FedCircuitBlog

This morning the Federal Circuit released three nonprecedential opinions and four nonprecedential orders. The first opinion affirms a judgment of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the second affirms a dismissal by the Court of Federal Claims for lack of jurisdiction, and the third affirms a judgment of the Office of Personnel Management. The first order transfers an appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and all the other orders are dismissals. Here are the introductions to the opinions and the first order and links to the dismissals.

Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:

• an article about how the Federal Circuit’s investigation into Judge Newman’s health “faces an uncertain path . . . since the process is rarely invoked and presents legal questions that haven’t been tested in court”;
• a second article about the standard for inter partes review estoppel;
• a third article about a Delaware court ruling “that a patent covering a way of designing virtual environments reflected ‘a non-abstract technological improvement.’”