Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- an article discussing “what the patent eligibility restoration act means for artificial intelligence inventions”;
- an article highlighting the upcoming oral argument in “a highly anticipated appeal that is expected to center on how courts come up with damages” in a case involving a “whopping $2.175 billion verdict”;
- an article discussing a “debate over aging Judges’ lifetime tenure,” a debate that has come into focus in light of “the recent sanction and suspension of Pauline Newman, the nation’s oldest active federal judge”; and
- an article summarizing how “Greece’s air force urged the Federal Circuit to revive its $23 million breach of contract lawsuit against the U.S. government over an arms deal for military surveillance equipment.”
Wen Xie and Gene Quinn wrote an article for IPWatchdog discussing “what the patent eligibility restoration act means for artificial intelligence inventions.” According to Xie and Quinn, “the proposed legislation attempts to deal with each of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Alice, Mayo and Myriad, plus all of their progeny applications thereafter engendered by the Federal Circuit, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), all the way down to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) examining corp.”
Andrew Karpan authored an article for Law360 highlighting the upcoming oral argument in VLSI Technology v. Intel, calling the case “a highly anticipated appeal that is expected to center on how courts come up with damages.” Karpan noted how in the appeal the Federal Circuit will review a “whopping $2.175 billion verdict that licensing business VLSI Technology won from a jury in Waco, Texas, in 2021 after the panel found that Intel infringed two VLSI microchip patents.”
Michael Shapiro wrote an article for Bloomberg Law discussing a “debate over aging Judges’ lifetime tenure,” a debate that has come into focus in light of “the recent sanction and suspension of Pauline Newman, the nation’s oldest active federal judge.” According to Shapiro, “[t]he investigation—which has played out in an unusually public way—has divided court watchers and provoked varied responses from scholars who have studied the issue of an aging federal judiciary.”
Alyssa Aquino authored an article for Law360 summarizing how “Greece’s air force urged the Federal Circuit to revive its $23 million breach of contract lawsuit against the U.S. government over an arms deal for military surveillance equipment.” According to Aquino, “[t]he suit arose from the Greek government’s 1999 purchase of military surveillance cameras from a U.S. defense contractor.”