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CASE OF THE WEEK E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Unifrax I LLC , Appeal No. 2017-2575 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 17, 2019) Our featured case of the week revolved primarily around the construction of a single claim term in a patent. At issue is the meaning of the…
CASE OF THE WEEK Coda Development S.R.O. v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. , Appeal No. 2018-1028 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 22, 2019) In an appeal from a district court dismissal of a case seeking correction of inventorship , the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded…
CASE OF THE WEEK CenTrak, Inc. v. Sonitor Technologies, Inc. , Appeal No. 2017-2510 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 14, 2019) In this appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded an order granting…
CASE OF THE WEEK Natural Alternatives International, Inc. v. Iancu , Appeal No. 2017-1962 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 1, 2018) In an appeal from an inter partes reexamination, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Board’s determination that the challenged claims were…
CASE OF THE WEEK In re Ron Maatita , Appeal No. 2017-2037 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 20, 2018) In an appeal from an examiner’s rejection, the Federal Circuit addressed a rare issue concerning the application of 35 U.S.C. § 112 to design patents . The…
CASE OF THE WEEK Click-to-Call Technologies, LP v. Ingenio, Inc. , Appeal No. 2015-1242 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 16, 2018)‎ In an appeal of an inter partes review, the Federal Circuit reviewed for the first time the merits of whether a petition was time barred…
CASE OF THE WEEK JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd. , Appeal No. 2017-1828 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 3, 2018) The Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from an inter partes review , holding that, although JTEKT Corporation had the right to file an inter partes…
CASE OF THE WEEK Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Merck & Co., Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2016-2302, -2615 (Fed. Cir. 2018) In an appeal from a bench trial finding patents unenforceable, the Federal Circuit issued a rare decision on the doctrine of unclean hands. The…
LATEST FROM THE SUPREME COURT We issue today’s special edition of Fresh from the Bench to summarize two important precedential decisions issued this morning by the Supreme Court. Both cases concern inter partes reviews, and both cases open the door…
CASE OF THE WEEK Vanda Pharm. Inc. v. West-Ward Pharm. Int’l Ltd. et al. , Appeal Nos. 16-2707, 16-2708 (Fed. Cir. 2018)‎ In an ANDA applicant’s appeal from a bench trial judgment of validity and infringement, the Court affirmed the…
In re Power Integrations, Inc. , Appeal No. 17-1304 (Fed. Cir. 2018) In In re: Power Integrations, Inc. , the Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial and ‎Appeal Board’s (PTAB) rejection of a patent as anticipated . Fairchild Semiconductor…
Ottah v. Fiat Chrysler , Appeal No. 2017-1842 (March 7, 2018) In Ottah v. Fiat Chrysler , the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment of non-infringement as to certain defendants, and affirmed its Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal…
