Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today we highlight:
- a blog post suggesting a recent Federal Circuit “decision is important because it overturns USPTO policy implementing” the America Invents Act and, “ultimately, . . . gives patent owners a new way to knock out references that reach back to a priority filing date”;
- a blog post contemplating how the “absence of a presumption of irreparable harm” in a recent Federal Circuit decision “remains a fraught issue”;
- a blog post reporting that “[f]ormer Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Coke Morgan Stewart, has joined the Council for Innovation Promotion as President and CEO;” and
- an article arguing that President “Trump’s resistance to judicial review goes beyond criticizing the reasoning or conclusions of judges who rule against him.”