The Federal Circuit vacated a patent preliminary injunction because the district court misconstrued “backplate” and “pin” and could not presume irreparable harm.
The Federal Circuit revived MPH Technologies’ mobile-security patent case, holding that the asserted claims were not limited to IPSec and that a challenged secure-connection limitation was not indefinite.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement because Leica’s microscopes use selected wavelengths rather than the claimed entire spectrum of white light.
The Federal Circuit held that substantial evidence supported the PTAB’s finding that Pfizer’s proposed vaccine claims would have been obvious.
The Federal Circuit held that measurable claim distances were not indefinite merely because the patent might not teach every design choice needed to build an operable magazine.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB ruling that an earlier wireless-communications patent anticipated G+’s challenged 5G signal-transmission claims.
The Federal Circuit reversed a patent verdict because prior art anticipated the asserted claims and the accused stent coating was not the claimed thread-like fiber.
The Federal Circuit upheld the PTAB’s obviousness ruling and denial of substitute claims for a railcar anomaly-monitoring patent.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that challenged inkjet-printhead patent claims were obvious over a combination of prior-art references.
The Federal Circuit vacated PTAB rulings because the Board required a skilled artisan personally to fabricate a claimed integrated circuit.
The Federal Circuit affirmed because an IPR petition’s headings did not substitute for developed obviousness arguments for each challenged claim.
The Federal Circuit vacated noninfringement summary judgment because ambiguous prosecution statements were not a clear disclaimer.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB obviousness rulings based on archived evidence of an arXiv publication and qualified machine-learning testimony.
Federal Circuit affirms PTAB finding that claims in Woodway’s curved-running-belt manual treadmill patent are obvious over 1970s–1990s prior art, rejecting narrow claim construction and commercial success arguments.
The Supreme Court of Canada rules 7-2 that methods of medical treatment remain unpatentable in Canada, but upholds Janssen’s dosing-regimen patent for INVEGA SUSTENNA because the specific schedule does not require professional medical judgment to implement.
A federal jury in Waco, Texas awards Viasat $229 million in damages after finding Kioxia’s NAND flash memory products infringed U.S. Patent No. 8,615,700, covering forward error correction with parallel detection for flash memories.
The Federal Circuit affirmed two PTAB inter partes review decisions invalidating all claims of Slingshot Printing’s inkjet-printer temperature-sensor patents as obvious over a combination of prior art references.
The ITC institutes Investigation No. 337-TA-1511 against Samsung, Google, NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Supermicro based on Netlist’s HBM and DDR5 memory patents, seeking exclusion orders that could disrupt AI hardware supply chains.
The Second Circuit affirmed an arbitral award giving Acorda only $16.5M of the ~$82M in post-expiration royalties it paid on an Ampyra MS drug patent, holding Brulotte/Kimble do not mandate full restitution and that New York’s Voluntary-Pay Doctrine bars recovery of royalties paid without contempora
The Federal Circuit affirmed three PTAB decisions preserving CPC Patent Technologies’ biometric smart-lock patents, holding that ASSA ABLOY failed to prove obviousness under its own proposed claim construction and forfeited a Bianco-only invalidity theory by raising it too late.
The Federal Circuit vacated a PTAB decision upholding Parus Holdings’ voice-browsing patent against Google’s IPR challenge, holding that the Board improperly analyzed prior art in isolation rather than in combination, secretly construed a claim term without notice to Google, and failed t
The Federal Circuit reversed a preliminary injunction in a patent dispute over insulated truck cargo doors, holding that the accused ‘sandwich’ panel door raised substantial questions of non-infringement under three separate claim limitations and that the patentee failed to show irrepara
A Western District of Texas judge ruled that LzLabs GmbH’s Software Defined Mainframe technology infringes five IBM patents covering mainframe instruction translation and emulation techniques, handing IBM a significant win in its effort to protect the proprietary architecture underpinning its multi-
A Northern District of California judge awarded Netflix $3 million in attorney fees after finding that plaintiff Lauri Valjakka and his counsel committed fraud by asserting ownership of U.S. Patent No. 8,495,167 while concealing a Finnish court’s prior determination that Valjakka did not own the pat