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Federal Circuit: On-Sale Bar Still Applies to Secret Use of a Patented Method Under AIA

The Federal Circuit recently affirmed an ITC holding that the AIA’s § 102 on-sale bar applies to the sale of a product made according to a secret process when that sale occurs more than one year before the patent’s effective...more

Make No Mistake: Patentee Held to Terminal Disclaimer that Referenced a Patent Incorrectly Identified by the Patent Office

A court in the Western District of Oklahoma dismissed a complaint as to one of the asserted patents where the patent included a terminal disclaimer stating that the patent would be enforceable only as long as it was co-owned...more

Termination of IPR Proceeding on the Eve of Final Written Decision Dooms Joinder Attempt

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has denied institution and joinder of an inter partes review petition after determining that the petition was not only time-barred but that joinder was also foreclosed. In making its...more

Section 271(e)(1) Safe Harbor Applies to Importation Regardless of Intent or Actual Use

A divided panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment of noninfringement, holding that importation of two product samples into the U.S. was reasonably related to obtaining FDA approval...more

Federal Circuit Holds Post-Invention Funding Agreement Subject to Government Licensing Provision of Bayh-Dole Act

The Federal Circuit held that a subcontractor’s receipt of retroactive payment from a government grant brought the subcontractor’s work under Bayh-Dole even though the work was performed before the contract was entered into....more

PTAB: Digital Repository’s Listed Publication Date Insufficient to Show Reference’s Public Availability

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board denied institution of an inter partes review after determining that petitioner failed to establish public availability of a prior art reference based on an alleged publication date listed in...more

Two Product Market for Bamboo Decking Justifies Jury Award of Lost Profits

The District of Delaware recently held that evidence addressing a lack of non-infringing alternatives from the perspective of the market as a whole, as opposed to customer-by-customer, may suffice when the market includes...more

Federal Circuit: Prior Art Disclosure with Same Specificity as Patent Inherently Anticipates Claims

In a recent appeal from the PTAB, the Federal Circuit held that claims of a patent were inherently anticipated where the patent and prior art incorporated the same reference to describe a process for making the claimed...more

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