The Federal Circuit reversed the TTAB’s cancellation of Coca-Cola’s U.S. registrations for THUMS UP and LIMCA, holding that a petitioner seeking cancellation under Lanham Act § 14(3) must show actual consumer confusion or misrepresentation affecting the U.S. market — competitive injury a
The Federal Circuit vacated a $2.75 billion patent infringement judgment against Cisco, holding that the trial judge was disqualified from hearing the case after discovering his wife owned Cisco stock — placing the stock into a blind trust did not satisfy the federal recusal statute’s divestiture re
The Federal Circuit held that a patent specification adequately supported a negative claim limitation — “absent an immediately preceding loading dose” — through clinical trial data showing efficacy without a loading dose, sustaining Novartis’s fingolimod patent.
The Federal Circuit addressed trade secret misappropriation claims between competing food processing equipment manufacturers — affirming the district court’s finding that Weber had misappropriated Provisur’s trade secrets through improper acquisition and use of confidential technical inf
The Federal Circuit addressed Teradata’s patent infringement claims against SAP in the context of the broader antitrust and interoperability dispute over enterprise database software, affirming the district court’s rulings on claim construction and damages methodology while the parallel
The Federal Circuit held that the USPTO Commissioner for Patents could constitutionally exercise the Director’s review authority over PTAB decisions during a vacancy, rejecting Arthrex’s Appointments Clause and Federal Vacancies Reform Act challenges.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a $7 million patent infringement damages verdict against Microsoft, holding that claim construction challenges must be preserved in a party’s opening brief to be raised on appeal, and reversed the denial of prejudgment interest as an abuse of discretion.
The Federal Circuit vacated a PTAB final written decision for failing to resolve conflicting expert testimony about whether a third party qualified as a joint inventor of a prior art reference, holding that the Board cannot deem all witnesses credible when their accounts are mutually contradictory.
The Federal Circuit addressed the methodology for determining FRAND royalty rates for standard-essential patents in a dispute between Apple and Ericsson over cellular connectivity patents, reviewing the district court’s FRAND determination and addressing how courts should calculate per-unit ro
The Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB’s finding of non-obviousness, holding that generalized industry skepticism about robotic surgery cannot alone overcome a motivation to combine prior art references — the skepticism must target the specific problem addressed by the claimed invention.