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Recent News on the Federal Circuit

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today we highlight:

  • an article discussing how the Federal Circuit recently issued an opinion “affirming a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that granted Google LLC and YouTube LLC judgment on the pleadings on patent ineligibility grounds”;
  • an article reporting how the Federal Circuit recently held that the “Patent Trial and Appeal Board was right to fully invalidate a speech recognition patent that Apple stands accused of infringing”;
  • an article noting how the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal because “the 30-day deadline of 28 U.S.C. ยง 2107(a) for filing a notice of appeal is ‘mandatory and jurisdictional’ with no equitable exceptions”; and
  • an article highlighting how the Federal Circuit recently “reversed the Merit Systems Protection Board’s dismissal” of a Presidential Innovation Fellow’s “whistleblower appeal . . . , finding he had made sufficient allegations of gross mismanagement to establish jurisdiction.”
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Opinions

Opinions & Orders โ€“ September 22, 2026

This morning, the Federal Circuit released one precedential opinion and four nonprecedential orders. The opinion comes in a case appealed from the Merit Systems Protection Board. As for the orders, one concerns a petition for a writ of mandamus to the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, two are summary affirmances of decisions of the Court of Federal Claims, and the other transfers a case to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Here are the introductions.

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