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CASE OF THE WEEK Raytheon Techs. Corp. v. General Elec. Co. , Appeal No. 2020-1755 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 16, 2021) In its only precedential patent decision this week, the Federal Circuit issued an important ruling about the issue of enablement as it applies to…
CASE OF THE WEEK Wi-LAN Inc. v. Sharp Electronics Corporation , Appeal Nos. 2020-1041, -1043 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 6, 2021) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit addressed issues of claim construction and various issues concerning evidence…
CASE OF THE WEEK In Re: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University , Appeal No. 2020-1288 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 25, 2021) The Federal Circuit issued only one precedential decision this week—a companion case from a decision we wrote about…
CASE OF THE WEEK Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2020-1646, -1656 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 2, 2021) Our Case of the Week focuses on the issue of indefiniteness, and particularly, terms that are construed as being subject to…
CASE OF THE WEEK John Bean Technologies Corporation v. Morris & Associates, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2020-1090, -1148 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 19, 2021) Our Case of the Week this week focuses on the doctrine of intervening rights, a doctrine that is rarely visited by the…
CASE OF THE WEEK Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi , Appeal No. 2020-1074 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 11, 2021) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s JMOL ruling that asserted claims of two related pharmaceutical patents were…
CASE OF THE WEEK M & K Holdings, Inc. v. Samsung Elect. Co., Ltd. , Appeal No. 2020-1160 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 1, 2021) In only its third precedential patent case of 2021, the Federal Circuit addressed two discrete issues. It established further precedent…
CASE OF THE WEEK In re: Nitro Fluids L.L.C. , Appeal No. 2020-142 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 28, 2020) In the Court’s only precedential patent opinion this week, the Federal Circuit granted a mandamus petition vacating the district court’s denial of a…
CASE OF THE WEEK Immunex Corp. v. Sandoz Inc. , Appeal No. 2020-1037 (Fed. Cir. July 1, 2020) In this Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act case, the Federal Circuit affirmed the bench trial ruling of the district court that the claims of two…
CASE OF THE WEEK ESIP Series 2, LLC v. Puzhen Life USA, LLC , Appeal No. 2019-1659 (Fed. Cir. May 19, 2020) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed an inter partes review decision finding challenged claims obvious, extending…
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 Medtronic, Inc. v. Mark A. Barry , Appeal Nos. 2017-1169, -1170 (Fed. Cir. June 11, 2018) The Court affirmed-in-part and vacated-in-part a PTAB decision finding that petitioner Medtronic, Inc. had failed to prove that challenged claims…
