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Unwired Planet v Google 2016

Unwired Planet, LLC v. Google Inc No. 2015-1812 Fed. Cir. Nov. 21, 2016 Opinion by Circuit Judge Reyna with Circuit Judges Plager and Hughes. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Court) found that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board relied on an incorrect definition of a covered business method (“CBM”) patent. The Court […]
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MIT v Shire Pharmaceuticals 2016

MIT v. Shire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. No. 2015-1881 Fed. Cir. Oct. 13, 2016 Opinion by Circuit Stoll with Circuit Judges O’Malley and Chen. The issues on appeal are: 1) the district court’s claim construction of “vascularized organ tissue” and “cells derived from a vascularized tissue” in view of the prosecution history; and 2) the district court’s […]
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Wi-Fi One v Broadcom

WI-FI ONE, LLC, Appellant, v. BROADCOM CORPORATION, Appellee Wi-Fi asserted before the Board and on appeal that Broadcom was barred from petitioning for inter parties review because it was in privity with a time-barred district court litigant under 35 U.S.C. §315(b). The Court disagreed, and reasserted its holding in Achates that §314(d) prohibits this court […]
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Multilayer Stretch Cling Film v Berry Plastics

Multilayer Stretch Cling Film Holdings, Inc., v. Berry Plastics Corporation No. 2015-1420, -1477 Fed. Cir. Aug. 4, 2016 Opinion by Circuit Judge Dyk with Circuit Judge Plager. Opinion dissenting in part by Circuit Judge Taranto. Multilayer appealed the lower court’s summary judgment of non-infringement of US Patent No. 6,265,055 and invalidation of Claim 10 of […]
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Unwired Planet v Apple

Unwired Planet, LLC v. Apple Inc. No. 2015-1725 Fed. Cir. July 22 2016 Opinion by Circuit Judge Moore with Circuit Judges Bryson and Reyna. Unwired Planet appealed the lower court’s summary judgment of non-infringement of U.S. Patent Nos.: 6,532,446  Server based speech recognition user interface for wireless devices 6,647,260  Method and system facilitating web based […]
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