Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today we highlight:
- an article discussing how the Federal Circuit “recently clarified what prior art may be part of a ‘ground’ in an [inter partes review] and therefore subject to IPR estoppel”;
- a blog post on analyzing “several dozen new discretionary denials” issued by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart last week;
- a piece discussing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s new “[i]nterim processes for [Patent Trial and Appeal Board] Workload Management”; and
- an article reporting on how Radian Memory Systems LLC “withdrew its injunction motion seeking to block certain Samsung Electronics Co. products several weeks after the Trump administration filed a rare statement of interest in the case.”