FedCircuitBlog

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.”

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

• an article discussing how the Federal Circuit “upheld a U.S. trade tribunal’s decision that Google’s redesigns of products . . . were sufficient to avoid infringing Sonos’ multi-room wireless audio patents”;
• a blog post highlighting how a Federal Circuit decision “offers the important conclusion that a patentee has no standing to appeal an invalidity holding once the patent expires, absent some showing of likely infringement during the prior six years”; and
• an article about an argument before the Federal Circuit that a “more than $600 million judgment against NortonLifeLock for infringing Columbia University patents. . . is ‘indefensible’ and cannot stand.”

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

• an article discussing how “U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman asked a Washington, D.C., federal court on Friday to reject a bid from her fellow judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to end her lawsuit over their decision to suspend her from the bench”; and
• a similar article about how Judge Newman “argued in her opposition brief that the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act violates the constitution.”

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 the “Federal Circuit was thrown for a loop Wednesday in a case that asked whether the holder of an exclusive patent license could sue for infringement another company that could have acquired a license for the same patent by other means”; and
• an article discussing how the “U.S. Supreme Court . . . dismissed a petition asking the Court to revisit and clarify its seminal holding in Alice v. CLS Bank.”

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 petition requesting the Supreme Court to “weigh in” on the Federal Circuit’s “ruling that created a new standard for how courts should review challenges to design patents”; and
• an article discussing a Federal Circuit opinion that “vacated [a] district court’s final judgment due to an erroneous jury instruction on obviousness.”

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 latest litigant to head to the U.S. Supreme Court with complaints about the Federal Circuit’s practice of issuing one-sentence Rule 36 orders”; and
• an article about the Federal Circuit affirming a judgment that a “patented configuration for a gambling terminal ‘Tic-Tac-Fruit’ game was abstract and thus ineligible for protection.”