The Federal Circuit held that the USPTO cannot reduce patent term adjustment by a period during which the applicant could not have taken any action to advance prosecution, limiting PTA deductions to periods of actual applicant delay.
The Federal Circuit held that Trading Technologies’ patents on a graphical user interface for electronic futures trading were patent-ineligible abstract ideas under Alice — finding that displaying market data and allowing traders to place orders by clicking on a price ladder represented an abs
The Federal Circuit held that the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting cannot be used to cut short a patent term extension lawfully granted by statute, affirming Novartis’s extended patent protection for its multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya.
The Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal and held that a patent claiming a method of preventing computers from running unlicensed software by using the BIOS to store a license verification key is not an abstract idea—it claims a concrete improvement to computer security functionalit
The Federal Circuit reversed invalidation of tabbed-spreadsheet navigation patents, holding that claims covering a specific, novel user interface for navigating large spreadsheets are not directed to an abstract idea.
The Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s summary judgment finding written description inadequacy for Nevro’s spinal cord stimulation patents, holding that the specification’s disclosure of the claimed frequency ranges combined with paresthesia-free stimulation raised genuine
The Federal Circuit vacated a $140 million patent damages award, holding that the entire market value rule cannot be used to calculate damages when accused products have valuable features beyond the patented invention.
The Federal Circuit held that a company that had built a manufacturing facility and planned commercial activity within the scope of a challenged patent had Article III standing to appeal an adverse IPR decision, even without being accused of infringement.
Sitting en banc, the Federal Circuit held that the IPR one-year time bar under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b) is triggered when a defendant is served with a patent infringement complaint, even if that complaint is later voluntarily dismissed without prejudice.
The Federal Circuit dismissed an IPR petitioner’s appeal for lack of Article III standing, holding that a party must show concrete plans for activity creating a substantial risk of infringement — not just status as a competitor — to have standing to challenge an adverse PTAB decision in court.