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Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Conclusory Expert Testimony Insufficient to Support Entire Market Value Rule for One Small Component...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - PROVISUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. WEBER, INC. [OPINION] (23-1438, 10/2/24) (Moore, Taranto, Cecchi) - Moore, J. The Court reversed the denial of judgment as a matter of law...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: The Party Presentation Rule: Parties Map the Course of Litigation, Not Judges

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  ASTELLAS PHARMA v. SANDOZ INC. [OPINION] (2023-2032, 2023-2063, 2023-2089, 9/18/24) (Lourie, Prost, Reyna) - Lourie, J. The Court vacated and remanded the district...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: An Expert Need Not Have Acquired the Requisite Skill Level Prior to the Time of the Invention

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION v. APPLE INC. [OPINION] (2022-1884, 8/28/2024) (Prost, Taranto, and Chen) - Prost, J. The Court affirmed two final judgments of the...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Arguments Not Presented in PTAB Request for Rehearing Are Not Necessarily Forfeited on Appeal

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - SANHO CORP. v. KAIJET TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, INC. [OPINION] (2023-1336, 7/31/24) (Dyk, Clevenger, Stoll) - Dyk, J. The Court affirmed the Board’s decision...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Federal Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction Related to Tumor-Informed Testing

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  NATERA, INC. v. NEOGENOMICS LABORATORIES, INC. [OPINION] (2024-1324, 2024-1409, 7/12/2024) - Moore, Taranto, and Chen Moore, C.J. The Court affirmed the district...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Allegations of induced infringement can be based on skinny label in combination with public...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - BETEIRO, LLC v. DRAFTKINGS INC. [OPINION] (2022-2275, 06/21/2024) (Dyk, Prost, Stark) - Stark, J. The Court affirmed the district court’s dismissal of multiple, related...more

Federal Circuit Overrules Rosen-Durling Test for Design Patent Obviousness as “Improperly Rigid”

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - LKQ CORPORATION v. GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC [OPINION] (2021-2348, 5/21/24) Moore, Lourie, Dyk, Prost, Reyna, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, Stoll, and Stark - Stoll,...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Section 285 Does Not Extend to Recovery of IPR Fees

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  ZIRCON CORP. v. ITC (2022-1649, 05/08/2024) (Lourie, Bryson, and Stark) - Bryson, J. The Court affirmed the Commission’s determination regarding the domestic...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Printed Matter Doctrine Applies to Communicative Content, Not All Communications

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  IOENGINE, LLC V. VIDAL (21-1227 Lourie, Chen, Stoll) - Chen, J.  The Court reversed in part and affirmed in part the Final Written Decisions of the Patent Trial and...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: District Court’s “Seemingly Siloed and Inflexible Approach” to Obviousness “Ran Afoul” of KSR

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. v. TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1258, 2022-1307, 4/1/2024) (Dyk, Prost, and Hughes) - Prost, J. The Court affirmed...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Prosecuting Attorney’s Knowledge of Abandonment Does Not Mean Patentee's Abandonment is Intentional

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  FRESHUB, INC. v. AMAZON.COM, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1391, 2/26/2024) (Reyna, Taranto, and Chen) - Taranto, J. The Court affirmed the District Court’s decision 1)...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Sanctions “will likely result” if a party “incorporate[s] by reference arguments into one brief from...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - PROMPTU SYSTEMS CORPORATION v. COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC [OPINION] (2022-1093, 2/16/2024) (Moore, Prost, and Taranto) - Per Curiam. The Court sua sponte issued...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Raising a new prior art reference in an IPR as a joined petitioner

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - CYWEE GROUP LTD. v. ZTE (USA) INC., LG ELECTRONICS INC. [OPINION] (2021-1855, 1/18/2023) (Prost, Hughes, and Stoll) - Prost, J. The Court affirmed the Patent Trial and...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: A comparative statement in a patent specification can be “definitional” for purposes of claim...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  PARKERVISION, INC. v. VIDAL [OPINION] (2022-1548, 12/15/2023) (Prost, Wallach, and Chen)* - Chen, J. The Court affirmed the PTAB’s determination that the patent...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Nearly $2.2 Billion Damages Award Vacated

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  VLSI TECHNOLOGY LLC, v. INTEL CORPORATION [OPINION] (2022-1906, 12/04/2023) (Lourie, Dyk, Taranto) - Taranto, J. The Court reversed the judgment of infringement on...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Avoid fighting with the courts and administrative agencies

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1.  PURDUE PHARMA LP v. COLLEGIUM PHARMACEUTICAL, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1482, 11/21/2023) (Dyk, Hughes, and Stoll) - Dyk, J. The Court affirmed the Patent Trial and...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Federal Circuit rejects invitation to create a bright-line rule regarding whether numerical ranges...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - MALVERN PANALYTICAL INC. v. TA INSTRUMENTS-WATERS LLC [OPINION] (2022-1439, 11/1/2023) (Prost, Hughes, and Cunningham) - Prost, J. The Court vacated the district court’s...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: The Board should not have to decode a petition

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - CYNTEC COMPANY, LTD. v. CHILISIN ELECTRONICS CORP., CHILISIN AMERICA LTD. [OPINION] (2022-1873, 10/16/23) (Moore, Stoll, Cunningham) - Stoll, J. The Court reversed the...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: “The” Computer Means the Same Computer

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. FINJAN LLC V. SONICWALL, INC [OPINION] (22-1048, 10/13/2023) (Reyna, Bryson, and Cunningham) - Cunningham, J. The Court vacated the district court’s judgment of...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: PTAB may make implicit finding of reasonable expectation of success if arguments are intertwined...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - BAXALTA INCOPORPORATED v. GENENTECH, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1461, 9/20/2023) (Moore, Clevenger, and Chen) - Moore, C.J. The Court affirmed a district court’s grant of...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: For design patent infringement analysis, comparison prior art must be tied to same article of...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - NETFLIX, INC. v. DIVX, LLC [OPINION] (2022-1138, 9/11/2023) (Hughes, Stoll, and Stark) - Stoll, J. The Court vacated the Board’s finding that an asserted prior art...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Patent owner’s rights and arguments, like wakesurfing, must be fair and balanced

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - VOLVO PENTA v. BRUNSWICK CORP. [OPINION] (2022-1765, 8/24/2023) (Moore, Lourie, and Cunningham) - Moore, Chief J. The Court vacated and remanded the Patent Trial and...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: IPR petitioner must be given opportunity to respond to new claim construction arguments by patent...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - AXONICS, INC. v. MEDTRONIC, INC. [OPINION] (2022-1532, 2022-1533, 8/7/2023) (Lourie, Dyk, and Taranto) - Dyk, J. The Court vacated and remanded IPR decisions by the PTAB...more

Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Pending, non-final litigation or IPR decision does not negate intent to infringe that is otherwise...

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION v. LIQUIDIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. [OPINION] (22-2217, 7/24/23) (Lourie, Dyk, and Stoll) - Lourie, J. The Court affirmed the district...more

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