Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- an article discussing how a “consortium of patent lawyers and small startups are sounding the alarm at the Federal Circuit over a ruling last year”; and
- another article about a Federal Circuit ruling that “Intel failed to show that Koniklijke Philips NV’s patent . . . was obvious, and thus invalid, based on several previously published inventions.”
Andrew Karpan wrote an article for Law360 discussing how a “consortium of patent lawyers and small startups are sounding the alarm at the Federal Circuit over a ruling last year.” According to Karpan, amicus briefs “rolled in on Tuesday, urging the Federal Circuit to take a close look at a colorful ruling from” U.S. District Judge William Alsurp in the case Sonos, Inc. v. Google LLC.
Michael Shapiro authored an article for Bloomberg Law about a Federal Circuit ruling that “Intel failed to show that Koniklijke Philips NV’s patent . . . was obvious, and thus invalid, based on several previously published inventions.” Shapiro notes that the patent “is part of lawsuits targeting Intel Corp. and several makers of laptops with Intel chips.”