FedCircuitBlog

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.

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

• an article discussing a recent decision by the Federal Circuit addressing estoppel in inter partes review proceedings; and
• a blog post highlighting a view that the Federal Circuit has taken a “new approach to venue transfer petitions” in patent cases.

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

• an article examining the Federal Circuit’s consideration of when attorney’s fees can be awarded to the prevailing party in in inter partes review proceedings; and
• an article discussing a distinction made by the Federal Circuit pertaining to which disclosures qualify as public disclosures for purposes of 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)(2)(B).

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.