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

• an article highlighting how the Federal Circuit judges investigating Judge Newman’s fitness asked “a Washington, D.C. federal court late on Friday to dismiss Newman’s lawsuit challenging the unusual probe”;
• an article discussing the argument by the special committee investigating Judge Newman that “the internal actions of the three-judge special committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit aren’t subject to judicial review”;
• an analysis of pending legislation entitled the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, which according to former Federal Circuit Chief Judge Paul Michel “would overturn Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions that scrambled settled law, excluding many worthy classes of inventions, such as medical diagnostic methods and advanced computer applications”; and
• a blog post taking the position “that gen-AI tools will face high patent eligibility obstacles absent inclusion of strong technical implementation details placed at least within the specification, but more likely within the claims themselves.”

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

• an article discussing different groups who “weighed in at the Federal Circuit on a legal campaign coming from a rival of General Motors that aims to change how courts make decisions about design patents”; and
• an article highlighting a Federal Circuit decision “regarding how Patent Term Adjustment interacts with terminal disclaimers and obviousness-type double patenting.”

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 impact of a Federal Circuit decision on “patent applicants and owners seeking to overcome obviousness challenges”;
• an article discussing a Federal Circuit decision in a list of upcoming Supreme Court cases; and
• an article about historic women on the federal bench, including Federal Circuit Judge Tiffany Cunningham.

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 importance of training federal judges to manage their law clerks;
• an article highlighting the potential for the Federal Circuit to shape patent law in a pending appeal at the Federal Circuit; and
• an article considering the impact of a recent decision of the Federal Circuit on government contract cases.

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 recently published transcript from Judge Newman’s hearing to determine whether Newman was “justified in not complying with an investigative committee’s request for medical records”;
• an article discussing a failed mediation between Judge Newman and her “judicial colleagues on the Federal Circuit”; and
• an article highlighting a recent opinion from the Federal Circuit affirming a patent tribunal’s finding of invalidity for two cancer treatment patents.

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

• a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal by Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones defending Judge Newman;
• an article describing Judge Jones’s letter in defense of Judge Newman and Judge Jones’s relevant experience; and
• an article discussing a recent Federal Circuit decision that ended over a decade of patent infringement litigation.

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

• an article discussing oral arguments at the Federal Circuit in three appeals between Masimo Corp. and Apple Inc. involving “a series of Patent Trial and Appeal Board rulings that inventions described in Masimo’s patents were obvious and therefore unpatentable”;
• an article about how LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Tech. Operations holds the potential to make changes to the longstanding test for design patent obviousness; and
• an article analyzing the potential impact of a former soldier’s argument that the “U.S. Supreme Court [should] reverse a Federal Circuit decision that he claimed wrongly reduced his access to increased benefits Congress granted to wartime veterans.”

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

• an article covering reactions to the recent recommendation by a special committee of Federal Circuit judges that “Judge Pauline Newman should be disciplined for refusing to comply with orders related to an investigation into her ability to perform her duties”;
• a blog post providing an update on the special committee’s recommendation; and
• an article about how Apple has argued to the Federal Circuit that the “U.S. International Trade Commission’s holding that Apple Watch imports should be banned for infringing another company’s patents risks turning the agency into a standard patent litigation forum, rather than one meant to rein in harmful trade practices.”

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

• an article about how a recent Federal Circuit investigative panel report found that Judge Newman “has committed ‘serious misconduct’”;
• an article about how a “special committee of Federal Circuit judges voted to sanction 96-year-old Judge Pauline Newman of the appeals court, over her refusal to cooperate with an investigation into her mental fitness”; and
• an article discussing “the top copyright and trademark cases to keep an eye on in the second half of 2023.”

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 how, “as of today, . . . no transcript has been made available” from the July 13 hearing from the ongoing investigation into Judge Newman’s fitness to serve as a judge;
• an article discussing how the Federal Circuit may be “on the verge of upending [the] harmonious co-existence between design patents and utility patents”; and
• a blog post about a recently-decided case we have been following because it attracted an amicus brief and its impact on the Federal Circuit’s appellate jurisdiction.