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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 Yita LLC v. MacNeil IP LLC , Appeal Nos. 2022-1373, -1374 (Fed. Cir. June 6, 2023) In appeals from two inter partes reviews before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the Board) on related patents, the Federal Circuit affirmed the…
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…
CASE OF THE WEEK Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. , Appeal No. 2021-1981 (Fed. Cir. May 9, 2023) In our Case of the Week, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit considered the “analogous art” inquiry in an…
CASE OF THE WEEK FS.com Inc. v. Intern. Trade Comm. , Appeal No. 2022-1228 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 20, 2023) Our case of the week focuses on patent enablement. In particular, the Federal Circuit considered the enablement requirement in the context of…
CASE OF THE WEEK Sequoia Technology, LLC v. Dell, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2021-2263, -2264, -2265, -2266 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023) In an appeal from a stipulated judgment of noninfringement and invalidity following an adverse claim construction ruling from the…
CASE OF THE WEEK Ironburg Inventions Ltd. v. Valve Corp. , Appeal Nos. 2021-2296, 2021-2297, 2022-1070 (Fed. Cir. April 3, 2023 ) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit provided new guidance in applying the estoppel provisions of 35…
CASE OF THE WEEK Apple Inc. v. Vidal , Appeal No. 2022-1249 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 13, 2023) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit allowed Apple’s challenge to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“PTAB”) Fintiv rules to proceed, at…
CASE OF THE WEEK Regents of the University of Minnesota v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. , Appeal No. 21-2168 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 6, 2023) The Federal Circuit’s only precedential patent opinion this week focuses on the written description requirement in the…
CASE OF THE WEEK Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC , Appeal No. 2023-1186 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 24, 2023) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a permanent injunction requiring appellant Jazz…
CASE OF THE WEEK Lite-Netics, LLC v. Nu Tsai Capital LLC , Appeal No. 2023-1146 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 17, 2023) In an appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, the Federal Circuit addressed whether the district court properly granted a…
CASE OF THE WEEK CyWee Grp. Ltd. v. Google LLC , Appeal No. 20-1565 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 8, 2023) In its only precedential patent case this week, the Federal Circuit addressed last gasp efforts by CyWee to salvage its IPR losses to Google. The arguments,…
