FedCircuitBlog

Here is an update on recent en banc activity at the Federal Circuit in patent cases. Since our last update, two new petitions for en banc rehearing have been filed raising questions related to damages and the Administrative Procedure Act. One new response was filed in a case raising a question related to appellate procedure. One new amicus brief was filed in a case raising questions related to enablement and written description. Finally, one petition was denied in a case raising a question related to inventorship. Here are the details.

Here is an update on recent en banc activity at the Federal Circuit in patent cases. Since our last update, three new petitions for en banc rehearing have been filed raising questions related to appellate procedure and the non-obviousness requirement. Also one new response brief responds to a petition raising a question related to damages. Here are the details. 

This morning, the Federal Circuit released one nonprecedential opinion and one nonprecedential order. The opinion comes in a patent case appealed from the District of Utah. The nonprecedential order remands a case to the Merit Systems Protection Board. Here are the introductions to the opinion and the order.