2019 Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
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Date: December 27, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2361
Justia Opinion Summary: Persion’s 760 and 499 patents, both entitled “Treating Pain in Patients with Hepatic Impairment” share a common written description and priority date and are directed to methods of treating pain in patients with mild or…
Date: December 27, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1330
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2006-2010, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded DAI developmental services contracts for Afghanistan. DAI subcontracted with EI, which employed over 1,000 individuals to provide security…
Date: December 26, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1349
Date: December 23, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1440
Date: December 20, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1856
Date: December 19, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1122
Justia Opinion Summary: IV alleged infringement of patents directed to filtering data files (such as email messages) based on content. The court severed the defendants. During claim construction in the Symantec action, IV’s expert consistently…
Date: December 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1614
Justia Opinion Summary: Syngenta sued Willowood, a Hong Kong company that sells fungicide to its Oregon-based affiliate, for infringement of patents directed to a fungicide compound and its manufacturing processes and infringement of…
Date: December 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2024
Justia Opinion Summary: SRAM’s patent generally covers an improved bicycle chainring structure that better maintains the chain, obviating the need for extraneous structures. On inter partes review, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found that…
Date: December 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2112
Justia Opinion Summary: Chamberlain’s 611 patent, entitled “Barrier Movement Operator Human Interface Method and Apparatus,” is directed to improved methods of human interaction with “barrier movement operators,” such as garage door operator…
Date: December 17, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1261
Date: December 16, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2393
Justia Opinion Summary: Blackbird sued HIM for infringement of a patent relating to exercise equipment. Blackbird is owned and controlled entirely by attorneys, whose business model consists of purchasing patents and monetizing them “through…
Date: December 16, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1067
Justia Opinion Summary: Amgen’s patents relate to erythropoietin (EPO) isoforms and aspects of their production. EPO is a glycoprotein hormone that regulates red blood cell maturation and production. Recombinant human EPO is an important…
Date: December 13, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1160
Date: December 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2191
Justia Opinion Summary: Chamberlain's patent discloses improved “movable barrier operators,” such as garage door openers. The patent describes a need for “a passive infrared detector for controlling illumination from a garage door operator…
Date: December 11, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1367
Date: December 9, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1880
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1366
Date: December 5, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1363
Justia Opinion Summary: Ericsson owns patents essential to practicing standards (SEPs) that enable mobile devices from different manufacturers and different networks to communicate with each other using the same communication protocol. Ericsson…
Date: December 5, 2019
Docket Number: 19-2184
Justia Opinion Summary: Following a 2019 Federal Circuit decision and enactment of the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019 133 Stat. 966, the petitioners, who served on open sea ships off the Vietnamese shore during the Vietnam War…
Date: December 4, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2243
Justia Opinion Summary: McCord injured his back while serving in the Army and was discharged with a 20% disability rating. Because his rating was below 30% and he served for less than 20 years, McCord received severance pay instead of ongoing…
Date: December 3, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2087
Justia Opinion Summary: Omnium sued Donghee, asserting infringement of eight patents, including the 921 and 812 patents, which generally relate to manufacturing plastic fuel tanks formed by blow molding. The fuel tanks are formed in a way that…
Date: November 27, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1757
Justia Opinion Summary: The Landowners filed a “rails-to-trails” class action against the United States, claiming that the government, through the National Trails System Act, effected a Fifth Amendment taking of Landowners’ reversionary rights…
Date: November 27, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2052
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1980, Langkamp, then a toddler, suffered severe burn injuries on U.S. Army property. In a suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the parties entered into a Settlement Agreement. The government agreed to pay…
Date: November 27, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2262
Date: November 26, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2133
Date: November 22, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1766
Justia Opinion Summary: The challenged patents relate to certain improvements to electronic communications systems that lower the peak-to-average power ratio (PAR) of the transmitted signals. Lowering the PAR of a communications system is…
Date: November 22, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1805
Justia Opinion Summary: IPR’s 244 patent recognizes two types of wireless networks: a wireless local area network, which allows a user to wirelessly connect a portable electronic device to an access point, e.g., a router, that is in turn…
Date: November 22, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1050
Date: November 22, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1163
Justia Opinion Summary: Pharma Tech sued LifeScan for infringement of two patents that concern blood glucose monitoring systems for home use by individuals with diabetes. The shared specification of Pharma Tech’s patents states that the claimed…
Date: November 21, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1005
Date: November 20, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1368
Date: November 19, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1171
Justia Opinion Summary: GAT’s 243 patent discloses a “method and system for providing an online game, in which ability information of a unit associated with a pilot is enabled to change as ability information of the pilot changes.” In July…
Date: November 19, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1368
Date: November 18, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1254
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1863
Justia Opinion Summary: KPN sued Gemalto for infringement of its 662 patent, which concerns “systemic error” in the physical transmission of information over the air, The district court found four claims patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. 101,…
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1945
Justia Opinion Summary: The Federal Acquisition Regulation permits contractors such as Northrop to seek reimbursement from the federal government for “allowable” post-retirement benefit (PRB) costs. The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals…
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2262
Date: November 14, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1323
Justia Opinion Summary: The Klamath River Basin Reclamation Project straddles the Oregon-California border and provides water to hundreds of farms. The Project is managed by the Bureau of Reclamation. In 2001, the Bureau temporarily halted…
Date: November 13, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1329
Justia Opinion Summary: Columbia’s 270 patent is a utility patent directed to materials that use a pattern of heat-directing elements coupled to a base fabric to manage heat through reflection or conductivity. Figures in the patent depict the…
Date: November 13, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2380
Date: November 13, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1150
Date: November 8, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2408
Justia Opinion Summary: Norman, a school teacher, opened a “numbered” Swiss bank account with UBS in 1999. Statements for the account list only the account number, not Norman’s name or address. From 2001-2008, her balance ranged between $1.5…
Date: November 8, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1001
Date: November 8, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1176
Justia Opinion Summary: The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) provides “duty-free treatment” for “eligible article[s] from . . . beneficiary developing countr[ies],” 19 U.S.C. 2461 (2012), including India. Congressional authorization for…
Date: November 8, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1803
Justia Opinion Summary: On inter partes reexamination after the Federal Circuit vacated the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s prior decision, the Board reversed the patent examiner’s rejection of new claims presented by Firepass (the patent…
Date: November 7, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2381
Justia Opinion Summary: Ericsson’s 052 patent describes and claims a “direct conversion receiver” for wireless communication systems that may receive signals from systems that operate at different frequency bands. On inter partes review, the…
Date: November 7, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2433
Justia Opinion Summary: McGuffin began his employment with SSA as a preference-eligible veteran, entitled to receive CSRA (Civil Service Reform Act, 92. Stat. 1111) protections after one year. During his first months, McGuffin had a low case…
Date: November 7, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2082
Date: November 7, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2333
Justia Opinion Summary: J.B. was born four weeks prematurely but progressed normally. At his four-month well-baby visit, J.B. was healthy, with normal chest and lungs and no fever, nasal congestion, or cough; J.B. received vaccinations for…
Date: November 6, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1778
Date: November 6, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1010
Justia Opinion Summary: The Northern California Power Agency and three California cities, Redding, Roseville, and Santa Clara (plaintiffs) purchase hydroelectric power that is generated by power plants under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Bureau…
Date: November 6, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1242
Date: November 4, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1877
Date: November 4, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1877
Date: November 4, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1127
Justia Opinion Summary: The 2012 patent application relates to the construction of travel trailers with two compartments, living quarters and a garage portion, separated by a wall assembly. Claim 1 covers a travel trailer with first and second…
Date: November 1, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2239
Date: November 1, 2019
Docket Numbers: 19-1001, 18-2239
Justia Opinion Summary: In “Arthrex,” the Federal Circuit concluded that the appointments of Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) violated the Appointments Clause and vacated a decision made by a panel of APJs. Customedia sought to assert the…
Date: November 1, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1141
Date: October 31, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2140
Justia Opinion Summary: Arthrex’s patent is directed to a knotless suture securing assembly. On inter partes review, heard by a three-judge panel consisting of three Patent Trial and Appeal Board Administrative Patent Judges (APJs), several…
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1691
Justia Opinion Summary: Index and Gilead were developing drugs for treating the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Idenix alleged that the imminent FDA approval, and launch, of Gilead’s HCV treatment drug sofosbuvir would infringe Idenix’s 597 patent.…
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2152
Justia Opinion Summary: Liqwd’s patent, titled “Keratin Treatment Formulations and Methods,” relates to formulations and methods of treating hair, skin, or nails by mixing compounds with a coloring or bleaching formulation to achieve a…
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2397
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1394
Justia Opinion Summary: The Army Corps of Engineers awarded Ikhana a contract to build a Pentagon facility by October 12, 2015. Ikhana procured required performance and payments bonds from GCNA, which required Ikhana to execute a general…
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1812
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1266
Date: October 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2213
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1367
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2371
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005, Raytheon submitted its 2004 incurred cost rate proposal for a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee contract for engineering services associated with the Patriot Weapons system. Raytheon’s Corporate Controller certified that all…
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1112
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1296
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2014, the Department of Commerce initiated an antidumping-duty investigation under 19 U.S.C. 1673–1673h into steel nail products from Oman and other countries. Commerce separated the Omani investigation into its own…
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2226
Justia Opinion Summary: The Taxpayers, West Virginia non-stock, not-for-profit, 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3) organizations, are generally exempt from federal income tax but are not exempt from taxes on “wages” from “employment” under the Federal…
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2400
Justia Opinion Summary: Fraunhofer’s patents relate to multicarrier modulation for transmitting a main data stream over multiple carrier data streams, which is useful in satellite-based communication networks. In 1998, Fraunhofer gave…
Date: October 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1810
Date: October 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2099
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2234
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1157
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1245
Date: October 10, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2149
Justia Opinion Summary: Horizon’s patents generally relate to methods and compositions for treating osteoarthritis and share a substantially similar specification; there are method-of-use patents and formulation patents. Both groups of patents…
Date: October 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2190
Date: October 10, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1132
Date: October 9, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2356
Justia Opinion Summary: B.E. sued Facebook for infringement of B.E.’s 314 patent. Approximately a year into the case, Facebook and two other parties B.E. had accused of infringement, Microsoft and Google, filed petitions for inter partes review…
Date: October 9, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1726
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1256
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2363
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1925
Justia Opinion Summary: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was the leading cause of cancer deaths in 2000. The standard for treating NSCLC was chemotherapy, which ameliorated some lung cancer-related symptoms, but was limited in use due to…
Date: October 3, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1229
Justia Opinion Summary: Based on Mid Continent’s petition, the Department of Commerce initiated an antidumping duty investigation into steel nail products from Taiwan and certain other places. Commerce separated the Taiwanese investigation into…
Date: October 3, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1763
Justia Opinion Summary: AAM’s 911 patent generally relates to a method for manufacturing driveline propeller shafts with liners that are designed to attenuate vibrations transmitted through a shaft assembly. Propshafts are employed in…
Date: October 3, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1078
Date: October 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1926
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1983-1984, the Farmers Home Administration issued apartment owners (Appellants) 50-year loans to provide low-income housing under 42 U.S.C. 1485. A promissory note provided that prepayments “may be made at any time at…
Date: October 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2095
Justia Opinion Summary: Montelongo was a West Point student cadet, 1973-1977, then served in the Army 1977-1996, from which he retired. From June 21, 2001, to March 28, 2005, Montelongo served as a civilian presidential appointee in the Air…
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1151
Justia Opinion Summary: Honeywell’s patent, directed to fluoroalkene compounds used in refrigeration systems and other applications, issued in October 2015 and recites a chain of priority applications dating back to 2002, all of which were…
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1948
Justia Opinion Summary: Alternative Carbon claimed nearly $20 million in energy tax credits meant for taxpayers who sell alternative fuel mixtures under 26 U.S.C. 6426(e)(1). The Internal Revenue Service determined that Alternative Carbon…
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2029
Justia Opinion Summary: Gamon owns the 646 and 645 patents, which each claim the ornamental design for a gravity feed dispenser display (a can dispenser). On inter partes review, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board held that Campbell did not…
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2223
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2224
Date: September 25, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1635
Justia Opinion Summary: Sipco’s patent explains communicating information from a previously unconnected, remote device to a central location. Rather than set up a direct communication link, the invention sets up a two-step communication path…
Date: September 25, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2289
Date: September 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1534
Date: September 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1781
Justia Opinion Summary: Section 515 of the Housing Act of 1949, 42 U.S.C. 1485, authorizes the Department of Agriculture, Farmers Home Administration to loan money to nonprofit entities to provide rental housing for elderly and low- and…
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2388
Date: September 19, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2231
Date: September 19, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2420
Date: September 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1348
Date: September 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1616
Justia Opinion Summary: Inspired Development sued KidsEmbrace for breach of contract and other related state law claims in federal district court on the basis of diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1332(a). The dispute involved the purported…
Date: September 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1849
Justia Opinion Summary: In September 2010, IntraCellular filed the application leading to the 077 patent. In October 2012, the Patent Office issued a non-final office action including rejections under 35 U.S.C. 103 and 112. Intra-Cellular…
Date: September 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2118
Date: September 16, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2031
Justia Opinion Summary: The patent term length is 20 years from the effective filing date of the application, 35 U.S.C. 154. Applicants are compensated for three classes of prosecution delay: a “B Delay” generally entitles the applicant to…
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1596
Justia Opinion Summary: During frying, cooking oil gradually degrades and loses its cooking capacity, generating impurities called total polar materials (TPMs). Frymaster’s patent describes a system for measuring the state of cooking oil…
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2214
Justia Opinion Summary: Curver’s 946 patent, filed in 2011, entitled “Pattern for a Chair” claims an “ornamental design for a pattern for a chair” with an overlapping “Y” design. The design patent’s figures, however, merely illustrate the…
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1367
Justia Opinion Summary: The Intellectual Ventures (IV) patents are directed to tracking and storing information relating to a user’s purchases and expenses; methods and systems for providing customized Internet content to a user as a function…
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1744
Date: September 9, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1462
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2067
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2111
Date: September 5, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2617
Date: September 5, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1700
Justia Opinion Summary: University of Texas System (UT) sued BSC for patent infringement in the Western District of Texas. The patents resulted from research conducted at UT and are directed to implantable drug-releasing biodegradable fibers.…
Date: September 3, 2019
Docket Number: 17-1688
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2094
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2185
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2089
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2207
Justia Opinion Summary: Allergan’s patents, entitled “Combination of Brimonidine and Timolol for Topical Ophthalmic Use,” the Patents-in-Suit share a common specification that relates “to the topical ophthalmic use of brimonidine in…
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1643
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2014, BioDelivery filed three petitions for inter partes review (IPR) of Aquestive’s 167 patent. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituted review on a single ground in each petition. For the 14 non-instituted…
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2472
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1019
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1406
Justia Opinion Summary: Sharpe checked in aboard the USS Carl Vinson in 2006. The aircraft carrier was undergoing an overhaul and was uninhabitable. Sharpe was instructed to report to the Media Department in the Newport News complex. Sharpe…
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2042
Justia Opinion Summary: Guangdong is a foreign manufacturer of aerogel insulation products currently subject to a limited exclusion order entered by the U.S. International Trade Commission following an unfair competition investigation. The…
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1617
Date: August 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1584
Justia Opinion Summary: Arthrex’s 541 patent describes a surgical suture anchor used to reattach soft tissue to bone. The disclosed “fully threaded suture anchor” includes “an eyelet shield that is molded into the distal part of the…
Date: August 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1803
Justia Opinion Summary: Citing the Fair Labor Standards Act, which entitles employees to overtime pay for their hours of work that exceed 40 hours per week, 29 U.S.C. 207(a)(1), a group of U.S. Border Patrol Agents sought compensation for…
Date: August 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2103
Justia Opinion Summary: CGI’s 275 patent relates to an apparatus and method for communicating information about the status of a movable barrier, for example, a garage door. The district court rejected TTI’s allegation that the asserted claims…
Date: August 20, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1019
Date: August 16, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1232
Date: August 16, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1758
Justia Opinion Summary: MyMail’s patents are directed to methods of modifying toolbars that are displayed on Internet-connected devices such as personal computers. MyMail sued ooVoo and IAC for infringement of the MyMail patents. After the…
Date: August 16, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1045
Justia Opinion Summary: In September 2017, Anza alleged that Mushkin had infringed its 927 patent, entitled “Flip Chip Bonding Tool and Ball Placement Capillary,” which relates to “dissipative and insulative ceramic flip chip bonding tools and…
Date: August 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1221
Justia Opinion Summary: Nalpropion markets Contrave® for weight management in overweight or obese adults, with three Orange Book-listed patents. The 626 patent is drawn to a method for treating overweight or obesity comprising diagnosing an…
Date: August 14, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1672
Date: August 14, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1804
Justia Opinion Summary: Sanofi’s 170 and 592 patents respectively claim the compound cabazitaxel and methods of using it. Sanofi markets cabazitaxel under the trade name Jevtana® to treat certain drug-resistant prostate cancers. Both patents…
Date: August 14, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1615
Date: August 13, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1509
Justia Opinion Summary: The U.S. Department of Treasury issues savings bonds, a type of debt security that never expires and may be redeemed at any time after maturity, 31 U.S.C. 3105(b)(2)(A). Federal law limits the ability to transfer bonds.…
Date: August 12, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2292
Justia Opinion Summary: MTD’s 458 patent discloses a steering and driving system for zero-turn radius (ZTR) vehicles, with specific reference to ZTR lawnmowers. The patented system is designed to provide a more intuitive steering mechanism to…
Date: August 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1449
Justia Opinion Summary: Iridescent’s 119 patent, entitled “System and Method of Providing Bandwidth on Demand,” is directed to a system and method of network communication that provides guaranteed bandwidth on demand for applications that…
Date: August 9, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2056
Date: August 9, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2056
Justia Opinion Summary: The University, an agent or instrumentality of the Swiss Confederation, having a place of business in Bern, Switzerland, granted an exclusive license of its 114 patent to the German company LABOKLIN, whose principal…
Date: August 9, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2126
Justia Opinion Summary: Lilly markets the compound pemetrexed in the form of a disodium salt as Alimta®, which is indicated, both alone and in combination with other active agents, for treating certain types of non-small cell lung cancer and…
Date: August 8, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1341
Justia Opinion Summary: The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 established a system that includes the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and 12 regional Reserve Banks. The Board exercises broad regulatory supervision over the Reserve Banks, which…
Date: August 7, 2019
Docket Number: 16-1782
Date: August 7, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2487
Date: August 7, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2298
Date: August 7, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2298
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Commerce conducted its ninth administrative review of an antidumping duty order on chlorinated isocyanurates from China, 19 U.S.C. 1677(18)(A), and assigned Kangtai, selected by Commerce as a mandatory…
Date: August 6, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1590
Justia Opinion Summary: Anjinomoto’s 655 patent claims E. coli bacteria that have been genetically engineered to increase their production of aromatic L-amino acids, such as L-tryptophan, during fermentation, as well as methods of producing…
Date: August 6, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-1606, 18-1922
Justia Opinion Summary: Uniclass and ATEN make and sell keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switch systems that allow a user to control multiple computers from a single keyboard, video device, and mouse. ATEN sued Uniclass and the customer defendants…
Date: August 6, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-1922, 18-1606
Justia Opinion Summary: Uniclass and ATEN make and sell switch systems that allow a user to control multiple computers from a single keyboard, video device, and mouse. ATEN sued Uniclass and the customer defendants alleging infringement of its…
Date: August 5, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1311
Date: August 1, 2019
Docket Number: 17-1591
Justia Opinion Summary: VirnetX appealed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision related to three inter partes reexaminations maintained by Apple and Cisco. In this case, the PTO concluded that Apple was not barred from maintaining its…
Date: August 1, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2057
Justia Opinion Summary: The Federal Circuit affirmed the decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board sustaining Hybrid Athletics' opposition to Hylete's trademark registration application. Hylete's application sought to register a design…
Date: August 1, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2014
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs are a putative class of individuals who asserted personal injury claims against Old GM, and whose successor liability claims were extinguished during bankruptcy. Plaintiffs filed suit on behalf of themselves…
Date: July 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1167
Justia Opinion Summary: A teratogen is an agent known to disturb the development of an embryo or fetus. Teratogenic drugs, such as thalidomide, can cause birth defects or other abnormalities following fetal exposure during pregnancy. Celgene’s…
Date: July 30, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1345
Justia Opinion Summary: Solutran’s patent, issued in 2012, describes a system for processing paper checks. It explains that the digital age ushered in a faster approach to processing checks, where the transaction information on the check is…
Date: July 29, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1993
Justia Opinion Summary: Recombinant therapeutic proteins are a class of biologic medicines that are manufactured inside living cells. Before a protein can be therapeutically useful, it must first be purified from contaminants. Amgen’s patent…
Date: July 26, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2101
Justia Opinion Summary: A 1941 Executive Order, ordered into the service of the U.S. armed forces all of the organized military forces of the Philippines, a U.S. territory. Various Filipino military organizations and more than 100,000 members…
Date: July 24, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2227
Justia Opinion Summary: The Moodys leased Pine Ridge Indian Reservation parcels for agriculture. The government has a trust responsibility for Indian agricultural lands, 25 U.S.C. 3701(2). The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to…
Date: July 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1613
Date: July 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1613
Justia Opinion Summary: Ford’s design patents relating to F-150 trucks are titled “Exterior of Vehicle Hood” and “Vehicle Head Lamp.” Before the International Trade Commission, Ford accused members of an association of companies that…
Date: July 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2057
Date: July 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2136
Justia Opinion Summary: While serving on a Navy aircraft carrier in 1969, Francway was hit by wind: “[t]he resulting fall caused him to injure his back.” He “was placed on bedrest for a week and assigned to light duty for three months.” In…
Date: July 22, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1282
Justia Opinion Summary: Hymer imported vehicles into the U.S. from Canada. Customs classified them under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 8703.24.00, which applies a tariff of 2.5% to “motor vehicles principally designed…
Date: July 19, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1604
Justia Opinion Summary: Smith worked at the General Services Administration for nearly 30 years before GSA removed him. For most of his career, he received positive evaluations and faced no discipline. When Smith began to complain about GSA’s…
Date: July 19, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1733
Date: July 19, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1761
Date: July 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2206
Justia Opinion Summary: Under a 2011 contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), HHL was to provide transportation services in Afghanistan. After the contract expired, HHL requested additional compensation based on alleged contract…
Date: July 16, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2055
Justia Opinion Summary: From 1943-1990, the government produced plutonium for nuclear weapons at Washington’s Hanford Site, leaving behind 56 million gallons of nuclear waste in underground tanks. In 2000, Bechtel was awarded a…
Date: July 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1890
Date: July 15, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2145
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2223
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2223
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2587
Justia Opinion Summary: Indivior markets and holds the New Drug Application (NDA) for Suboxone® sublingual film, an opioid addiction treatment that combines two active ingredients: the opioid buprenorphine and the opioid antagonist naloxone.…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1725
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2007
Justia Opinion Summary: Infobridge’s 772 Patent, titled “Method of Constructing Merge List,” generally relates to encoding and decoding video data; the patented methods are essential to the High-Efficiency Video Coding standard (H.265…
Date: July 10, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2497
Justia Opinion Summary: UTC’s patent is generally directed to a gas turbine engine having a gear train driven by a spool with a low stage count low-pressure turbine, designed for use in airplanes. GE sought inter partes review. The Patent…
Date: July 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1779
Justia Opinion Summary: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board found four claims of Quake’s patent and Claim 25 of its Patent Application unpatentable for lack of written description, 35 U.S.C. 112. The claims cover a method of determining the…
Date: July 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1799
Justia Opinion Summary: TQ’s patent, entitled “Multicarrier Transmission System with Low Power Sleep Mode and Rapid-On Capability,” relates to the field of “multicarrier transmission systems” that provide high-speed data links between…
Date: July 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1806
Justia Opinion Summary: TQ’s patent, entitled “Multicarrier Transmission System with Low Power Sleep Mode and Rapid-On Capability,” relates to the field of “multicarrier transmission systems” that provide high speed data links between…
Date: July 9, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1022
Date: July 8, 2019
Docket Number: 17-1368
Date: July 5, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2498
Justia Opinion Summary: Nucleic acids DNA and RNA are made of a series of building blocks, called nucleotides, linked together in a chain. Hybridization techniques are used to detect the presence of certain nucleic acid sequences of interest,…
Date: July 5, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1426
Justia Opinion Summary: Global’s patent claims carpeted automotive vehicle load floors having sandwich-type composite panels with cellular cores. Global filed a reissue application, seeking to broaden its claims. It replaced the term…
Date: July 5, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1651
Date: July 5, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1697
Date: July 5, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1699
Justia Opinion Summary: Westech sued 3M in the Western District of Washington, alleging infringement. 3M moved to dismiss the original and amended complaints. While 3M’s motion was pending, the Supreme Court decided, in TC Heartland, that under…
Date: July 5, 2019
Docket Number: 19-123
Date: July 3, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2508
Date: July 2, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2543
Date: July 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1259
Justia Opinion Summary: Kolcraft’s 970 and 231 Design Patents are both titled “Exposed Legs for a Play Yard” and have an effective filing date of November 2004. In 2016, Graco sought inter partes review, challenging the patents on multiple…
Date: July 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1495
Date: July 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1962
Justia Opinion Summary: Quiedan imports agricultural stakes produced in China for use in training grape vines and other plants. Each stake is made of steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) by cutting rebar to a length of four to five feet, then…
Date: July 1, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2125
Date: July 1, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2137
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1120
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1751
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1877
Justia Opinion Summary: WestRock’s Virginia paper mill was fueled by steam from boilers that burned various fuels, including fossil fuels. In 2013, WestRock placed into service a cogeneration facility that burns open-loop biomass, material not…
Date: June 25, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1817
Justia Opinion Summary: Cellspin sued Fitbit, Moov, Nike, Fossil, Garmin, Canon, GoPro, Panasonic, and JKI (defendants) for infringing various claims of four patents that share the same specification and generally relate to connecting a data…
Date: June 25, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1910
Justia Opinion Summary: Elbit’s 073 patent, entitled “Reverse Link for a Satellite Communication Network,” claims a system for transmitting information from user terminals to a central hub using satellite communication—a “reverse link.” Add “a…
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1391
Justia Opinion Summary: NOVA challenged a 2017 Veterans Administration (VA) amendment to 38 C.F.R. 3.321(b)(1), confining the preexisting regulation (as interpreted by a 2014 Federal Circuit ruling) and authorizing the VA “[t]o accord justice…
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1397
Justia Opinion Summary: UCB’s 434 patent, entitled “Transdermal therapeutic system which contains a d2 agonist and which is provided for treating Parkinsonism, and a method for the production thereof,” claims a polymorph of rotigotine. UCB’s…
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1934
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1593
Justia Opinion Summary: Mayne’s 745 patent discloses and claims pharmaceutical compositions of azole antifungal drugs that are practically insoluble in aqueous media. The patent explains that insoluble drugs are difficult to formulate into…
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1787
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2016, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued its final determination in its investigation into whether the Korean government had provided, to Korean producers and exporters of certain corrosion-resistant steel…
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1981
Justia Opinion Summary: Activision sought inter partes review of GAT’s 743 patent, entitled “Method and System for Providing Character Having Game Item Functions,” which relates to the field of customizing Internet game characters in online…
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1735
Justia Opinion Summary: Shea began serving in the Air Force in October 2006. Her pre-enlistment examination indicated a normal psychiatric condition. A January 2007 medical examination resulted in a diagnosis of an adjustment disorder with…
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2116
Date: June 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1310
Date: June 17, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2563
Justia Opinion Summary: Hyosung and Diebold manufacture and sell ATMs. Diebold filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission claiming that Hyosung’s imported ATMs infringe its 616 and 631 patents and their importation violates 19…
Date: June 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1765
Justia Opinion Summary: Flow Valve’s patent, entitled “Workpiece Supporting Assembly,” is a reissue of the 213 patent. During reissue prosecution, Flow added claims 14-20 but made no changes to the written description or drawings of the…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1109
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, the Commerce Department posted notice permitting interested parties to request administrative review of duty orders on ball bearings and parts thereof from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom.…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1558
Justia Opinion Summary: The Landowners inherited Welty Farm in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, bordered by the Whitewater River. Givens purchased a farm bordering and downstream from the Welty Farm in 1998. Givens maintains a drainage ditch…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1559
Justia Opinion Summary: University of Minnesota (UMN), an arm of the state of Minnesota, pursues patent protection for inventions resulting from its research and is the owner of the patents at issue. LSI designs and supplies semiconductors; it…
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1602
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1607
Justia Opinion Summary: ON Semiconductor sought inter partes review (IPR) of several claims of Power’s 079 patent. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that the IPR was not time-barred by 35 U.S.C. 315(b) and that the challenged claims…
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1705
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2312
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2474
Justia Opinion Summary: Elm owns the Challenged Patents, which share a specification and all relate to “stacked integrated circuit memory.” The Challenged Patents are the subject of co-pending litigation between Elm and Petitioners. The Patent…
Date: June 11, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1880
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1490
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1971
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1018
Justia Opinion Summary: Ford successfully sued in the Court of International Trade, challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s classification of its model year 2012 Transit Connect 6/7 vehicles under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the…
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1376
Date: May 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1581
Justia Opinion Summary: The asserted patents were originally assigned to AMD, which later purported to transfer “all right, title and interest” in the patents to Lone Star, with several limitations. For example, Lone Star agreed to only assert…
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1777
Justia Opinion Summary: Pabst’s patent, entitled “Analog Data Generating and Processing Device Having a Multi-Use Automatic Processor,” issued in 2015 and claims priority to a 1999 application through continuations of applications that issued…
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1836
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1987
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1172
Justia Opinion Summary: Sony’s patent is directed to “an information recording medium” (e.g., a compact disk, video disk, or magneto-optical disk) that can store audio data having multiple channels and “a reproducing device” that can select…
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2423
Justia Opinion Summary: Quest’s patent relates to a system for displaying inspection data collected from certain commercial furnaces (e.g., a furnace used in a refinery). The patent attempts to improve upon how prior art systems displayed…
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1105
Date: May 20, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2325
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1116
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of International Trade held that Sunpreme’s solar modules are covered by the scope of antidumping and countervailing duty orders on U.S. imports of certain solar cells from China and that the Department of…
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2091
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2473
Justia Opinion Summary: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as aspirin and naproxen, control pain but have undesirable side effects, including gastrointestinal problem. Some practitioners began prescribing acid inhibitors,…
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number: 19-1147
Justia Opinion Summary: BTG’s 438 Patent, entitled “Methods and Compositions for Treating Cancer,” discloses the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a CYP17 inhibitor, such as abiraterone acetate, in combination with at…
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2579
Justia Opinion Summary: Bradium’s patents, entitled “Optimized Image Delivery over Limited Bandwidth Communication Channels,” are broadly directed to retrieving large-scale images over network communication channels in low bandwidth conditions…
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1106
Justia Opinion Summary: Presidio's 639 patent describes and claims single-layer ceramic capacitors with certain features. Competitor AVX, which manufactures and sells various electronic components, including capacitors, petitioned for an inter…
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1434
Justia Opinion Summary: The Novartis 131 patent claims methods of using the compound everolimus to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Advanced RCC is a cancer of the kidneys that has spread to other parts of the body. Everolimus is the…
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