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CASE OF THE WEEK Trustees of Columbia University v. Gen Digital Inc. , Appeal No. 2024-1243 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 11, 2026) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit vacated a $185 million damages award for willful infringement of Columbia University’s…
MTD PRODUCTS INC. V. IANCU Before Reyna, Taranto, and Stoll . Appeal from the PTAB. Toro petitioned for IPR of an MTD Products patent relating to lawnmowers. MTD argued the term “mechanical control assembly” was a means-plus-function term. The…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Prost, Bryson, and O’Malley . Appeal from the United States International Trade Commission (“ITC”). Summary: Evidence intrinsic to a patent may be sufficient to overcome the presumption that § 112…
Federal Circuit Summary Before Reyna, Taranto, and Hughes . Appeal from the Northern District of California. Summary : Failure to use the word “means” creates a rebuttable presumption that the term is not a means-plus-function limitation…
Written by Scott R. Seeley and Andrea Cheek The Federal Circuit upheld an IPR final written decision by the PTAB holding that MindGeek’s claims were unpatentable in Skky, Inc. v. MindGeek, S.A.R.L., No. 2016-2018 (Fed. Cir. June 7, 2017). MindGeek…
