FedCircuitBlog

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.“

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 the Federal Circuit’s biennial judicial conference in which six Federal Circuit judges “appeared on a panel . . . to discuss best-and worst-practices” used by appellate litigators in court; and
• an article discussing implications of the Federal Circuit’s recent elimination of its historical test for design patent law’s nonobviousness requirement; and
• another article reporting on the Federal Circuit’s biennial judicial conference in which Chief Justice Roberts spoke about “the Federal Circuit’s own important role in deciding intellectual property disputes, from copyrights to patents.”

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

• a news release discussing how Federal Circuit Judge Richard Linn has been “selected to receive the prestigious 2024 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Federal Circuit”; and
• an article highlighting a pending case at the Federal Circuit in which the court will review a judgment of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an interference proceeding concerning competing patent applications related to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system.

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

• an article including an interview with Judge Newman as “April 14 marks the one-year anniversary of when the Federal Circuit confirmed an unprecedented investigation into whether U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman was mentally and physically competent to remain on its bench”; and
• an article discussing how “[t]he full Federal Circuit declined a request by one of the court’s judges to reexamine how an employee’s prior salary history factors into the analysis of sex-based unequal pay claims.”