The Federal Circuit upheld attorneys’ fee awards against PersonalWeb, affirming that the Kessler doctrine barred it from suing Amazon’s customers after PersonalWeb had stipulated to dismissal with prejudice of its earlier case against Amazon itself.
In a split decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB’s patentability finding for DivX’s media streaming patents, holding that Netflix forfeited its arguments by failing to present them with sufficient clarity in the IPR petition.
The Federal Circuit reversed the TTAB’s cancellation of Great Concepts’ DANTANNA’S restaurant trademark, holding that filing a fraudulent Section 15 incontestability declaration does not give the Board authority to cancel the underlying registration — fraud after registration has l
The Federal Circuit vacated a multi-million dollar patent damages award against Chilisin Electronics, holding that the district court abused its discretion by admitting a damages expert opinion that failed to differentiate between infringing and non-infringing products in the royalty base calculatio
The Federal Circuit partially affirmed and partially vacated PTAB’s obviousness rulings on Corephotonics dual-aperture camera patents, holding that one prior art reference was analogous on substantial evidence but remanding for the Board to explain whether a second reference meets the analogou
The Federal Circuit vacated an invalidity judgment against Finjan’s cybersecurity patents that had been based on collateral estoppel from a since-vacated case, while affirming non-infringement on claim construction grounds and excluding Finjan’s damages expert for inadequate apportionmen
The Federal Circuit held that the PTAB erred in categorically excluding expert testimony on the structure of computer-implemented means-plus-function claim limitations when the specification identifies named software protocols, clarifying a two-track framework for evaluating such claims.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB’s obviousness finding for radiosurgery patents, clarifying that a reasonable expectation of success does not require an explicit separate finding and may be implicit in a well-supported motivation-to-combine analysis.
In a precedent-setting design patent case, the Federal Circuit held that comparison prior art used to defend against infringement must be drawn from the same article of manufacture claimed in the design patent — prior art from a different type of product cannot be used to confuse the ordinary observ
The Federal Circuit held that the PTAB applied an unduly strict standard when it rejected Netflix’s analogous art argument in an IPR, ruling that petitioners need not perfectly articulate the ‘field of endeavor’ in magic words—what matters is whether the prior art reference and the