2022 Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
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Date: August 12, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1432
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2006, LaBonte went absent without leave (AWOL) from the Army for six months. He voluntarily returned to his base, pleaded guilty to desertion in a court-martial proceeding, and received a Bad Conduct Discharge. In…
Date: August 12, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1923
Justia Opinion Summary: Kamstrup’s 957 patent describes ultrasonic flow meters and housings. The specification discloses that the meters are used for “calculating a consumed quantity of water, heat, cooling, gas or the like.” Ultrasonic flow…
Date: August 11, 2022
Docket Number: 19-2054
Justia Opinion Summary: The Federal Circuit previously affirmed summary judgment of no invalidity for claim 1 of the 348 patent in favor of Hologic, applying the doctrine of assignor estoppel against Minerva. The patent covers an endometrial…
Date: August 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1932
Justia Opinion Summary: Meyer imports cookware. Each cookware item manufactured in Thailand began as a steel disc imported from China. In Thailand, the manufacturer transforms the discs into finished cookware and sells finished cookware to…
Date: August 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2057
Justia Opinion Summary: The 601 patent addresses error rates related to recording data to computer storage devices. Dr. Moon, a UMN professor, and Dr. Brickner, a UMN graduate student, developed maximum transition-run coding to reduce…
Date: August 10, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1697
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, McDonald filed a patent application for methods and systems related to the display of search results. Several original claims did not recite a “processor” for conducting the claimed searches. The examiner…
Date: August 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2098
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the interim relief statute does not preclude a second removal action while a first removal action is still pending when the second action cures a…
Date: August 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2208
Date: August 5, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2347
Justia Opinion Summary: The Federal Circuit affirmed the judgment of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) denying Plaintiff's patent applications, which failed to list any human as an inventor, holding that the Patent Act…
Date: August 4, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1399
Date: August 2, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1988
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal from an antidumping investigation of biodiesel from Argentina the Federal Circuit affirmed the judgment of the United States Court of International Trade, holding that two challenged calculations Commerce…
Date: July 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2060
Justia Opinion Summary: The Seventh Circuit affirmed the judgment of the Court of International Trade determining that the United States Customs and Border Protection timely liquidated or reliquidated ten out of eleven entries of wooden bedroom…
Date: July 27, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1484
Justia Opinion Summary: Realtime filed patent infringement actions against Netflix in the District of Delaware. While that action was ongoing, Netflix filed petitions for inter partes review (IPR) and moved to dismiss the complaint, arguing…
Date: July 19, 2022
Docket Number: 19-2430
Date: July 18, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1547
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, Zafer entered a $40 million contract to build water systems on the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Zafer completed the project and submitted a request for equitable adjustment in September 2013, which it timely…
Date: July 18, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1917
Date: July 18, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2032
Justia Opinion Summary: Morris served in the Army, 1965-1968. In 1970, he unsuccessfully sought disability benefits (38 U.S.C. 1110), alleging a disability based on a nervous condition connected to his service. The VA instead granted his claim…
Date: July 18, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1027
Justia Opinion Summary: The patents share the same specification and are entitled “Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Graft Rejection in Organ Transplant Patients.” They discuss diagnosing or predicting organ transplant status by using methods to detect…
Date: July 15, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1750
Justia Opinion Summary: Lanclos was born in 1982 at the Keesler Air Force Base Medical Center. During childbirth, she was seriously injured and as a result, suffers from Athetoid cerebral palsy. The settlement agreement for Lanclos’s medical…
Date: July 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2106
Justia Opinion Summary: Philips and Thales design and manufacture telecommunications equipment and related technologies, including those related to various generations of wireless networks. Philips and Thales have been engaged in negotiations…
Date: July 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2037
Justia Opinion Summary: LG filed petitions for inter partes review (IPR), each challenging a dependent claim of the 990 patent, which relates to capturing and displaying digital panoramic images. The Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial…
Date: July 8, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1075
Date: July 6, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2067
Justia Opinion Summary: In its ninth administrative review of its antidumping order regarding certain steel nails from China, the Department of Commerce relied on adverse facts available (AFA) in calculating antidumping rates for two mandatory…
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1669
Justia Opinion Summary: Long served in the Air Force, 1969-1976 and spent most of that time as an air traffic control radar repairman, working without ear protection near active runways. In 2009, Long filed a disability compensation claim for…
Date: June 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2209
Justia Opinion Summary: Coca-Cola distributes a Thums Up cola and Limca lemon-lime soda in India and other foreign markets. Meenaxi has distributed a Thums Up cola and a Limca lemon-lime soda in the United States since 2008 and registered the…
Date: June 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1945
Justia Opinion Summary: Bowling and Appling were discharged from military service under conditions other than honorable. Each eventually sought veterans’ benefits. Their discharges would statutorily bar the benefits at issue unless they came…
Date: June 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2303
Justia Opinion Summary: Static sued Leader in Wisconsin for infringing its D400 design patent. The parties entered into a court-approved protective order, under which they could designate certain material produced during discovery as…
Date: June 23, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1888
Justia Opinion Summary: Centripetal sued Cisco for the infringement of 10 patents relating to systems that perform computer networking security functions. Centripetal successfully requested that the case be reassigned to Judge Morgan, who had…
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1660
Justia Opinion Summary: The Claims Court certified a class of landowners who owned property along a railroad corridor that was converted to a recreational trail under the National Trails System Act. Denise and Gordon Woodley, who jointly owned…
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2096
Date: June 22, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1584
Date: June 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1070
Justia Opinion Summary: Novartis markets a 0.5 mg daily dose of fingolimod hydrochloride under the brand name Gilenya, for treating relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, a debilitating immune-mediated demyelinating disease. There is currently…
Date: June 17, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2086
Justia Opinion Summary: The U.S. military sprayed over 17 million gallons of herbicides over Vietnam during “Operation Ranch Hand,” primarily Agent Orange. Concerns about the health effects of veterans’ exposure to Agent Orange led to the…
Date: June 15, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2281
Date: June 15, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2289
Date: June 15, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1508
Date: June 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1969
Justia Opinion Summary: The patents, which cover skin care products and are related as parent and child, are owned by the University of Massachusetts, which sued L’Oréal (S.A. and USA) for infringement. L’Oréal S.A., which is based in France,…
Date: June 10, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1629
Date: June 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1726
Justia Opinion Summary: The Trade Expansion Act authorizes the President to adjust imports if he concurs with a determination by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce “that an article is being imported into the United States in such quantities or…
Date: June 7, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1315
Date: June 7, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1837
Date: June 7, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1838
Date: June 3, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1557
Date: June 3, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1834
Justia Opinion Summary: Pavo's patent is generally directed to “[a] flash memory apparatus having a single body type rotary cover” to protect USB ports from damage and foreign substances. Pavo’s predecessor sued Kingston, alleging infringement.…
Date: June 2, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1131
Justia Opinion Summary: Following floods at Houston’s Buffalo Bayou watershed, the federal government built the Barker and Addicks Dams. By 1963, each dam held a large reservoir with gated outflowing conduits. The Army Corps of Engineers’ 2012…
Date: June 1, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1107
Justia Opinion Summary: . Until 2008, Lehman Brothers, a large investment bank, owned federal trademark registrations for the standard character mark LEHMAN BROTHERS. Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and sold several of its…
Date: June 1, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1517
Justia Opinion Summary: Shure’s 493 patent relates to arrays of microphones and housings for the arrays so that the arrays and housings may be fitted into a drop ceiling grid. The array is configured, in one embodiment, to “include[] a…
Date: May 27, 2022
Docket Number: 18-2140
Justia Opinion Summary: Arthrex sued S&N, alleging infringement. S&N sought inter partes review (IPR). The Patent Trial and Appeal Board found that prior art anticipated several claims. Arthrex challenged the decision on the merits and argued…
Date: May 24, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2114
Justia Opinion Summary: The second administrative review of an antidumping duty determination for large power transformers imported from the Republic of Korea, 19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)(b), was subject to four appeals to the Trade Court, with three…
Date: May 20, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1634
Justia Opinion Summary: Kaufman’s now-expired patent describes and claims methods for using a computer to automatically generate an end-user interface for working with the data in a relational database. Kaufman sued Microsoft, asserting…
Date: May 20, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1866
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009, six-month-old Trystan received vaccines, including DTaP-HepB-IPV. Hours later, Trystan developed a fever and was in pain; he developed a hot lump on his thigh. Trystan’s mother took him to urgent care, where he…
Date: May 20, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1989
Justia Opinion Summary: USAA, a reciprocal inter-insurance exchange organized under Texas law with its principal place of business in San Antonio, owns the four patents, which address the use of a mobile device to capture an image of a bank…
Date: May 19, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1179
Justia Opinion Summary: The patents relate to software-based architecture for supporting cooperative task completion by flexible, dynamic configurations of autonomous electronic agents. Both patents list Martin and Cheyer as inventors. Google…
Date: May 19, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1386
Justia Opinion Summary: The Federal Employees’ Retirement System Act provides early retirement benefits to law enforcement officers (LEOs), 5 U.S.C. 8412(d) after obtaining sufficient "LEO credit," which may be awarded for time served in either…
Date: May 17, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2081
Justia Opinion Summary: Groves served in the Army on active duty, 1970-1971, including service in Vietnam. In 1990, a VA regional office awarded Groves benefits for PTSD, shell fragment wounds, and a nerve injury. In 1998, Groves sought…
Date: May 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1759
Justia Opinion Summary: Bennett sued Atlanta Gas, a Georgia distributor of natural gas, for infringement of Bennett's patent, directed to an anti-icing device for a gas pressure regulator. Atlanta Gas was served with the complaint on July 18,…
Date: May 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1936
Justia Opinion Summary: The 1938 Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act prioritized purchasing products from suppliers that employed blind individuals; 41 U.S.C. 8501–06, establishes a procurement system in which the government procures certain commodities…
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1798
Justia Opinion Summary: On active Army duty in the 1970s, Kennedy fell from a lawnmower and injured his knee. Although no disability was noted at his discharge, Kennedy received service connection for his knee injury in 2000. He later received…
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1998
Justia Opinion Summary: Sound View alleged that Hulu infringed claim 16 of its patent, titled “Method for Streaming Multimedia Information over Public Networks” by its use of (third party) edge servers, which sit between a central Hulu content…
Date: May 9, 2022
Docket Number: 19-2281
Date: April 29, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1640
Justia Opinion Summary: Gasoline producers blend butane into gasoline before selling it because butane makes gasoline more volatile, helping vehicles start more readily in colder temperatures, and butane is cheaper than gasoline. Sunoco’s…
Date: April 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1732
Justia Opinion Summary: Intuitive’s 447 patent relates to robotic surgery systems and describes an improvement over Intuitive’s earlier robotic surgery systems, which allow surgeons to remotely manipulate surgical tools using a controller. The…
Date: April 25, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1679
Justia Opinion Summary: In parallel antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of quartz surface products from China, the Department of Commerce amended the scope of its investigations to prevent producers and exporters in China from…
Date: April 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1747
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Commerce issued an antidumping duty order covering steel nails from Taiwan. The Federal Circuit remanded for further explanation of one aspect of the methodology Commerce had adopted to determine…
Date: April 18, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2147
Justia Opinion Summary: Rickel, a Fire Protection Specialist at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, was Assistant Chief of Training, responsible for determining training requirements, reviewing training records, and ensuring that firefighters’…
Date: April 18, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1760
Justia Opinion Summary: Zipit, a Delaware corporation with a principal place of business in South Carolina, and with all of its employees in South Carolina, is the assignee of the patents-in-suit, which are generally directed to wireless…
Date: April 14, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2230
Justia Opinion Summary: “Red Sun Farms” is the trade name under which various entities do business as “U.S. producers of fresh tomatoes grown in the United States, U.S. importers and resellers of fresh tomatoes from Mexico, and foreign…
Date: April 14, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2232
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1996, the Department of Commerce issued a preliminary dumping determination concerning Mexican tomatoes. Mexican exporters entered into an agreement (19 U.S.C. 1673c(c)) that suspended the investigation, terminated…
Date: April 14, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2265
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1996, the Commerce Department made a preliminary determination that tomatoes were being, or were likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Exporters of fresh tomatoes from Mexico signed an agreement to…
Date: April 14, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1630
Justia Opinion Summary: CSI was awarded a government contract to provide “[a]ir charter services operated by brokers, and various auxiliary services that will be used to support the contract.” After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Date: April 12, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1882
Date: April 12, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2104
Date: April 12, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2354
Date: April 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1864
Justia Opinion Summary: Congestive heart failure can be treated by resynchronization therapy, using electrical pacing leads to help keep the two sides of the heart contracting with regularity and in sync. According to Niazi's 268 patent,…
Date: April 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1609
Justia Opinion Summary: BioVeris, a Roche entity, owns the patents, which concern immunoassays that exploit electrochemiluminescence (ECL). Meso maintains that a prior owner, IGEN, granted it exclusive rights to the patent claims it now asserts…
Date: April 7, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2158
Date: April 5, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1978
Date: April 4, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2013
Justia Opinion Summary: Littelfuse alleged that Mersen infringed its patent, which is directed to a “fuse end cap for providing an electrical connection between a fuse and an electrical conductor.” After the district court construed the patent…
Date: April 1, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2167
Justia Opinion Summary: Genuine Enabling’s patent, titled “Method and Apparatus for Producing a Combined Data Stream and Recovering Therefrom the Respective User Input Stream and at Least One Additional Input Signal,” discloses the technology…
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1367
Justia Opinion Summary: Slaughter served on active duty in the Navy, 1975-1995. In 2008, a VA Regional Office determined that Slaughter, who is righthanded, suffered right ulnar nerve entrapment as a result of his service and awarded a 10%…
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1548
Justia Opinion Summary: StarKist produces two varieties of tuna salad products, albacore and chunk light, each of which is imported as ready-to-eat pouches or lunch-to-go kits. The fish is caught in South American or international waters,…
Date: March 25, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1378
Justia Opinion Summary: The 2010 Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act required the VA to establish two programs to help individuals who provide eligible veterans with personal care services. One program provided assistance to…
Date: March 24, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2163
Justia Opinion Summary: DynaEnergetics’s patent is directed to a perforating gun used in an oil wellbore to penetrate the well lining and surrounding rock formation in order to provide a flow path for oil into the wellbore from the surrounding…
Date: March 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1725
Justia Opinion Summary: The patents-in-suit, titled “System for Location-Based Triggers for Mobile Devices,” describe improved systems for delivering messages to users based on their locations. The shared specification discloses a…
Date: March 23, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1519
Date: March 17, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1958
Justia Opinion Summary: Wolfe, who was enrolled in VA health care, obtained emergency treatment at a non-VA health care facility, incurring expenses of $22,348.25. Her employer-sponsored healthcare contract covered most of the expenses. She was…
Date: March 15, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1415
Justia Opinion Summary: CSIRO, a research arm of the Australian government, owns six U.S. patents, concerning the engineering of plants, particularly canola, to produce specified oils not native to the plants. After the resolution of…
Date: March 15, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1328
Justia Opinion Summary: Martinez-Bodon served on active duty in the Army, 1967-1969. In 2016, he sought benefits for diabetes and for anxiety secondary to his diabetes. At his VA psychiatric examination, he reported: “I can’t sleep well, my…
Date: March 14, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2331
Justia Opinion Summary: Almirall’s patent relates to methods of treating acne or rosacea with dapsone formulations that include an acrylamide/sodium acryloyldimethyl taurate copolymer (A/SA) thickening agent and the solvent diethylene glycol…
Date: March 14, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1473
Date: March 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1334
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Commerce initiated an administrative review of the antidumping order on oil country tubular goods from the Republic of Korea. Commerce generally compares the price at which the subject merchandise is…
Date: March 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2074
Date: March 10, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2278
Date: March 10, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1561
Justia Opinion Summary: Cirrus petitioned for inter partes review of a patent that describes ballistic parachute systems that use a rocket to deploy a parachute, slowing the fall of a crashing aircraft. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board…
Date: March 10, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1870
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1532
Justia Opinion Summary: MPH’s challenged patents share a written description and purport to improve secure messaging between arbitrary hosts (e.g., messaging across local area networks (LANs), private and public wide area networks (WANs), or…
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: 22-108
Justia Opinion Summary: Stratos filed patent infringement complaints in the Western District of Texas against Volkswagen and Hyundai, car distributors that are incorporated in New Jersey and California, respectively, and hence do not “reside”…
Date: March 8, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2008
Justia Opinion Summary: Broadcom’s 583 patent is directed to reducing power consumption in computer systems by “gating” clock signals with circuit elements to turn the signals ON and OFF for downstream parts of the circuit; its 752 patent is…
Date: March 7, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2061
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2002-2004, Mohamad was an Atek shareholder with no direct role in its operations. Mohamad timely 2002 and 2003 tax returns, paying the taxes due on shareholder income of $85,010 and $77,813 respectively. In 2007,…
Date: March 3, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1556
Justia Opinion Summary: The government solicited bids for the provision of food and dining room operation services at the Fort Knox U.S. Army base and awarded the contract to the Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (KOVR). Mitchco,…
Date: March 1, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2342
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2015, the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment invalidating BriarTek’s patent claims, which BriarTek had asserted against DBN in a parallel investigation by the International Trade Commission (ITC). The court…
Date: February 25, 2022
Docket Number: 22-9000
Justia Opinion Summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Circuit issued administrative orders that prohibited public access to the National Courts Building. When the court resumed allowing counsel in the courthouse for argument in…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2205
Justia Opinion Summary: The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board affirmed an examiner’s refusal to register the trademark “TRUMP TOO SMALL” for use on T-shirts. According to Elster’s registration request, the phrase he sought to trademark invokes…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1056
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1385
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, CalBio acquired two facilities and began upgrading them to biomass facilities. CalBio secured Authority to Construct permits that allowed construction and allowed the facilities to generate and sell electricity.…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1625
Justia Opinion Summary: Congress established the Osage reservation in Oklahoma Territory in 1872. Years later, “mammoth reserves of oil and gas” were found. Congress severed the subsurface mineral estate, reserved it to the tribe, and placed…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1832
Justia Opinion Summary: Bannister has been employed by the VA for over two decades. While working as a pharmacist at the Baton Rouge Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, Bannister received a notice of proposed removal under 38…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1896
Justia Opinion Summary: Bryant was a VA police officer, assigned to the Columbus Community Based Out-Patient Clinic in Columbus, Georgia. The VA issued Bryant a notice of proposed removal under 38 U.S.C. 714 based on conduct unbecoming a…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2102
Justia Opinion Summary: Alarm.com filed petitions seeking inter partes reviews (IPRs) under 35 U.S.C. 311–19 of claims of three Vivint patents. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued three final written decisions, which rejected Alarm.com’s…
Date: February 22, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1912
Justia Opinion Summary: The Enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, suffered financial losses in 2008 when the housing market collapsed. The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA),…
Date: February 22, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2190
Justia Opinion Summary: The Enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, suffered financial losses in 2008 when the housing market collapsed. The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA),…
Date: February 18, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1962
Justia Opinion Summary: VAS leased a facility that housed “ICE” in Warwick, Rhode Island. In 2017, the General Services Administration (GSA) issued a request for lease proposals for a facility to house ICE in Rhode Island. VAS offered the…
Date: February 16, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2149
Justia Opinion Summary: Dr. Standley was employed by the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration. Standley contends that over several years he sought to ensure that the Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System…
Date: February 15, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2024
Date: February 11, 2022
Docket Number: 18-1976
Date: February 11, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1481
Justia Opinion Summary: Intuitive filed three inter partes review (IPR) petitions to challenge the patentability of Ethicon’s patent, entitled “Drive Interface for Operably Coupling a Manipulatable Surgical Tool to a Robot.” The Patent Trial…
Date: February 10, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2106
Justia Opinion Summary: Adapt’s patents-in-suit claim methods of treating opioid overdose by intranasal administration of a naloxone formulation, and devices for intranasal administration. Naloxone—the active ingredient in Adapt’s NARCAN® Nasal…
Date: February 10, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1649
Justia Opinion Summary: Junker, the named inventor of the 839 Design Patent, titled “Handle for Introducer Sheath,” sued MedComp for infringement of the sole claim of the D839 patent. The parties disputed whether a letter sent before the…
Date: February 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1381
Justia Opinion Summary: Aspen sought compensation for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to deposit contractual payments in the account designated in its contract to outfit U.S. military health and dental clinics in Germany. The…
Date: February 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1568
Justia Opinion Summary: In litigation between Uniloc and Apple, Uniloc unsuccessfully sought to seal matters of public record, such as quotations of Federal Circuit opinions and a list of patent cases Uniloc had filed. The Federal Circuit…
Date: February 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2194
Justia Opinion Summary: Ash challenged the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) denial of his application for disability retirement benefits. Ash asserted disparate treatment based on race and prior protected activity. The Merit Systems…
Date: February 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2369
Justia Opinion Summary: Shinyaku and Sarepta executed an Agreement concerning “a potential business relationship relating to therapies for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.” During the Agreement’s term the parties would “not…
Date: February 4, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2011
Justia Opinion Summary: Wi-LAN’s 145 patent is directed to allocating bandwidth in a wireless communication system. The 757 patent, while unrelated to the 145 patent, is directed to a similar subject matter and purports to improve signal…
Date: February 4, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2070
Justia Opinion Summary: Laser-based systems for measuring distances, useful for many purposes, are best known for helping autonomous cars sense their surroundings. Velodyne markets products incorporating such systems. Quanergy, which also…
