The Federal Circuit held that Microsoft Word metadata can independently corroborate an inventor’s testimony and upheld Valtrus’s earlier conception and diligence showing.
The Federal Circuit held that a patent covering remote diagnosis and treatment used generic devices to perform an abstract version of an ordinary doctor visit and lacked an inventive concept.
The Federal Circuit held that patent claims for repositioning and enforcing digital advertisements recited an abstract data-handling idea implemented with conventional computer components.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s anticipation and obviousness rulings against UPL’s fungicide patent and upheld denial of Syngenta’s proposed sanctions motion.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the rejection of a mobile-messaging patent application because the applicant failed to preserve substantive challenges to the examiner’s and PTAB’s indefiniteness rulings.
The Federal Circuit broadened the ordinary meaning of “joined,” ordered partial summary judgment of infringement on three powered cover-plate patent claims, and affirmed noninfringement on others.
The Federal Circuit held that a live patent-case indemnification dispute was not moot and qualified for Rule 60(b)(1) relief, while directing dismissal without prejudice after the parties agreed federal supplemental jurisdiction should end.
The Federal Circuit held that later experimental data may show whether a patent enabled its full scope and affirmed the invalidation of an enormous enzyme genus.
The Federal Circuit affirmed judgment against Truinject because its lost-deal damages theory lacked causation and its new appellate theories were forfeited.
The Federal Circuit held that a scientifically impossible claim can be definite yet invalid because the patent cannot enable its full scope.
The Federal Circuit dismissed ParkerVision’s appeal because unresolved claims from the same patent prevented a final, appealable judgment.
The Federal Circuit required a fuller sanctions analysis where multiple pre-suit signals raised serious questions about software-patent eligibility.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that inadequate written-description support broke priority and made the inventor’s earlier publication invalidating prior art.
The Federal Circuit held that new claims and repackaged arguments did not satisfy the rule for reopening prosecution after a new Board rejection.
The Federal Circuit held that patents combining user history, page context, and ad-performance data claimed an abstract targeted-advertising idea without an inventive concept.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that prior-art codewords qualified as claimed feature vectors, leaving all challenged speech-recognition patent claims unpatentable for obviousness.
The Federal Circuit held object-level profitability claims ineligible because their asserted parallel-processing improvement was not required by the claims.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a $3.24 million patent-case fee and expense award based on objectively baseless and bad-faith litigation conduct.
The Federal Circuit vacated a catheter-patent obviousness rejection because the PTAB construed “flow barrier” more broadly than the specification allowed.
The Federal Circuit held that TexasLDPC received all substantial patent rights, its enforcement-only business model did not terminate the license, and Texas A&M was not a required party.
The Federal Circuit vacated NCS Multistage’s infringement, validity, and damages judgments after correcting the construction of “casing string” and holding an earlier commercial tool was prior art.
The Federal Circuit preserved NCS Multistage’s contributory-infringement win against TCO but vacated the no-invalidity judgment under the corrected construction of “casing string.”
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement, holding that “universal” spinal-implant preambles limit two patent claims and that substantial evidence supported the jury on a third.
A divided Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement after construing a “cooperating service provider” as one that agrees to supply non-blocking bandwidth.