SNIPR Technologies Ltd v. Rockefeller University -
Before Chen, Wallach, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: Patents whose priority is governed...more
Trinity Info Media, L.L.C. v. Covalent INC.
Before STOLL, BRYSON, and CUNNINGHAM. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Summary: Patents directed to connecting users...more
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. v. AVADEL CNS PHARMACEUTICALS, LLC -
Before Lourie, Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Summary: A patent directed to a system to reduce...more
2/28/2023
/ Food & Drug Regulations ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Jazz Pharmaceuticals ,
Life Sciences ,
Orange Book ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Prescription Drugs
GENENTECH, INC. V. SANDOZ INC.
Before Newman, Lourie, and Prost. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Summary: The district court did not clearly err in considering evidence of...more
ARENDI S.A.R.L. v. LG ELECTRONICS INC. -
Before Prost, Chen, and Stoll. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. -
Summary: Under the duplicative-litigation doctrine, a party cannot maintain two...more
Summary: Courts may use their inherent equitable powers to award attorneys’ fees for bad faith conduct....more
SUNOCO PARTNERS MARKETING v. U.S. VENTURE, INC.
Before Prost, Reyna, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Summary: References to testing in an offer for sale...more
APPLE INC. v. MPH TECHNOLOGIES OY -
Before Moore, Prost, and Taranto. Appeal from Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The proximity of concepts in a claim may link the concepts together and affect the plain meaning...more
BIOGEN INTERNATIONAL GMBH V. MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
Before O’Malley, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
Summary: A specification may not...more
OMEGA PATENTS, LLC v. CALAMP CORPORATION -
Before Prost, Dyk, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Summary: Licensing policies that allow use of any or all of a...more
In Re PERSONALWEB TECHNOLOGIES LLC -
Before Prost, Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the District Court for the Northern District of California.
A patent directed to a medley of mental processes with no inventive concept...more
CANFIELD SCIENTIFIC, INC. v. MELANOSCAN, LLC -
Before Newman, Dyk, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: The PTAB’s refusal to consider presented arguments and evidence can be a...more
SIMIO, LLC V. FLEXSIM SOFTWARE PRODUCTS, INC.
Before Prost, Clevenger, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
Summary: A claim whose only inventive concept is the applications...more
VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS v. MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS -
Before Newman, O’Malley, and Taranto. Appeal from the District Court of New Jersey -
Summary: Venue in Hatch-Waxman cases is proper only in districts where actions...more
11/9/2020
/ Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) ,
Federal Rule 12(b)(6) ,
Foreign Entities ,
Generic Drugs ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Venue
FACEBOOK, INC., V. WINDY CITY INNOVATIONS LLC Before Prost, Plager, and O’Malley. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The Federal Circuit has jurisdiction to review challenges to the Board's joinder...more
Gensetix, Inc. v. Baylor College of Medicine -
Before Newman, O’Malley, and Taranto. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Summary: A state can invoke sovereign immunity under the...more
BIOGEN INTERNATIONAL GMBH v. BANNER LIFE SCIENCES LLC -
Before Lourie, Moore, and Chen. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware -
Summary: If a claimed product is not the active ingredient of...more
ARTHREX, INC. v. SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.
Before Prost, Newman, Lourie, Dyk, Moore, O’Malley, Reyna, Wallach, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, and Stoll. Petition for rehearing en banc of a panel decision of an appeal from the Patent...more
Amgen, Inc. v. Amneal Pharmas. LLC et al -
Before Newman, Lourie, and Taranto. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
Summary: An examiner amendment may give rise to prosecution history...more
1/10/2020
/ Appeals ,
Bench Trial ,
Doctrine of Equivalents ,
Markush Grouping ,
Patent Examinations ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Prosecution ,
Patents ,
Prosecution History Estoppel ,
Reversal
PETER V. NANTKWEST, INC.
Before Sotomayor, Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Kagan, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. Appeal from the Federal Circuit on rehearing en banc.
Summary: A patent applicant appealing an adverse decision...more
OSI PHARMACEUTICALS, LLC v. APOTEX INC -
Before Stoll, Newman, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: A pharmaceutical company’s statement touting the completion of Phase I safety trials...more
10/9/2019
/ Clinical Trials ,
FDA Approval ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Reasonable Expectations Test
CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. v. TQ DELTA, LLC -
Before Newman, Linn, and Wallach. Appeal from Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: It is improper to read limitations from a preferred embodiment described in the specification...more
GAME AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. v. ACTIVISION BLIZZARD INC.
Before Prost, Lourie, and Wallach. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
Summary: A single prior art reference can render a patent obvious if it...more
Federal Circuit Summary -
Before Lourie, O’Malley, and Stoll. Appeal from District of Delaware.
Summary: Under step one of Alice, a claim is not directed to an abstract idea when it recites a specific technique to...more
3/26/2019
/ Abstract Ideas ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Computer-Related Inventions ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Section 101 ,
Software Developers ,
Software Patents ,
Willful Infringement
Federal Circuit Summaries -
Before Lourie, Linn, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Summary: Reading a process limitation into a product claim is improper where the...more
2/14/2019
/ Appeals ,
Claim Construction ,
Indefiniteness ,
Intel ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Remand ,
Reversible Error ,
Scope of the Claim ,
Vacated ,
Written Descriptions