Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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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 Elbit Systems Land and C4I Ltd. v. Hughes Network Systems, LLC , Appeal No. 2018-1910 (Fed. Cir. June 25, 2019) In this appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the Federal Circuit affirmed the…
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…
The Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit issued three precedential opinions this week concerning matters of first impression involving inter partes reviews, two of which concern the status of government actors in the process. We cover those below. In our…
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 Papst Licensing GMBH & Co. KG v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. , Appeal No. 2018-1777 (Fed. Cir. May 23, 2019) In a sternly-worded decision this week, the Federal Circuit held claims to be invalid because the patentee dropped a related…
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 ThermoLife Int’l LLC v. GNC Corp. , Appeal Nos. 2018-1657, 2018-1666 (Fed. Cir. May 1, 2019) In an appeal from a district court decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of defendants Hi-Tech’s and…
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…
CASE OF THE WEEK Omega Patents, LLC v. CalAmp Corp. , Appeal No. 2018-1309 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 8, 2019) In an appeal from a series of post-trial decisions, the Federal Circuit provided several important opinions. The Court addressed the effects of failing to…
