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January 26, 2018
TRAVEL SENTRY, INC., Plaintiff-Cross-Appellant v. DAVID A. TROPP, Defendant-Appellant 2016-2386, 2016-2387, 2016-2714, 2017-1025 Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Nos. 1:06-cv-06415-ENV- RLM, 1:08-cv-04446-ENV-RLM, Judge Eric N. Vitaliano. For the third time, the Court presided over this dispute regarding whether Travel Sentry, Inc. (“Travel Sentry”) and its licensees infringed […]
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December 26, 2017
PRESIDIO COMPONENTS, INC. v. AMERICAN TECHNICAL CERAMICS CORP. 2016-2607, 2016-2650 Presidio filed suit against American Technical Ceramics Corp. (“ATC”) for patent infringement. The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s holdings that the claims of the patent are not indefinite and that ATC is entitled to absolute intervening rights because a substantive amendment was made during […]
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November 26, 2017
Organik Kimya AS v. Rohm And Haas Co. Nos. 2015-1983, -2001 Fed. Cir. Oct. 11, 2017 Opinion by Circuit Judge Newman with Chief Judge Prost and Circuit Judge Taranto Organik appeals the decisions of the PTAB in two IPR proceedings. The PTAB sustained the patentability of claims U.S Patent No. 6,020,435 (“the ’435 Patent”) and […]
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September 26, 2017
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Appellant v. MEXICHEM AMANCO HOLDING S.A. DE C.V., DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Appellees 2016-1996 Decided: August 1, 2017 Opinion by Circuit Judge Lourie with Circuit Judge Reyna Opinion dissenting-in-part by Circuit Judge Wallach Honeywell appealed from a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirming the Examiner’s […]
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May 26, 2017
Novartis AG v. Noven Pharmaceuticals Inc. No. 2016-1678, -1679 Fed. Cir. Apr. 4, 2017 Opinion by Circuit Judge Wallach with Chief Judge Prost and Circuit Judge Stoll Editors note: The instant appeals concern inter partes reviews of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,316,023 (“the ’023 patent”) and 6,335,031 (“the ’031 patent”) (together, “the Patents-in-Suit”). The United States Court of Appeals […]
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April 26, 2017
MENTOR GRAPHICS v. EVE-USA, INC., SYNOPSYS EMULATION AND VERIFICATION S.A.S, SYNOPSYS, INC. 2015-1470, 2015-1554, 2015-1556 Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Decided: March 16, 2017 This lengthy opinion addresses: whether substantial evidence existed to support a jury’s infringement verdict; assignor estoppel; indefiniteness; eligible subject matter; preclusion of evidence of […]
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March 26, 2017
SHIRE DEVELOPMENT, LLC, SHIRE PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT, INC., COSMO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, GIULIANI INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, NKA NOGRA PHARMA LIMITED, Plaintiffs-Appellees v. WATSON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., NKA ACTAVIS, INC., WATSON LABORATORIES, INC. – FLORIDA, NKA ACTAVIS LABORATORIES FL, INC., WATSON PHARMA, INC., NKA ACTAVIS PHARMA, INC., WATSON LABORATORIES, INC., Defendants-Appellants 2016-1785 February 10, 2017 Plaintiffs Shire sued Defendants Watson […]
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January 26, 2017
U.S. Water Services, Inc. v. Novozymes A/S No. 2015-1950, -1967 Fed. Cir. Dec. 15, 2016 Opinion by Circuit Judge Wallach with Circuit Judges Hughes and Stoll. The district court granted Novozymes’s Motion for Summary Judgment in part, finding certain patent claims invalid as inherently anticipated by various prior art references. However, the district court denied […]
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August 26, 2016
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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May 26, 2016
Patent your Software ? Originally posted at Charleston Digital Corridor Case study: Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corporation You may be able to patent your software after all Mark Twain famously said “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” The same may be true of patents on software. After the Supreme Court’s holding in […]
