The Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s exceptional-case finding and attorney fee award to Nextremity after an IPR invalidated Extremity Medical’s orthopedic implant patent, but denied fees for the IPR proceedings themselves.
In a split decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s finding that most claims of Metrom Rail’s collision-avoidance patents are obvious, and reversed the Board’s ruling that had saved four remaining claims — holding that the Board applied an incorrect claim construction.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the ITC’s finding that Tineco’s redesigned wet-dry vacuum cleaners do not infringe BISSELL’s patents, while also establishing that ITC experts may rely on source code produced in discovery but never formally admitted as a hearing exhibit under FRE 703.
The ITC issued a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Chinese chipmaker Innoscience, finding its GaN semiconductor devices infringe Infineon’s U.S. Patent No. 9,899,481 covering lateral transistor source-sensing designs.
The U.S. International Trade Commission issues exclusion and cease-and-desist orders against Innoscience for infringing Infineon’s gallium nitride power semiconductor patent, blocking imports of the Chinese chipmaker’s GaN products into the United States.
A federal judge dismissed MITII’s patent infringement claims against OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video platform with prejudice, finding that four patents originally developed for autism-therapy technology do not cover OpenAI’s AI-powered video generation system.
The ITC issued a final determination in a GaN semiconductor patent case, finding that Innoscience’s current products do not infringe Infineon’s patents while issuing a limited exclusion order covering only discontinued legacy devices.
The U.S. International Trade Commission ordered import and sales bans on Innoscience’s gallium nitride semiconductor devices after finding infringement of Infineon’s patent covering advanced transistor packaging technology used in AI data centers and electric vehicles.
The ITC’s Full Commission affirmed that Innoscience infringed Infineon’s GaN transistor patent but found that Innoscience’s current redesigned products do not infringe, leaving the import ban with no practical effect on ongoing U.S. sales.
A New Hampshire federal court denied Sig Sauer’s motion for summary judgment of noninfringement in a patent dispute over firearm stabilizing braces, finding genuine factual disputes that must be resolved by a jury.