Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- an article detailing how “[t]hree judges of the Federal Circuit wrestled at oral argument with whether a trial court properly prevented publication of a patent application . . .”;
- another article discussing the Federal Circuit’s affirmation of a “district court’s finding that a patent claim does not fail the written description requirement merely because the specification fails to explicitly state a negative claim limitation”;
- another article detailing how the Federal Circuit has considered whether “USPTO reexam estoppel orders [are] appealable”; and
- yet another article stating that the Federal Circuit would hear a case “that threatens the statutory presumption afforded copyright registration.”