technologies, LLC v. Apple, Inc., [2016-1174] (February 14, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the Board’s claim construction but vacated the Board’s obviousness determination because the Board did not adequately support its…
Recalibration of Venue Could Change Face of Patent Litigation As most are well aware, the patent venue statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), provides that patent infringement actions “may be brought in the judicial district where the defendant resides .…
Written by Peter Heuser, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt In Shire , the panel rejects defendant’s attempt to read “consisting of” as though the claims read “consisting essentially of.” While we normally limit our comments to…
Written by Paul Chang, Ph.D. and Brenden Gingrich, Ph.D. Anticipation by inherent disclosure requires that a single prior art reference necessarily includes the unstated limitation. The unpredictable nature of biological processes means that winning…
The Federal Circuit recently vacated a Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) decision that found obvious several claims of a patent application relating to methods for re-configuring icons on a touch-sensitive display. In In re Van Os (Fed. Cir. Jan. 3,…
Written by Cheryl Burgess and Jeremy Anapol The increased prominence of Section 101 in computer-related patent disputes stems from the Supreme Court case of Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank. [1] Before Alice reached the Supreme Court, ten judges of the Federal…
Written by Lincoln Essig and Nora Marachelian The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Synopsys, Inc. v. Mentor Graphics Corp. , Case No. 2015-1599 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 17, 2016), upholding the lower court’s grant of summary judgment of invalidity…
Written by Russell Jeide and Jeremy Carney Less than a month after reversing the lower court’s determination of invalidity in McRO, Inc. v. Bandai Namco Games America, Inc. , the Federal Circuit has now upheld the invalidity of claims in FairWarning…
Written by Mike Fuller and Keith Lim The Federal Circuit recently decided a case concerning three patents owned by Intellectual Ventures I LLC (“IV”). Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Symantec Corp. , Case Nos. 2015-1769, 2015-1770, 2015-1771…
Written by Maria Anderson and Samantha Hsu The Federal Circuit recently decided two related cases concerning media content delivery patents 1 owned by Affinity Labs of Texas, LLC. In both cases, the Federal Circuit held that the patents do not cover…
