Biofer v. Vifor — Federal Circuit Requires the Claimed pH Range Throughout the Reaction
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 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.