Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today we highlight:
- an article covering how the Federal Circuit “ruled Friday that the United States must face potentially billions of dollars in legal claims over a temporary ban on residential evictions during the COVID pandemic that affected millions of landlords”;
- a blog post addressing how “Micron Technology has petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to reverse a discovery order requiring the company to produce 73 pages of its most sensitive source code in paper form to Chinese state-owned semiconductor manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies Company”;
- a report describing how the “US Patent and Trademark Office paused TikTok Inc.’s challenges to seven Bluetooth technology patents over concerns about the social media giant’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party”; and
- a piece observing how, “[a]ccording to the request for information posted on SAM.gov Wednesday, USPTO is seeking contractors with new AI tools or IT capabilities that could boost the agency’s efficiency in granting patents, registering trademarks and advancing intellectual property policies.”