FedCircuitBlog

Here is an update on recent activity at the Supreme Court in cases decided by the Federal Circuit. With respect to granted cases, there is no activity to report. With respect to petitions cases, one new petition was filed in a case presenting a question related to importation patent infringement and copyright infringement, and three amicus briefs were filed in support of a petition raising questions related to trade and procedural law. Additionally, the Supreme Court denied five petitions related to patent eligibility and veterans law. Here are the details.

Here is an update on recent activity at the Supreme Court in cases decided by the Federal Circuit. There is no news to report on granted cases and no new petitions were filed. However, four new reply briefs in support of petitions were filed, and the Supreme Court did deny four previously-filed petitions. Here are the details.

Here is an update on recent activity at the Supreme Court in cases decided by the Federal Circuit. Highlights include a granted application to stay the Federal Circuit’s mandate to allow the prospective petitioner to challenge the Federal Circuit’s conclusion that it had waived the argument that succeeded in Arthrex, two new petitions including one related to the exhaustion doctrine and design patents, and several responses to petitions. Here are the details.

Here is an update on recent activity at the Supreme Court in cases decided by the Federal Circuit. In granted cases, various briefs were filed in Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc. and Thryv, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP. In addition, one new pro se petition was filed, along with two new amicus briefs in other cases. Here are the details.

Here is an update on recent activity at the Supreme Court in cases decided by the Federal Circuit. This week six new petitions were filed, along with a response to a petition and a reply in support of a petition. The Court denied one petition. Here are the details.

Today the Federal Circuit sua sponte granted en banc rehearing in a veterans case, Francway v. Wilkie. Beyond granting rehearing, the en banc court also withdrew a previously issued precedential opinion in this case and issued a new precedential opinion replacing it.

In the new opinion, the en banc court responded to the argument that the “presumption of competency” used in reviewing the opinions of Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) medical examiners conflicts with the VA’s statutory duty to assist veterans and the statutory benefit-of-the-doubt rule used in veterans cases when the evidence is in approximate equipoise.

The en banc court overruled its caselaw to the extent that caselaw is inconsistent with merely requiring veterans to raise the issue of the competency of medical examiners, and it noted that “the requirement that the veteran raise the issue of the competency of the medical examiner is best referred to simply as a ‘requirement’ and not a ‘presumption of competency.’”

Today the Federal Circuit issued one precedential opinion in a veterans case, two nonprecedential opinions in patent cases, one nonprecedential order in a veterans case, and one erratum. Here are the introductions to the opinions.