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Mojave Desert Holdings v. Crocs

MOJAVE DESERT HOLDINGS, LLC, Appellant v. CROCS, INC., Appellee Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. 95/002,100. ORDER ISSUED: February 11, 2021  ORDER MODIFIED: April 21, 2021 U.S.A. Dawgs appealed from a United States Patent and Trademark Office decision finding Crocs design patent (No. D517,789) patentable. […]
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VirnetX v Apple

VirnetX Inc., v. Apple Inc. Nos. 2017-1591, 2017-1592, 2017-1593 Fed. Cir. August 1, 2019 Before Chief Judge Prost, with Circuit Judges Moore and Reyna. Opinion by Chief Judge Prost. VirnetX Inc. (“VirnetX”) appealed from decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) related to three inter partes reexaminations maintained by Apple Inc. and Cisco […]
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D Three v Sunmodo Corp

D THREE ENTERPRISES, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant v. SUNMODO CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee 2017-1909, 2017-1910 Decided: May 21, 2018 The district court granted summary judgment in favor of appellees based on a determination that D Three could not claim priority from a provisional application filed February 9, 2009 (“2009 Application”). The priority claim was necessary to D Three’s case, […]
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Travel Sentry v David Tropp

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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Presidio v American Technical Ceramics

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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Adjustacam v Newegg

ADJUSTACAM, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee v. NEWEGG, INC., NEWEGG.COM, INC., ROSEWILL, INC., Defendants-Appellants 2016-1882 Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in No. 6:10-cv-00329-JRG, Judge J. Rodney Gilstrap. Decided: July 5, 2017 The Federal Circuit reversed the denial of attorney’s fees by the Eastern District of Texas. AdjustaCam sued Newegg and […]
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Mentor v Synopsys

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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Shire v Watson Pharmaceuticals

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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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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