Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- an article about Judge Newman’s comment that “it’s time to reevaluate the America Invents Act, the landmark 2011 law that created new procedures for filing and challenging patents”;
- an article commenting on how Judge Newman “is considering an invitation to sit by designation in district court and oversee a trial after nearly four decades as an appellate judge”; and
- a blog post discussing “[t]he Federal Circuit’s new Finjan decision . . . focus[ing] attention on … patent law’s . . . ‘indefinite article shuffle.’”
Ryan Lynch wrote an article for Law360 about Judge Newman’s comment that “it’s time to reevaluate the America Invents Act, the landmark 2011 law that created new procedures for filing and challenging patents.” According to Lynch, Judge Newman “noted that the law may need to change to catch up to the rapid pace of innovation in digital industries.”
Ryan Davis authored an article for Law360 commenting on how Judge Newman “is considering an invitation to sit by designation in district court and oversee a trial after nearly four decades as an appellate judge.” Davis discusses Judge Newman’s presentation at the ABA’s Intellectual Property Fall Institute, where she “made only one oblique reference to the year long suspension imposed last money by the other Federal Circuit judges.”
Dennis Crouch wrote a blog post for Patently-O discussing “[t]he Federal Circuit’s new Finjan decision . . . focus[ing] attention on . . . patent law’s . . . ‘indefinite article shuffle.’” Crouch highlighted how the Federal Circuit found “that the transition from ‘a computer’ to ‘the computer’ requires the same computer perform both operations.”