Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today we highlight:
- an article describing how the Federal Circuit “temporarily reinstated the most sweeping of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Thursday, a day after a U.S. trade court ruled that Trump had exceeded his authority in imposing the duties and ordered an immediate block on them;”
- another article similarly addressing how the Federal Circuit “temporarily agreed to preserve many of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners”;
- a report outlining how “[t]hree appeals in federal patent-infringement lawsuits center on the legality of an East Texas judge’s unconventional choice to have juries answer a single yes-or-no question on whether defendants copied multiple patents rather than deciding separately whether each individual patent was infringed”; and
- a piece examining the “intellectual property-related provisions” in “the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act,'” which passed the House of Representatives on May 22.
Dietrich Knauth and Sarah Marsh posted an article with Reuters describing how the Federal Circuit “temporarily reinstated the most sweeping of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Thursday, a day after a U.S. trade court ruled that Trump had exceeded his authority in imposing the duties and ordered an immediate block on them.”
Tony Romm authored an article in the New York Times also addressing how the Federal Circuit “temporarily agreed to preserve many of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners.” Romm explained how “[t]he move paused an earlier decision by” the Court of International Trade “that would have forced the White House to wind down duties deemed to be illegal.”
Michael Shapiro published a report for Bloomberg Law outlining how “[t]hree appeals in federal patent-infringement lawsuits center on the legality of an East Texas judge’s unconventional choice to have juries answer a single yes-or-no question on whether defendants copied multiple patents rather than deciding separately whether each individual patent was infringed.” Shapiro highlighted how the Federal Circuit now “must decide whether to endorse or reject this verdict format,” and how the district judge’s use of this format “has gotten the attention of defense-side patent litigators because of the amount of damages connected to the verdicts and his place in the patent-litigation ecosystem.”
Peter Harter posted a piece on IP Watchdog examining the “intellectual property-related provisions” in “the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act,'” which passed the House of Representatives on May 22. Harter said “[t]he intellectual property provisions of the OBBBA do not send a clear signal about whether the House Republican majority or the Trump Administration are pro or anti-IP.” Harter, however, also noted “[t]he AI provisions may signal a bias toward de-regulation of AI at the expense of IP enforcement.”