Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- an article highlighting the “Federal Circuit’s sua sponte order informing future litigants that evading briefing limits by incorporating much larger documents will likely result in sanctions”; and
- an article discussing how “the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment” in a case involving “technology used in Facebook’s search interface.”
Steve Brachmann wrote an article for IP Watchdog highlighting the “Federal Circuit’s sua sponte order informing future litigants that evading briefing limits by incorporating much larger documents will likely result in sanctions.” As explained by Brachmann, the court entered the order after a brief “incorporated by reference briefing from a companion appeal that totaled more than 2,000 words” when the brief was limited to 700 words.
Adam Taylor authored an article for Bloomberg Law discussing how “the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment” in a case involving “technology used in Facebook’s search interface.” Taylor discusses the Federal Circuit’s conclusion that “Judge Willian Alsup . . . adopted faulty interpretations of two disputed terms in the patents” and “erred in applying meanings for patent terms from another case involving the protected technology.”