CannabIP: U.S. Patent No. 9,894,936 B2
U.S. Patent No. 9,894,936 B2 issued on February 20, 2018, for “Zoned Vaporizer,” to Mark Krietzman. The claims are directed to vape apparatuses, one a full system and the other a portable device....
SCOTUS Watch: No PTAB Partial Review of Claims
In the second of two patent decisions handed down by the United States Supreme Court on April 24, 2018, SAS Inst. Inc. v. Iancu was the less visible of the two cases. However, SAS’s close split...
Geoblocking Required to Avoid Copyright Liability, per D.C. Circuit
Geoblocking is the practice of digitally embedding territorial access restrictions into content distributed across the Internet. At a time when the European Union is legislating anti-geoblocking...
Fed Circuit Watch: Issue Preclusion Cannot Save Voting Method Patent From §101 Ax
On April 20, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Sys. & Software LLC, that in spite of a favorable prior judicial ruling (although not...
Fed Circuit Watch: District Court Bungles Inventorship Issue, Holds Federal Circuit
In a blend of jurisdictional and patent formality law, James v. J2 Cloud Services, LLC, deals with the question of whether the inventor retained ownership over a patent so he had standing to sue for...
Fed Circuit Watch: Dropped Priority Claim Invalidates Patent
On April 19, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down Droplets, Inc. v. E\Trade Bank*, in a case dealing with the formal issue of preparing a proper claim of priority in the...
Fed Circuit Watch: Swearing Behind Must be Supported by Sufficient Evidence
On April 17, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in Apator Miitors ApS v. Kamstrup A/S, that in order for a patent assignee to swear behind a reference by antedating its own...
SCOTUS Watch: IPRs Do Not Violate Article III or Seventh Amendment
Article III of the U.S. Constitution states: The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain...
Fed Circuit Watch: Plain Claim Language Not Narrowed Unless Patentee Explicitly Disclaims Scope
An interesting study in organic chemistry appeared at the Federal Circuit. On April 16, 2018, a Fed Circuit panel in Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. v. Emcure Pharm. Ltd., held that plain claim...
WesternGeco Damages Case Before SCOTUS in Doubt After Fed Circuit Ruling
A recently-issued decision from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may have implications on a pending case before the U.S. Supreme Court. That case, WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical...
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