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Opinions & Orders – November 18, 2024

This morning the Federal Circuit released one precedential opinion, one nonprecedential opinion, and three nonprecedential orders. The precedential opinion vacates and remands a decision of the Court of Federal Claims in a veterans case. The nonprecedential opinion affirms a decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which denied a corrective action in an individual right of action appeal. The first order grants a motion seeking transfer to the Western District of Texas. The last two orders were both dismissals. Here are the introductions to the opinions and first order, as well as links to the dismissals.

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Opinions & Orders – August 21, 2024

This morning the Federal Circuit released one nonprecedential opinion and nine nonprecedential orders. The opinion upheld a decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board. Notably, one of the orders denies a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to order the Western District of Texas to transfer a patent case to the Northern District of California. Here are the introductions to the opinions and orders.

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Opinions & Orders – August 19, 2024

This morning the Federal Circuit released six nonprecedential orders, all of which were dismissals. Here are links to these orders.

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Opinions & Orders – February 22, 2024

This morning, the Federal Circuit released one nonprecedential opinion and six nonprecedential orders. The opinion affirms judgments of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in two inter partes review proceedings. The orders dismiss appeals. Here are the introduction to the opinion and text from the orders.

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Opinions & Orders – October 27, 2023

This morning, the Federal Circuit released four nonprecedential orders. One order summarily affirmed a judgment of the Court of Federal Claims; one order denied a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to vacate an order transferring a patent case from the Northern District of Illinois to the Eastern District of Texas; and two orders dismissed appeals. Here is selected text from the summary affirmance and denial of the petition and links to the dismissals.

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Opinions & Orders – December 28, 2022

This morning the Federal Circuit released a nonprecedential opinion dismissing a case for lack of a timely notice of appeal, a nonprecedential order reviewing a sanction of counsel, a nonprecedential order summarily affirming a judgment of the Court of Federal Claims, and a summary affirmance.

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Opinions & Orders – December 14, 2022

Today the Federal Circuit released three nonprecedential orders. One summarily affirms and two dismiss appeals. Here is text from the order summarily affirming and links to the dismissals.

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Opinions & Orders – October 21, 2022

This morning the Federal Circuit released two nonprecedential orders dismissing appeals. Here are links to the dismissals.

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Opinions & Orders – October 18, 2022

This morning the Federal Circuit released three nonprecedential orders. One grants a motion to dismiss an appeal for lack of jurisdiction; one dismisses an appeal for failure to prosecute; and one transfers an appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Here is the text from the order and links to the dismissals.  

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Opinions & Orders – June 13, 2022

This morning the Federal Circuit released a precedential opinion in a patent case appealed from the District of Delaware. The Federal Circuit also released two nonprecedential opinions. The first comes in a veterans case appealed from the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; the second comes in another patent case appealed from the Eastern District of Virginia. Finally, the Federal Circuit released two Rule 36 judgments. Here are the introductions to the opinions and links to the Rule 36 judgments.

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