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CASE OF THE WEEK Purdue Pharma L.P. v. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. (United States Patent and Trademark Office intervening), Appeal No. 2022-1482 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 21, 2023) In the Federal Circuit’s only precedential patent opinion last week, the…
CASE OF THE WEEK Finjan LLC v. SonicWall, Inc. , Appeal No. 2022-1048 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 13, 2023) In the Federal Circuit’s only precedential opinion this week, a majority affirmed summary judgment of non-infringement on appellant Finjan’s malware…
CASE OF THE WEEK Sisvel International S.A. v. Sierra Wireless, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2022-1493, -1547 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 6, 2023) Our Case of the Week falls in a series of cases concerning patents that claim a means for performing a particular function using a…
CASE OF THE WEEK Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. v. Seirus Innovative Accessories, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2021-2299, -2338 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 15, 2023) In a decade-old case that has raised a number of issues relating to design patents over two separate…
CASE OF THE WEEK In re Cellect, LLC , Appeal Nos. 2022-1293, -1294, -1295, -1296 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 28, 2023) In a significant appeal from ex parte reexamination proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the Federal Circuit addressed whether…
CASE OF THE WEEK Volvo Penta of the Americas, LLC v. Brunswick Corp. , Appeal No. 2022-1765 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 24, 2023) In its only precedential patent case of the week, the Federal Circuit held the Patent Trial and Appeal Board erred in finding a boat…
CASE OF THE WEEK Incept LLC v. Palette Life Sciences, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2021-2063, -2065 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 16, 2023) In the Federal Circuit’s only precedential opinion this week, the Court affirmed inter partes review findings that challenged claims…
CASE OF THE WEEK Axonics, Inc. v. Medtronic, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2022-1532, -1533 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 7, 2023) In this week’s case of the week, the Federal Circuit re-affirmed existing precedent that in inter partes review proceedings before the Patent…
CASE OF THE WEEK SNIPR Technologies Limited v. Rockefeller University , Appeal No. 2022-1260 (Fed. Cir. July 14, 2023) Our case of the week addresses a wrinkle in the law concerning disputes between parties that filed patent applications covering the same…
CASE OF THE WEEK In re: John L. Couvaras , Appeal No. 2022-1489 (Fed. Cir. June 14, 2023) In our Case of the Week, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeals Board decision that a patent application’s claims…
CASE OF THE WEEK Medtronic, Inc. et al. v. Teleflex Innovations S.A.R.L. , Appeal Nos. 2021-2356, -2358, -2361, -2363, and -2365 (Fed. Cir. May 24, 2023) In this week’s Case of the Week, a split panel of the Federal Circuit considered issues…
Last week, we published our fifth annual Patent Intelligence Report, which covers the patent prosecution landscape between Jan. 1, 2018, and Dec. 31, 2022. This year we considered attorney interview with the USPTO as an additional measure of…
