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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 Facebook, Inc. v. Windy City Innovations, LLC , Appeal Nos. 2018-1400 et al. (Fed. Cir. Sept. 4, 2020)‎ The only precedential decision this week was a modified panel decision of a prior precedential opinion following a petition for…
Editors: Scott D. Eads and Nika Aldrich CASE OF THE WEEK Security People, Inc. v. Iancu , Appeal No. 2019-2118 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 20, 2020) This week’s Case of the Week deals with whether a party can challenge the outcome of an inter partes review (IPR)…
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 Schwendimann v. Arkwright Advanced Coating, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2018-2416, et al. (Fed. Cir. May 5, 2020) (unsealed May 13, 2020) In this recently unsealed precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit addressed issues concerning standing to…
CASE OF THE WEEK Due to technical issues, this week’s report covers the past two weeks. HZNP Medicines LLC v. Actavis Laboratories UT , Inc., Appeal Nos. 2017-2149, et al. (Fed. Cir. Oct. 10, 2019) In a lengthy decision following a bench trial, the…
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 PersonalWeb Techs., LLC v. Apple, Inc. , Appeal No. 2018-1599 (Fed. Cir. March 8, 2019) In a second appeal in this inter partes review matter, the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB’s finding of invalidity, ending this five-year old…
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 Click-to-Call Technologies, LP v. Ingenio, Inc. , Appeal No. 2015-1242 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 16, 2018)‎ In an appeal of an inter partes review, the Federal Circuit reviewed for the first time the merits of whether a petition was time barred…
CASE OF THE WEEK Aatrix Software, Inc. v. Green Shades Software, Inc. , Appeal No. 2017-1452 (Fed. Cir. May 31, 2018) and Berkheimer v. HP Inc. , Appeal No. 2017-1437 (Fed. Cir. May 31, 2018) In these two, published, precedential orders denying rehearing…
CASE OF THE WEEK Praxair Distribution, Inc. v. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products IP Ltd. , Appeal Nos. 2016-2616, -2656 (Fed. Cir. May 16, 2018) In an appeal from a inter partes review, the Federal Circuit reviewed a PTAB obviousness decision. Importantly,…
