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CASE OF THE WEEK Inspired Development Grp, LLC v. Inspired Products Grp., LLC , Appeal No. 2018-1616 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 18, 2019) Our first patent case of the week is not, according to the Federal Circuit, a patent case after all. Rather, applying the…
CASE OF THE WEEK Curver Luxembourg, SARL v. Home Expressions Inc. , Appeal No. 2018-2214 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 12, 2019) In a significant case in the field of design patents, the Federal Circuit clarified the scope of design patent infringement and held that a…
CASE OF THE WEEK Board of Regents of the University of Texas Sys. v. Boston Scientific Corp. , Appeal No. 2018-1700 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 5, 2019) This week’s case of the week involves issues relating to venue and state sovereignty. Specifically, the…
CASE OF THE WEEK Genetic Veterinary Sciences, Inc. v. LABOKLIN GMBH & Co. KG , Appeal No. 2018-2056 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 9, 2019) Our case of the week features a foreign University sued for declaratory judgment of patent invalidity and the questions that follow…
CASE OF THE WEEK General Electric Co. v. United Techs. Corp. , Appeal No. 2017-2497 (Fed. Cir. July 10, 2019) The Case of the Week focuses on standing to bring an appeal of an adverse decision by the PTAB in an IPR. The Federal Circuit held that GE did not…
CASE OF THE WEEK In re: Global IP Holdings LLC , Appeal No. 2018-1426 (Fed. Cir. July 5, 2019) The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) upholding an examiner’s rejection of reissue…
CASE OF THE WEEK Forum US, Inc. v. Flow Valve, LLC , Appeal No. 2018-1765 (Fed. Cir. June 17, 2019) Our case of the week features a rarely visited rule concerning reissue patents—the “original patent requirement” doctrine codified in 35…
CASE OF THE WEEK Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC v. Nanya Technology Corporation , Appeal No. 2018-1581, -1582 (Fed. Cir. May 30, 2019) In the only precedential patent case this week, the Federal Circuit addressed whether a party who is not a patentee or…
CASE OF THE WEEK AVX Corporation v. Presidio Components, Inc ., Appeal No. 2018-1106 (Fed. Cir. May 13, 2019) Following an inter partes review upholding the patentability of certain challenged claims, the Court dismissed Petitioner AVX Corporation’s…
CASE OF THE WEEK Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc. , Appeal No. 2018-1551 (Fed. Cir. May 8, 2019) In an appeal from a district court’s summary judgment of non-infringement, the Federal Circuit affirmed claim construction and non-infringement opinions in a…
CASE OF THE WEEK Neptune Generics, LLC v. Eli Lilly & Co. , Appeal Nos. 2018-1257, et al. (Fed. Cir. Apr. 26, 2019) The Federal Circuit issued only one precedential patent decision this week. The short, 11-page decision flowed from a series of IPRs…
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…
