Late Friday afternoon, the Federal Circuit released a nonprecedential opinion concerning a pro se appeal from the Court of Federal Claims and four nonprecedential orders dismissing three appeals and a petition. This morning, the Federal Circuit released one nonprecedential opinion and three nonprecedential orders. Today’s opinion comes in a patent case appealed from the Northern District of Illinois. As for today’s orders, one grants a motion to remand a case while the others are dismissals. Here are the introductions to the opinions as well as links to the orders.
Berkeley*IEOR v. W.W. Grainger Inc. (Nonprecedential)
This is a cross-appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, concerning (1) the district court’s order staying and severing four counts of a five-count complaint, with each of Counts I–IV alleging direct infringement, (2) summary judgment of patent eligibility, (3) summary judgment of no indirect infringement under the fifth count, and (4) subsequent dismissal of Counts I–IV in light of the summary judgment of no indirect infringement under Count V.
Because we hold that the asserted claims are patent ineligible, we reverse the summary judgment of eligibility and affirm the judgment for Counts I–V on the alternative ground of patent ineligibility.
Strong v. United States (Nonprecedential)
Nathan Strong appeals a final decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims. The trial court dismissed Mr. Strong’s complaint for failure to plausibly allege breach of contract or otherwise state a claim for which the trial court could grant relief and because certain of his claims belonged at the Merit Systems Protection Board. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm-in-part, vacate-in-part, and dismiss-in-part.