The Federal Circuit held that a USPTO Director decision vacating an ex parte reexamination on IPR estoppel grounds is subject to judicial review under the APA, reversing the district court’s dismissal.
The Federal Circuit held that IPR estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(1) applies to invalidity grounds a petitioner could have raised in an earlier-decided IPR, even if that IPR and the later-challenged IPR were filed on the same day — closing the simultaneous-petition loophole.
A divided Federal Circuit affirmed that the patents covering Narcan nasal spray’s naloxone formulation were obvious, finding ample motivation to combine prior art formulations despite secondary considerations including FDA need and commercial success.
The Federal Circuit held that a contractual forum-selection clause requiring all patent disputes to be filed in district court — not the PTAB — barred Sarepta from filing IPR petitions, enforcing private agreements that waive the right to inter partes review.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s rejection of Quanergy’s inter partes review challenge to Velodyne’s foundational 3D LiDAR patent, upholding the patent’s validity as Velodyne survived an attempt to invalidate its core autonomous vehicle sensing technology.
The Federal Circuit affirmed infringement of Caltech’s Wi-Fi error-correction patents but vacated a $1.1 billion damages award against Broadcom and Apple, rejected a novel two-tier royalty model, and clarified that IPR estoppel bars defendants from raising invalidity grounds that reasonably could ha
The Federal Circuit vacated an $85 million jury verdict against Apple, holding that the damages expert failed to apportion the royalty base to account only for the patented features rather than the entire value of the accused LTE-enabled iPhones.
The Federal Circuit held that statements in a patent’s own specification acknowledging known prior art — so-called applicant-admitted prior art (AAPA) — cannot serve as the “basis” for an inter partes review petition under § 311(b), which limits IPR to prior art consisting of patents and printed pub
The Federal Circuit vacated an infringement ruling against Mylan, holding that the patent’s prosecution history and written description limited the claimed PVP concentration in AstraZeneca’s asthma inhaler patent to a precise value rather than a range.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB’s refusal to invalidate Corcept’s mifepristone dosage patent, holding that an IPR petitioner must demonstrate a reasonable expectation of success for the specific dosage claimed — not merely for the drug combination generally.