The Federal Circuit granted Google’s writ of mandamus and held that cache servers leased inside third-party ISP facilities do not create a “regular and established place of business” for patent venue purposes unless an employee or agent of the defendant is conducting business there.
The Federal Circuit held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board cannot cancel patent claims as indefinite in inter partes review proceedings, since the IPR statute limits the Board to invalidity grounds based on prior art under Sections 102 and 103.
The Federal Circuit held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board exceeded its authority by instituting inter partes review on an obviousness ground that was not raised in the petition, violating the statutory requirement that the Board limit its review to grounds asserted by the petitioner.
The Federal Circuit reversed a PTAB obviousness ruling, holding that a patentee cannot presume a nexus between commercial success and a patent when the successful product contains significant features not covered by the patent claims.
The Federal Circuit vacated a bench-determined FRAND royalty award, holding that a standard-essential patent holder is constitutionally entitled to a jury trial on “release payments” for an implementer’s past unlicensed use of the patented technology.
The Federal Circuit affirmed invalidity of Idenix’s broad nucleoside compound patent for lack of enablement and written description, ruling that a claim covering a vast genus of chemical compounds is invalid when the specification does not teach how to make most of them.
The Federal Circuit held that patent claims directed to manufacturing driveshaft liners that “attenuate” vibrations were invalid under § 101 because they were simply an instruction to apply Hooke’s law — a natural law — without specifying how to do so, triggering a sharp dissent warning of § 101 ove
The Federal Circuit vacated a $145 million patent damages award against Apple, holding that Wi-LAN’s expert improperly used entire smartphone sales as the royalty base for cellular standard-essential patents — applying the entire market value rule without adequate apportionment to the patented
The Federal Circuit invalidated garage door opener patents covering a wireless sensor system for communicating door state, holding the claims were directed to the abstract idea of wirelessly communicating status information — an idea that cannot be its own inventive concept.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that patents covering the Contrave weight loss drug were obvious, rejecting arguments that unexpected synergistic effects between bupropion and naltrexone saved the claims from invalidity.