This morning the Federal Circuit released a precedential opinion in a veterans case appealed from the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, as well as a nonprecedential opinion in a patent case appealed from the Eastern District of Virginia. In the patent case, the Federal Circuit affirms holdings that claims are invalid because they are ineligible for patenting. Here are the introductions to the opinions.
Hatfield v. Collins (Precedential)
Pat A. Hatfield appeals from a decision of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (“the Veterans Court”). Hatfield v. McDonough, 36 Vet. App. 97 (2023). The Veterans Court affirmed a decision of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (“the Board”) denying Hatfield’s motion asserting clear and unmistakable error (“CUE”) to revise a previous decision of the Board rendered in 1980. Because Hatfield has not shown that the 1980 Board committed CUE, we affirm.
Geoscope Technologies Pte. Ltd. v. Google LLC (Nonprecedential)
Geoscope Technologies Pte. Ltd. (“Geoscope”) appeals final judgments of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia holding that several claims of its asserted patents were directed to patent ineligible subject matter. See Geoscope Techs. Pte. Ltd. v. Google LLC, 692 F. Supp. 3d 566 (E.D. Va. 2023) (“Google Decision”); Geoscope Techs. Pte. Ltd. v. Apple Inc., No. 1:22-cv-01373- MSN-JFA, 2023 WL 6120604 (E.D. Va. Sept. 18, 2023) (“Apple Decision”). For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.