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.

“Requiring disclosure to the Office of all real parties in interest to the request will promote complete and efficient evaluation of whether estoppel applies, thereby protecting patent owners from ...

“After Comet Technologies, practitioners litigating parallel DTSA and CUTSA claims should think carefully before dismissing state-law claims to ‘streamline’ a case for trial.” The U.S. Court of ...

“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 ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision today in Woodway USA, Inc. v. LifeCore Fitness, Inc., vacating a grant of summary judgment of noninfringement in favor of ...

“The Federal Circuit held that ‘for [prosecution] disclaimer to attach, disavowals must be both clear and unmistakable.’” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision ...

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 ...