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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

  • a blog post about Judge Albright granting a motion to transfer venue while determining “the Federal Circuit had reached conclusions different from the Fifth Circuit on what Fifth Circuit law was”;
  • another blog post about a Supreme Court petition that “seek[s] clarification of the collateral estoppel doctrine” applied by the Federal Circuit to patent infringement litigation after a patent is invalidated in a proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; and
  • an article about Formula One settling a patent infringement suit over a mandatory safety feature.
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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

  • an article about the Biden Administration advising the Supreme Court not to review a pharmaceutical patent decision raising questions related to the enablement requirement;
  • a second article about the United States Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal’s response “to a number of questions surrounding abuse of the inter partes review . . . system”; and
  • a third article about “[a] recent district court order punt[ing] concerns about an administrative patent tribunal’s alleged bias to the Federal Circuit.”
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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

  • an article about a path to “clarity on patent subject matter eligibility in the wake of the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the issue”;
  • an article about a challenge at the Supreme Court to a Federal Circuit panel’s decision to grant panel rehearing and issue a new decision reaching an opposite conclusion based solely on the retirement of Judge O’Malley; and
  • an article about the Federal Circuit’s recent finding that the “U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs guidance excluding vets with partial knee replacements from evaluation for 100% disability benefits was arbitrary and capricious.”
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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

  • a blog post about a petition asking the Supreme Court to review a district judge’s decision not to recuse himself despite a family member’s ownership of stock in a party;
  • an article about Intel’s appeal to the Federal Circuit regarding “a jury’s $2.1 billion patent verdict against it”; and
  • another article about the impact of the Federal Circuit’s decision that “AI systems are not eligible to be inventors under US patent statutes.”
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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

  • an article about the disagreement between the Fifth Circuit and Federal Circuit over jurisdiction regarding “cases involving the intersection of intellectual property and antitrust law”;
  • another article about the Federal Circuit’s application of assignor estoppel in patent cases after the Supreme Court’s recent decision on point; and
  • a third article about a “rar[e] oil and gas production and oilfield services” patent infringement suit.
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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

  • a first article concerning “the importance of adhering to local rules on initial disclosures in Delaware” after the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a patent case;
  • a second article about Apple potentially escaping a $576 million judgment against it in a patent case; and
  • a third article discussing the Federal Circuit’s reopening to the public yesterday.
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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

  • an article about the “plunge by nearly one-fifth” of patent related filings in Texas federal courts;
  • another article about whether the Federal Circuit considers research tools to be covered by safe harbor provisions in the Hatch Waxman Act; and
  • a blog post about personal jurisdiction in patent infringement cases.
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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

  • an article reporting how the Federal Circuit concluded that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board “did not improperly place the burden of persuasion for proving unpatentability of proposed substitute claims . . . on [the patent owner].”
  • another article highlighting an upcoming Federal Circuit argument concerning constitutional standing; and
  • a blog post discussing “the scope of ‘comparison prior art’ available for the ordinary observer infringement analysis” in design patent cases.
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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

  • an article discussing Moderna’s claim “that Pfizer and BioNTech unlawfully copied Moderna’s inventions”;
  • an article summarizing the Federal Circuit recent ruling “that ‘plain meaning’ [of patent claims] cannot be interpreted in a vacuum”; and
  • a third article highlighting the Federal Circuit’s decision to allow Apple and several other tech companies to “continue to import and sell their smartphone devices.”
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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

  • an article commenting on the Federal Circuit’s recent decision that “only humans can be considered inventors under current U.S. patent laws”;
  • an article about how the Federal Circuit “let a Turkish steel pipe producer off the hook in a years-long anti-dumping duties dispute”; and
  • a third article about the Federal Circuit’s role in litigation surrounding property flooding in Houston during Hurricane Harvey.
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