The CAFC issued a decision today affirming in part and reversing in part a district court ruling that had found four patents covering digital picture frame technology ineligible under Section 101.

“The Federal Circuit noted that ‘there is no basis for using res judicata or collateral estoppel to prevent a judge from reconsidering an earlier ruling.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...

Liability and damages are separate legal questions, but too often only lip service is paid to that distinction, which leads to a sequencing error that can be ...

“The USPTO has let the regime invoke its own misconduct as an excuse for nonuse, rather than treating that misconduct as the disqualifying fact it should be.” On December 31, 1959, Calixto Lopez led ...

“We…reject Woodway’s attempt to recast a factual dispute as a claim construction issue to obtain de novo review.” On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

“[E]ven if the court had agreed to correct the alleged typo…[it] could simply have applied the reasoning of Ruschig and found that the original filing provided no ‘blaze marks’ for the proposed ...

“Here, [the Book of Wisdom doctrine] was ‘used to impute knowledge of later-occurring events affecting the value of the license that were unforeseeable at the time of negotiating.'” – Federal Circuit ...

“Golf clubs sit among the most heavily patented consumer goods categories in the world…. When an automaker enters this category, it isn’t entering a green field.” When the world’s best golfers descend ...

Yesterday, WIPO published a report on the global patent landscape for generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies ...

“The Federal Circuit explained that ‘a petitioner may not rely on a vague, generic, and/or meandering petition and later fault the Board for failing to understand what the petition really meant.’” The ...