On February 9, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down Polaris Indus., Inc. v. Arctic Cat, Inc., where a Fed Circuit panel criticized the invalidation of all 38 claims of...
On February 23, 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a decision denying the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe’s various motions to terminate several inter...
On February 9, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a short order refusing jurisdiction over a Walker Process antitrust claim, and transferred the case, Xitronix Corp. v....
As of February 14, 2018, at last count, there have been six substantive opinions rendered by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit relating to 35 U.S.C. §101, creating an unusually large body...
On February 6, 2018, an interesting ruling was handed down by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In The Medicines Co. v. Hospira, Inc., the Fed Circuit held that a distribution agreement...
On February 6, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in Actelion Pharm., Ltd. v. Matal. This case deals with the sometimes mundane aspects of filling out the proper forms required...
On January 24, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., holding that the patent owner’s pre-IPR-institution statutory disclaimer resulting in...
On January 25, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled claims directed to improved display interface for cell phones was patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. §101 in Core Wireless...
On January 11, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on the Advanced Video Technology, LLC v. HTC Corp., case. This case is a unique one dealing with the logistics of a patent...
On January 23, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down In re Janssen Biotech, Inc., which dealt with the specific issue of the double patenting safe harbor under...