2022 Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
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Date: December 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1838
Justia Opinion Summary: The District of Utah uses a “Standard Protective Order.” Pursuant to that order, Alaska designated certain source code files as “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” which precluded MFA’s in-house counsel…
Date: December 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2035
Date: December 28, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1231
Date: December 28, 2022
Docket Number: 22-2271
Date: December 23, 2022
Docket Number: 22-2268
Date: December 22, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1595
Justia Opinion Summary: Pirfenidone is a drug used to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a chronic, irreversible lung disease. There is no cure for IPF. Patients living with the disease face an average survival of two-five years. The…
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1974
Justia Opinion Summary: Hanser served in the Army from 1979-1999. In 2012, he was assigned 20% service-connected disability ratings, effective July 2011, for his left leg radiculopathy and his bilateral arm radiculopathy. In 2014 and 2015,…
Date: December 21, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1394
Date: December 20, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1001
Justia Opinion Summary: Mosaic manufactures a money-clip wallet called the Smart Money Clip II (SMCII). Ridge makes the Ridge Wallet, which is nearly identical to the SMCII. Each company accused the other of patent infringement. Mosaic also…
Date: December 19, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1973
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, Cranford, on active duty in the Army, was charged with possessing and using Spice, an unregulated intoxicant, in violation of a lawful general order. Captain Lease recommended that Cranford be tried by general…
Date: December 19, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2244
Justia Opinion Summary: Plastipak’s patents, each entitled “Lightweight Plastic Container and Preform” claim priority to U.S. Application 11/749,501, filed in 2007, which was a continuation-in-part of Application 11/368,860, filed in 2006. Each…
Date: December 19, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1854
Justia Opinion Summary: DiMasi, then a 47-year-old nurse-practitioner student, received an influenza vaccine on December 4, 2012. She was admitted to the hospital on December 5, 2012, released the next day, and then readmitted on December 8.…
Date: December 16, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1092
Justia Opinion Summary: ADASA’s patent relates to methods and systems for commissioning radio-frequency identification (RFID) transponders (RFID tags), which are used, like barcodes, to identify and track objects by encoding data electronically…
Date: December 14, 2022
Docket Number: 22-2165
Date: December 12, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1818
Date: December 12, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1819
Date: December 8, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1298
Date: December 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1836
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Energy (DOE) issued a solicitation for Technical Security, Communications Security, Cyber, Analysis, and Security Administration, designated as a small business set-aside. The size limit for interested…
Date: December 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2218
Justia Opinion Summary: Google previously petitioned for inter partes review (IPR) of Hammond’s 483 patent, which is related to and shares the same specification as the 816 patent, disclosing a communication system that allows a communication…
Date: December 5, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1965
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) awarded Supreme a contract to provide food to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. During negotiations concerning deliveries to forward operating bases, Supreme submitted inflated cost…
Date: December 5, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2001
Justia Opinion Summary: Dr. Edenfield is a VAMC anesthesiologist. VAMC physicians had obtained informed consent for endoscopic procedures on the day of the procedure. A 2016 policy allowed mid-level practitioners (nurse practitioners, physician…
Date: December 2, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2171
Justia Opinion Summary: Gudinas served in the Army, 1966-1968. In 2005, the VA determined that Gudinas suffered from service-connected PTSD and awarded him a 50 percent disability rating plus a 10 percent disability rating for service-connected…
Date: December 2, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1586
Date: November 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2008
Justia Opinion Summary: From December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019, the federal government partially shut down because of a lapse in appropriations. Plaintiffs continued to work as “excepted employees” who work on “emergencies involving the…
Date: November 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2021
Justia Opinion Summary: From December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019, the government partially shut down because of a lapse in appropriations. Border Patrol Agents continued to work as “excepted employees” who work on “emergencies involving the…
Date: November 30, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1171
Justia Opinion Summary: Treehouse sued Valve for infringement of its patent, which discloses a method of collecting data from an information network in response to user choices of a plurality of users navigating character-enabled network sites…
Date: November 29, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1140
Justia Opinion Summary: Correctional officers at the Michigan federal prison typically work eight-hour shifts. Prison shifts are scheduled in advance; hospital shifts are scheduled differently because they arise only when an inmate is…
Date: November 18, 2022
Docket Number: 22-2133
Date: November 17, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1360
Justia Opinion Summary: Rhone served in the military 1950-1953 and 1959-1988. In 1986, Rhone and JoAnne, divorced; the Florida Divorce Decree stated that JoAnne would receive 40% of Rhone’s military retirement benefits. In 1988, Rhone left…
Date: November 16, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2262
Justia Opinion Summary: CUPP’s patents share a common name and priority date and address the problem of malicious attacks aimed at mobile devices. They generally concern systems and methods for waking a mobile device from a power-saving mode…
Date: November 15, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1826
Justia Opinion Summary: VLSI sued Intel for infringing a patent, directed to “[a] technique for alleviating the problems of defects caused by stress applied to bond pads” of an integrated circuit. The district court construed the term “force…
Date: November 14, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1321
Justia Opinion Summary: Sleep Number’s patents describe systems and methods that purport to adjust the pressure in an air mattress “in less time and with greater accuracy” than previously known.” In inter partes reviews (IPR), the Patent Trial…
Date: November 9, 2022
Docket Number: 19-2454
Justia Opinion Summary: McIntosh, employed by the Department of Defense, was responsible for approving travel expenses for government contracts. McIntosh, on several occasions refused to approve invoices and refused to provide contract…
Date: November 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2311
Justia Opinion Summary: SoClean, a medical-device company that produces sanitizing devices for CPAP machines, owns the 195 registration for the configuration of replacement filters for its sanitizing devices. SoClean sued its former…
Date: November 8, 2022
Docket Number: 22-162
Justia Opinion Summary: Aire sued Apple for patent infringement in the Western District of Texas in October 2021. In April 2022, Apple moved for transfer to the Northern District of California. Apple submitted a declaration from an Apple…
Date: November 7, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2340
Date: November 4, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1498
Justia Opinion Summary: Uniloc brought multiple infringement suits against Google concerning patents directed to innovations in multimedia content delivery, IT security, high-resolution imaging, network connectivity, video conferencing, and…
Date: November 4, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1555
Justia Opinion Summary: Uniloc sued Motorola for infringement of a patent that concerns pairing a telephone with another device and using the other device to make a telephone call using the telephone’s cellular capabilities. Motorola alleged…
Date: November 3, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1879
Date: November 1, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2093
Justia Opinion Summary: Finjan sued ESET for infringement. The four asserted (expired) patents are part of a family of patents directed to systems and methods for detecting computer viruses in a “Downloadable” through a security profile.…
Date: October 31, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1078
Date: October 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2150
Date: October 28, 2022
Docket Numbers: 22-1071, 21-2150
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiffs own four design patents on hoverboards and sued the appellants claiming that products sold by the appellants infringed the plaintiffs’ patents. The plaintiffs obtained a temporary restraining order,…
Date: October 17, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2350
Justia Opinion Summary: IBM sued Zillow for infringement of several patents related to graphical display technology. A user of the system draws a shape on a map to select that area of the map, and the claimed system then filters and displays…
Date: October 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2086
Justia Opinion Summary: Hekmati, a Marine Corps veteran, completed two tours of service in Iraq from 2001-2005 and worked as a military contractor between 2005-2011, stationed in Afghanistan. On his way back to the U.S., Hekmati went to Iran,…
Date: October 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2228
Justia Opinion Summary: A named inventor of four related patents sued Google for infringement. The patents generally describe ways in which individuals and businesses can exchange information. As individuals go about their day, they may record…
Date: September 30, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1316
Date: September 30, 2022
Docket Number: 22-153
Justia Opinion Summary: Bel Power sued, alleging that Monolithic infringes Bel’s patents by selling certain power modules to original equipment manufacturers and other distributors and customers that use the products in their own electronic…
Date: September 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2121
Justia Opinion Summary: Merck’s 708 patent describes sitagliptin dihydrogen phosphate (sitagliptin DHP), which belongs to the class of dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DP-IV) inhibitors that can be used for treating non-insulin-dependent (Type 2)…
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2133
Justia Opinion Summary: The Indiana Southwestern Railway Company sought to abandon railway easements, in which the owners had reversionary interests. The Surface Transportation Board (49 U.S.C. 10903) issued a Notice of Interim Trail Use and…
Date: September 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2167
Justia Opinion Summary: Cooperative’s ’452 patent relates to systems and methods of structuring a peer-to-peer (P2P) dynamic network for distributing large files, namely videos and video games. In prior art systems, video streaming was…
Date: September 27, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1942
Justia Opinion Summary: Provisur’s patent describes a method and system for “classifying slices or a portion cut from a food product according to an optical image of the slice.” Some food products, like bacon or cold cuts, are packaged and sold…
Date: September 26, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1579
Justia Opinion Summary: Johnson was a Dyess Air Force Base firefighter from 2017-2019. In 2018, Johnson’s mother came to live with Johnson's family. She took around 13 pills to treat health issues; Johnson was taking “seven or eight” pills. …
Date: September 23, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2205
Justia Opinion Summary: In the tenth administrative review of the antidumping order on steel nails from China, the U.S. Department of Commerce found that Pioneer did not cooperate to the best of its ability with Commerce’s request for…
Date: September 20, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1321
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Veterans Affairs rating schedule standardizes the evaluation of how severely diseases and injuries resulting from military service impair veterans’ earning capacity, 38 C.F.R. 4.1. The rating schedule…
Date: September 15, 2022
Docket Number: 19-1483
Justia Opinion Summary: Polaris’s 993 patent, titled “Control Component for Controlling a Semiconductor Memory Component in a Semiconductor Memory Module,” explains that the control component can send both address signals and control signals…
Date: September 14, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1537
Justia Opinion Summary: Sawstop requested patent term adjustments (PTA) under 35 U.S.C. 154(b)(C), which grants day-for-day extensions for delays attributable to appellate review by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board or by a Federal court in a…
Date: September 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1757
Justia Opinion Summary: Air Force veteran Skaar was exposed to ionizing radiation while participating in a cleanup operation in Palomares, Spain following a 1966 midair collision involving a plane carrying nuclear weapons. In 1998, he was…
Date: September 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2172
Justia Opinion Summary: Domestic manufacturers or distributors who imported steel products subject to an ad valorem “national security” tariffs, 19 U.S.C. 1862, sought exclusions from the tariff. Domestic steel producers objected to those…
Date: September 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2324
Justia Opinion Summary: During the GATT Bubble–a 1995 application “rush” by applicants who wanted their patent claims to be governed by the pre-35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2) patent term, Hyatt filed the 938 application, which claims priority to…
Date: September 8, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1145
Date: September 7, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1967
Justia Opinion Summary: Arendi sued LG for infringement. The District of Delaware’s rules required Arendi to “specifically identify the accused products and the asserted patent(s)” and to produce "an initial claim chart relating each accused…
Date: September 6, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2176
Justia Opinion Summary: The importers sought refunds of estimated duties they deposited with U.S. Customs and Border Protection for tariffs that the U.S. Trade Representative retroactively rescinded after granting exclusion requests submitted…
Date: August 31, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1903
Justia Opinion Summary: INVT alleged that the importation and sale of personal devices, such as smartphones, smartwatches, and tablets, infringed INVT's patents. An ALJ determined that the accused devices did not infringe claims 3 and 4 of the…
Date: August 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1489
Justia Opinion Summary: Commerce initiated a second administrative review of antidumping duties for certain passenger-vehicle and light-truck tires from China and selected two mandatory respondents, Junhon and Haohua as “the top two publicly…
Date: August 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2077
Justia Opinion Summary: Carter served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1979-1980; he was identified as having damaged a government vehicle. According to the military police (MP), Carter became combative during his apprehension and…
Date: August 26, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2099
Justia Opinion Summary: BMI’s 096 patent is generally directed to a method and apparatus for conformal radiation therapy of tumors using a pre-determined radiation dose. To account for the three-dimensionality of tumors, the gantry of a…
Date: August 23, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2113
Justia Opinion Summary: Killian’s application relates to a system “for determining eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance [SSDI] benefits through a computer network.” This process entails looking up information from a Federal…
Date: August 19, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1875
Date: August 18, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2342
Justia Opinion Summary: Since 2014 Par has manufactured and sold Vasostrict®, an FDA-approved vasopressin injection product used to treat patients with critically low blood pressure. The Orange Book identifies Par’s 785 and 209 patents as…
Date: August 17, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1016
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, Click-to-Call sued several entities (including Ingenio) for infringement of its patent. Ingenio filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) challenging the 16 asserted claims and one additional claim. While…
Date: August 16, 2022
Docket Number: 22-145
Justia Opinion Summary: Centripetal filed an infringement complaint against PAN, which then filed an inter partes review (IPR) petition for one patent and a post-grant review (PGR) petition for another. While the petitions were pending, the…
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…
