Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- an article discussing the legal battle between Judge Newman and “her fellow judges on the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, who have tried to pressure her to step aside”;
- a blog post discussing a Federal Circuit opinion vacating an attorneys’ fees award in a patent case, an opinion authored by Western District of Texas Judge Alan Albright, who sat by designation;
- an article reporting on amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court “urging it to leave in place” a Federal Circuit decision regarding the application of the obviousness-type double patenting doctrine to patent term adjustments; and
- an article discussing a Federal Circuit opinion holding that patent law’s on-sale bar still applies to secret processes after the America Invents Act.