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CASE OF THE WEEK Federal Express Corp. v. Qualcomm, Inc. , Appeal No. 2024-1236 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 29, 2026) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit considered, as a matter of first impression, whether a party can appeal the Patent Trial and Appeal…
Wriiten by : Brian C. Barnes and Nefi R. Oliva Fortress Iron, LP, v. Digger Specialties, INC. Before Lourie , Hughes, Circuit Judges , and Kleeh, Chief District Judge . Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.…
Written by : Ben K. Shiroma and Alistair J. McIntyre TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL GMBH v. ELI LILLY AND COMPANY Before Prost , Cunningham, and Andrews. Appeal from the United States District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Summary : A…
Written by : Douglas B. Wentzel and Alex Martin del Campo DEFINITIVE HOLDINGS, LLC v. POWERTEQ LLC Before Moore, Dyk, and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Utah. Summary: A third-party sale of a product embodying…
Written by : Mark Kachner and Kimberly M. Papadantonakis, Ph.D. VLSI TECHNOLOGY LLC v. INTEL CORP. Before Moore , Chen, and Kleeh. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary : The Federal Circuit reversed…
Written by : Ben K. Shiroma and Tyler S. Cox INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICES, INC. v. CORNELL Before Dyk , Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Summary : The Federal Circuit held under CUTSA…
CASE OF THE WEEK Definitive Holdings v. Powerteq LLC , Appeal No. 2024-1761 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 14, 2026) Our Case of the Week concerns an invalidity finding over a piece of prior art that was on sale in the 1990s, and the patent owner’s attempt to avoid…
Written by : Jeremiah S. Helm, Ph.D. ASCENDIS PHARMA A/S v. BIOMARIN PHARMACEUTICAL INC. Before Lourie, Chen, and Stoll . Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary : A respondent in an ITC proceeding may…
Written by : Ari Feinstein and Cesar A. Estrada IRONSOURCE LTD. v. DIGITAL TURBINE, INC. Before Moore , Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : An appellant seeking to establish Article III standing based on an…
CASE OF THE WEEK ironSource Ltd. v. Digital Turbine, Inc. , Appeal No. 2024-1831 (Fed. Cir. April 7, 2026) In its only precedential patent opinion last week, the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from a post-grant review in which substitute claims were…
ALMOST THIS WEEK Ascendis Pharma A/S v. BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. , Appeal No. 2026-1026 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 26, 2026) The Federal Circuit’s only precedential opinion last week was not quite a “patent case,” but instead concerned when a…
Written by : Daniel Kiang Richard Gramm, et al. v. Deere & Company Before Lourie, Reyna , and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Summary : Disclosure of an additional function in the specification…
