The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement because Biofer’s patent requires maintaining a pH between 7.0 and 9.0 throughout the claimed sugar-oxidation step.
The Federal Circuit affirmed three groups of PTAB decisions invalidating Netlist computer-memory patent claims as obvious.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that patent claims covering one-drop vitamin D delivery to infants were obvious over prior methods.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB ruling that preserved claims 1–13 but invalidated claims 14–18 of SpaceTime3D’s 3D webpage-interface patent.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions invalidating all challenged claims of two SpaceTime3D graphical-interface patents as obvious.
The Federal Circuit upheld written-description support for three Cabometyx patents while dismissing as moot and vacating a ruling on a fourth patent claim.
The Federal Circuit affirmed Samsung’s complete defense win, including a no-infringement verdict and a ruling that Qualcomm-chip devices remained licensed.
The Federal Circuit held that a district court may decide patent eligibility after finding venue improper when both dismissal grounds were fully presented.
The Federal Circuit upheld key Smart Mobile wireless-patent claims and sent other claims back because the PTAB did not address evidence that Apple’s proposed prior-art combination would create a data bottleneck.
The Federal Circuit vacated part of a PTAB obviousness ruling because the patent’s provisioning and activation terms require adding a new service, not managing an existing one.
A Delaware federal court held that Lupin’s roughly 74% ivacaftor generic does not infringe Vertex patent claims requiring 80% or about 80% ivacaftor.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions invalidating claims from three single-cell nucleic-acid analysis patents as obvious over combined prior art.
The Federal Circuit held that a non-practicing patent owner must plausibly allege its licensees complied with patent-marking rules to seek pre-suit damages, and upheld an exceptional-case fee award.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions preserving Westport’s fuel-injector patent claims because substantial evidence showed the prior art’s flexible membrane did not disclose the claimed solid-like hydraulic link.
The Federal Circuit upheld a PTAB obviousness ruling, finding facial-analysis research reasonably pertinent to Nielsen’s audience-measurement image claims.
An Eastern District of New York claim-construction order defined disputed mobile edge-device, bounding-box, Docker-container, and deep-learning limitations in Hayden AI’s traffic-enforcement patents.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that all 24 claims of a multimedia content-flow patent were unpatentable as obvious over prior art.
The Federal Circuit vacated a PTAB obviousness ruling because an AIA reference needs written-description support for at least one published claim to claim its provisional filing date.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that an earlier streaming-media patent anticipated WAG Acquisition’s buffering claims.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that a crossbow patent claim was anticipated after construing “mounted to” to include direct and indirect connections bounded by the claim’s other limitations.
The USPTO Appeals Review Panel reinstated all OTDP rejections, holding that Federal Circuit precedent makes the anti-harassment rationale independently sufficient even without patent-term extension.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB decision finding Nike fitness-watch patent claims anticipated or obvious because the prior art supported the Board’s broad reading of fitness level and its combinations.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement because the claimed dissolving agent had to dissolve lidocaine as well as keep it from crystallizing.
The Federal Circuit vacated a patent preliminary injunction because the district court misconstrued “backplate” and “pin” and could not presume irreparable harm.