FedCircuitBlog

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

• an article reporting on how lawmakers are considering reforms to intellectual property litigation and the U.S. International Trade Commission; and
• an article discussing the “battle” that has “embroiled” the Federal Circuit and Judge Newman, the oldest living federal judge.

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

• an article reporting on a special committee of the Federal Circuit recommending that Judge Newman be suspended from case assignments for another year for failing to undergo required neurological exams; and
• an article reporting on the same special committee’s opinion that Judge “Newman’s refusal to submit to medical testing by the Committee’s selected doctors as ‘serious misconduct.’”

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 impact that the elimination of Chevron deference may have on the Federal Circuit’s oversight in the areas of its jurisdiction; and
• an article reporting how “General Motors is close to settling LKQ Corp.’s challenge to its design patent” in light of the “Federal Circuit’s decision to throw out the more-than 40-year-old design patent obviousness test in favor of a more relaxed framework.”

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

• a blog post regarding the D.C. district court’s dismissal of Judge Newman’s case for reinstatement to the bench, suggesting “Judge Newman deserves a parade, not this humiliation”; and
• another blog post regarding the D.C. district court’s dismissal of Judge Newman’s case for reinstatement to the bench, suggesting “one potential problem with life tenure: Sometimes judges do not know when to quit.”

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

• an article reporting on Judge Newman’s continued efforts “to regain her full judicial duties, even after the 97-year-old jurist’s federal lawsuit against her colleagues was dismissed”; and
• an article discussing how the Supreme Court’s opinion in Vidal v. Elster “carries significant implications for both trademark law and the First Amendment.”

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

• an article expressing the view that the way to “really improve the U.S. patent system” is to “support USPTO employees”; and
• an article discussing an effort “not to scale back the U.S. International Trade Commission’s patent jurisdiction” despite a recent decision of the Supreme Court.

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

• an article reflecting on the first five months of the Federal Circuits’s precedential rulings in patent cases in 2024; and
• an article expressing the opinion that a new rule proposed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would seriously harm U.S. inventors.

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

• an article expressing the opinion that the Federal Circuit’s effort to clarify design patent law in LKQ Corporation v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC “utterly failed”; and
• an article suggesting a Federal Circuit case is “set to shape false advertising law.”

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

• an article analyzing “four Federal Circuit decisions reversing or vacating the underlying rulings” in patent cases and “the lessons learned from those decisions”; and
• a webinar discussing whether the patent eligibility doctrine is “in need of reform.”

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights two articles discussing the Federal Circuit’s recent en banc decision changing the court’s interpretation of design patent law’s nonobviousness requirement, along with a memorandum from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office addressing the same decision:

• an article detailing the effects that the Federal Circuit’s decision will have on design patent challenges;
• another article discussing how the new test has created uncertainty over what’s obvious; and
• a memorandum from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office entitled “Updated Guidance and Examination Instructions for Making a Determination of Obviousness in Designs in Light of LKQ Corporation v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC.“