2018 Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 501 - 761 of 761
Date: April 20, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1930
Justia Opinion Summary: Verified’s patent is directed to “auto-verification” of a voter’s ballot. In 2009, Verified sued Election Systems, which markets automated voting systems, for infringement. Election counterclaimed that the patent's…
Date: April 19, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2504
Justia Opinion Summary: Droplets’s 115 Patent, describing a system “for delivering interactive links for presenting applications and second information at a client computer from remote sources in a network-configured computer processing…
Date: April 19, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1502
Justia Opinion Summary: John Bean’s patent, directed to a chiller for cooling poultry carcasses, issued in 2002. Morris is the only other U.S. poultry chiller manufacturer. Weeks after the patent issued, Morris sent a letter stating that Bean…
Date: April 18, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1400
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1995, Raniere assigned all rights in the five patents to GTI. Raniere is not listed on GTI’s incorporation documents as an officer, director, or shareholder. GTI dissolved in 1996. In 2014, Raniere executed a…
Date: April 18, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1526
Date: April 17, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1681
Justia Opinion Summary: Kamstrup filed a petition for inter partes review of the 559 patent. The Board instituted review, based in part on the Nielsen patent. During trial, Apator attempted to swear behind Nielsen’s effective filing date (March…
Date: April 16, 2018
Docket Number: 15-1555
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2003, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) was established to rule Iraq pending transfer of authority to the Iraqi Interim Government (IIG). CPA awarded Agility a Contract to operate warehouses, providing that…
Date: April 16, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1798
Justia Opinion Summary: Stereochemistry is the study of a molecule’s three-dimensional structure. Stereoisomers are molecules with the same chemical formula and structure but different three-dimensional configurations. Enantiomers,…
Date: April 13, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2707
Justia Opinion Summary: Vanda had an exclusive license to the now-expired 198 patent and owns the 610 patent, relating to treatment of schizophrenia with iloperidone wherein the dosage range is based on the patient’s genotype. Vanda owns the…
Date: April 11, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1816
Justia Opinion Summary: The merchandise “consists of three varieties of wet-cooked and/or roasted, salted, flavored, and/or unflavored sunflower seeds in unbroken shells: All Natural Flavor, Spiced Flavor, and Coconut Flavor” for human…
Date: April 6, 2018
Docket Number: 16-1954
Justia Opinion Summary: Knowles’s patent, entitled “Silicon Condenser Microphone and Manufacturing Method,” generally discloses a silicon condenser microphone apparatus, including a housing for shielding a transducer, used in certain types of…
Date: April 4, 2018
Docket Number: 17-2137
Date: April 3, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1466
Justia Opinion Summary: Saunders served on active duty in the Army, 1987-1994. Saunders did not previously experience knee problems but, during her service, sought treatment for knee pain and was diagnosed with patellofemoral pain syndrome…
Date: April 2, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1945
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009-2010, WWRD imported decorative ceramic plates and mugs from its “Old Britain Castles” dinnerware collections; decorative ceramic plates and gravy boats from its “His Majesty” dinnerware collection; and crystal…
Date: March 30, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1407
Justia Opinion Summary: ThyssenKrupp imports corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products (CORE) from Germany. In 1993, the Department of Commerce imposed an antidumping duty on such imports. Between February 14-July 2012, ThyssenKrupp made…
Date: March 28, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1717
Justia Opinion Summary: From 1968-1991, Lledo was employed at the Subic Bay, Philippines U.S. Navy Public Works Center, initially as an Apprentice (electrician) “excepted service – indefinite appointment.” Lledo resigned with the designated…
Date: March 27, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2601
Justia Opinion Summary: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirmed an examiner’s obviousness rejection of patent application claims related to “high density polyurethane or polyisocyanurate construction boards, as well as their use in flat or…
Date: March 27, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1118
Justia Opinion Summary: Oracle’s Java platform for computer programming allows programmers to write programs that “run on different types of computer hardware without having to rewrite them for each different type.” Java Application Programming…
Date: March 23, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2523
Justia Opinion Summary: The 290 patent, which issued in 2000 and is assigned to DSS, is directed to a wireless communication network for a single host device and multiple peripheral devices. It discloses a data network for bidirectional…
Date: March 20, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2623
Justia Opinion Summary: GRK imported into the U.S. three types of screw fasteners, used to mate dissimilar materials and made with corrosion-resistant, case-hardened steel. Customs classified the screws as “other wood screws” under subheading…
Date: March 20, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1584
Justia Opinion Summary: Meridian contracted to construct the Chula Vista Project flood control project, including construction of concrete channels, relocation of a sewer line, and dewatering and water diversion. After commencing work, Meridian…
Date: March 19, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1101
Justia Opinion Summary: Acceleron’s 021 patent is directed to a computer network appliance containing a number of hot-swappable components that can be removed and replaced without turning off or resetting the computer system as a whole. The…
Date: March 19, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1304
Justia Opinion Summary: Power’s 876 patent, “Frequency Jittering Control for Varying the Switching Frequency of a Power Supply,” describes a technique for reducing electromagnetic interference noise “by jittering the switching frequency of a…
Date: March 14, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1389
Justia Opinion Summary: Smith & Nephew’s patent relates to an endoscope and method to remove uterine tissue; it claims priority to an earlier-filed PCT application by the same inventor with a nearly identical specification. On inter partes…
Date: March 14, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1531
Date: March 13, 2018
Docket Number: 15-3173
Date: March 13, 2018
Docket Number: 16-1887
Date: March 13, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1193
Justia Opinion Summary: Aseptic packaging involves putting a sterile food product into a sterile package within a sterile environment. Steuben’s patent is generally directed to providing such a sterile environment in a sterilization tunnel.…
Date: March 13, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1290
Justia Opinion Summary: Aseptic packaging involves putting a sterile food product into a sterile package within a sterile environment. Steuben’s 435 patent is generally directed to providing such a sterile environment in a sterilization tunnel.…
Date: March 13, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1956
Date: March 12, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2738
Justia Opinion Summary: SimpleAir initiated patent infringement lawsuits against Google’s Cloud and Cloud to Device Messaging Services, involving patents from a family of SimpleAir patents directed to push notification technology. The 433…
Date: March 9, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2720
Justia Opinion Summary: In returns for 1995, 1996, and 1997, Stephens a shareholder of SF, a subchapter S corporation, reported "passive activity" passthrough income and passive activity losses (deductible from passive activity income) and…
Date: March 9, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1430
Justia Opinion Summary: Holton supervised a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard crane team that was moving submarine covers. Each unit weighed roughly 60,000 pounds. Holton briefed the crew and gave control over the crane to the authorized rigger, then…
Date: March 7, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1529
Date: March 7, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1842
Justia Opinion Summary: Ottah’s Patent, entitled “Book Holder,” describes “a removable book holder assembly for use by a person in a protective or mobile structure such as a car seat, wheelchair, walker, or stroller” “having an adjustable,…
Date: March 5, 2018
Docket Number: 17-2113
Justia Opinion Summary: The FBI is the sole tenant in a building under a lease between Cleveland Assets and the General Services Administration (GSA) that began in 2002 and was to expire in 2012. The lease has been extended multiple times. GSA…
Date: March 2, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1287
Justia Opinion Summary: In November 2014, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals denied Bly’s request for service connection for bilateral hearing loss. Bly appealed to the Veterans Court. After his opening brief was filed, Bly and the government filed…
Date: March 1, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2010
Justia Opinion Summary: Knowles’s 231 patent, entitled “Microelectromechanical System Package with Environmental and Interference Shield,” discloses microelectromechanical system (MEMS) packages comprising a substrate, a microphone, and a cover…
Date: February 27, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1036
Justia Opinion Summary: Nalco’s patent, titled “Enhanced Mercury Control in Coal-Fired Power Plants,” describes a method for the removal of elemental mercury, a toxic pollutant, from the flue gas created by combustion in coal-fired power…
Date: February 26, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1124
Date: February 20, 2018
Docket Number: 16-1249
Justia Opinion Summary: On inter partes review of Arendi’s patent, which relates to a computerized method for identifying and substituting information in an electronic document, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board held all of the claims…
Date: February 16, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1494
Date: February 14, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1452
Justia Opinion Summary: Aatrix's patents have essentially the same specification and are directed to systems and methods for designing, creating, and importing data into a viewable form on a computer so that a user can manipulate the data and…
Date: February 13, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1318
Date: February 12, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2389
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1985, EgyptAir Flight 648 was hijacked by terrorists, who killed passengers and destroyed the aircraft. The U.S. State Department determined that the terrorists received support from the Libyan government. In 1988, a…
Date: February 12, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1194
Date: February 12, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1434
Justia Opinion Summary: The 222 Application, entitled “System and Method for Operating a Drain Valve,” is directed to a valve assembly for draining contaminants, condensation, and other fluids that adversely affect the efficiency and function…
Date: February 12, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1642
Date: February 9, 2018
Docket Number: 16-1807
Justia Opinion Summary: Polaris’s 405 Patent, titled “Side-by-Side ATV,” issued in December 2013, “relates to [all-terrain vehicles] having at least a pair of laterally spaced apart seating surfaces.” The patent expresses a desire that the ATVs…
Date: February 9, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2746
Justia Opinion Summary: Xitronix filed, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, a “Walker Process” monopolization claim under section 2 of the Sherman Act and sections 4 and 6 of the Clayton Act based on the alleged…
Date: February 9, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1223
Justia Opinion Summary: On September 11, 2012, President Obama published notice “continuing for [one] year the national emergency . . . with respect to the terrorist attacks.” In April 2013, O’Farrell, an Army Reservist, received an order…
Date: February 9, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1560
Justia Opinion Summary: Merck’s 353 patent claims mometasone furoate monohydrate, the active ingredient in Merck’s Nasonex® nasal product. Amneal submitted an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)…
Date: February 8, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1437
Justia Opinion Summary: The 713 patent relates to digitally processing and archiving files in a digital asset management system that parses files into multiple objects and tags the objects to create relationships between them. These objects…
Date: February 8, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1445
Justia Opinion Summary: The 865 application is directed to an elastic knee brace having a framework and a hinge with a strut and arm components. The elastic nature of the knee brace allows for and aids in the flexing of the knee. The…
Date: February 7, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1021
Date: February 7, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1448
Date: February 7, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1448
Justia Opinion Summary: MACOM’s predecessor developed semiconductors using gallium nitride (GaN), obtained patents related to that technology, and sold those patents to Infineon's predecessor, retaining rights under separate license agreement.…
Date: February 7, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1882
Date: February 6, 2018
Docket Number: 14-1469
Justia Opinion Summary: TMC owns patents relating to the drug bivalirudin, a synthetic peptide anti-coagulant. TMC sells the drug for injection under the Angiomax® brand and purchased pharmaceutical batches from BV. In 2005, BV created batches…
Date: February 6, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1238
Justia Opinion Summary: The framework in 35 U.S.C. 154 allows adjustment a patent’s term “[t]o account for any undue delays in patent examination caused by the PTO,” including an “A Delay,” which “arises when the PTO fails to meet statutory…
Date: February 6, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1355
Justia Opinion Summary: Entitled “Motion-Tracking,” the 159 patent generally relates to “tracking motion relative to a moving platform, such as motion-base simulators, virtual environment trainers deployed on board ships, and live vehicular…
Date: February 5, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1689
Justia Opinion Summary: The 1995 agreement, arising from a research collaboration that resulted in the antibody adalimumab, the active ingredient in the drug Humira, is governed by British law. The agreement licensed AbbVie to practice the 516…
Date: February 1, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1387
Justia Opinion Summary: Paice’s related 634 and 097 patents, both titled “Hybrid Vehicles,” are directed to a torque-based algorithm for selecting operating modes in a hybrid vehicle having an internal combustion engine and one or more…
Date: January 31, 2018
Docket Number: 16-1929
Date: January 31, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1180
Justia Opinion Summary: A 2004 IRS regulation excluded medical residents from the FICA tax student exception for services provided after April 1, 2005. In 2010, the IRS decided that residents could qualify for the exception for tax periods…
Date: January 25, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2684
Justia Opinion Summary: The 476 and 020 patents disclose improved display interfaces, particularly for electronic devices with small screens like mobile telephones to allow a user to more quickly access desired data stored in, and functions of…
Date: January 25, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1039
Justia Opinion Summary: Crespe’s 585 patent “relates to a broadband television signal receiver for receiving multi-standard analog television signals, digital television signals and data channels.” A television receiver takes incoming…
Date: January 24, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1239
Justia Opinion Summary: In an inter partes review proceeding (IPR), Arthrex disclaimed all the subject claims before the Patent and Appeal Board issued an institution decision. The Board entered an adverse judgment. The Federal Circuit…
Date: January 23, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1082
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Federal Claims enjoined the U.S. Army from proceeding with, or awarding, a contract to Airbus Helicopter, finding that Army Execution Order 109-14, which implemented the Army’s Aviation Restructure…
Date: January 23, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1257
Justia Opinion Summary: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board, in an ex parte reexamination of Janssen’s 471 patent, affirmed the rejection of claims 1–7 as unpatentable under the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting, which is intended to…
Date: January 23, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1312
Justia Opinion Summary: A U.S. Department of Commerce regulation states: “The Secretary will rescind an administrative review ... if a party that requested a review withdraws the request within 90 days of the date of publication of notice ...…
Date: January 22, 2018
Docket Number: 16-1053
Justia Opinion Summary: SolarWorld sought imposition of antidumping duties under 19 U.S.C. 1673–1673h and countervailing duties under 19 U.S.C. 1671– 1671h on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, modules, laminates, and panels (CSPV…
Date: January 19, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1188
Justia Opinion Summary: Flexuspine sued Globus for infringement. Globus asserted noninfringement and invalidity. After Inter Partes Review and claim construction, the court dismissed several claims and counterclaims and granted Globus summary…
Date: January 17, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2589
Justia Opinion Summary: Securiforce entered into a requirements contract with the government to deliver fuel to eight sites in Iraq. The government terminated the contract for convenience with respect to two sites because Securiforce intended…
Date: January 12, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2197
Justia Opinion Summary: Exmark sued Briggs & Stratton for infringement of a patent directed to a lawn mower having improved flow control baffles. .The court entered summary judgment that claim 1 was not invalid because the claim survived…
Date: January 11, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2309
Justia Opinion Summary: The patent, entitled “Full Duplex Single Clip Video Codec” lists co-inventors, Woo, Li, and Hsiun, and was created while they were Infochips employees. Infochips’ “receivables,” pledged as security, were seized by LM…
Date: January 11, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1254
Date: January 10, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2520
Justia Opinion Summary: Finjan sued Blue Coat for infringement of patents directed to identifying and protecting against malware. Certain claims recite a system and method for providing computer security by attaching a security profile to a…
Date: January 10, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2723
Date: January 9, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1515
Date: January 8, 2018
Docket Number: 15-1944
Justia Opinion Summary: The 215 patent is directed to improving the efficiency by which messages are sent from a receiver to a sender in a telecommunications system to advise the sender that errors occurred in a particular message. In inter…
Date: January 8, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2712
Justia Opinion Summary: The Directors of the Office of Compliance affirmed a finding that the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) engaged in unfair labor practices when it issued Officer Konczos a Command Discipline Warning in response to Konczos’s…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1032
Justia Opinion Summary: Monsanto’s patent, titled “Soybean Seed and Oil Compositions and Methods of Making Same,” claims a two-step process for crossing (mating) two parent soybean lines to produce soybean seeds with a modified fatty acid…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1190
Justia Opinion Summary: Pleasure-Way, manufactures and sells Class B motorhomes. In 2008-2009, having bought 144 DaimlerChrysler AG “Sprinter” vans in the U.S., Pleasure-Way exported them to its facility in Canada, where it converted them into…
Date: January 4, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2649
Justia Opinion Summary: The Commerce Department can impose countervailing duties (CVDs) on imported goods if it “determines that the government of a country . . . is providing, directly or indirectly, a countervailable subsidy with respect to”…
Date: January 2, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1029
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1996, the Federal Communications Commission awarded spectrum licenses to Alpine, for use in the provision of wireless telecommunications services. Alpine bid approximately $8.9 million for one license and $17.3…
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