Federal Circuit Affirms That D Three Enterprises Priority Patent Filing Does Not Support Genus Claims
A Priority Patent Application is Only as Good as the Claim It Supports Federal Circuit affirms district court’s summary judgment regarding effective filing dates and invalidity in view of intervening prior art (largely, the infringer's [...]
California Jury Finds Big For Apple But Jury Instructions On Article of Manufacture Lacking
Larger takeaway from Samsung v. Apple may be reinforcement of design patent importance in protecting business interests Jury finds that Apple is entitled to $538.6 million from Samsung infringement of design and utility patents Federal [...]
Core Wireless v. LG: A Guiding Star For Interface Software Patent Eligibility
Lower Court decision in Local Intelligence shines light on Federal Circuit Core Wireless decision on interface software patent eligibility In Core Wireless, non-abstract display interface software claims survived Alice challenge before Federal Circuit on Alice Step [...]
Ten Things To Know About the Federal Circuit Decision in Oracle v. Google
Google’s use of Declaring Code and SSO of 37 Java API packages was not fair as a matter of law In Oracle v. Google, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the district [...]
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms “Blurred Lines” Copyright Infringement
Failure to make a trial motion for judgment as a matter of law precluded appellate consideration of whether elements additional to a musical style “transform the nature of the copyright claim” into a copyright-eligible application [...]
Symantec Federal Circuit Affirms Patent Ineligible Software Claims
Don’t Count on a Berkheimer Do-Over Lower court’s conclusion that claim elements were not well-understood, routine and conventional is a question of fact, to which Federal Circuit must give clear error deference In Intellectual Ventures [...]