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HOLOGIC, INC. v. MINERVA SURGICAL, INC. Before Stoll, Clevenger, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Despite cancelling a claim prior to assignment, assignor estoppel still applied to bar…
ARTHREX, INC. v. SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. Before Moore , Reyna, and Chen. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : During vacancies of Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Commissioner of Patents may…
NIAZI LICENSING CORPORATION v. ST. JUDE MEDICAL S.C., INC. Before Taranto, Bryson, and Stoll. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Summary: Providing examples in the claim language and written description may provide…
ST. JUDE MEDICAL, LLC v. SNYDERS HEART VALVE LLC Before Newman, O’Malley, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The broadest reasonable interpretation of a claim must be considered in light of the specification. St.…
WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC., v. SASSO Before Newman, Schall, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. Summary: A federal court properly exercises its discretion to abstain from deciding declaratory…
BIOGEN MA INC. v. EMD SERONO, INC. Before Newman, Linn, and Hughes. Appeal from the District Court of the District of New Jersey. Summary: A known method of administering a known product made by a new process is not novel. Biogen sued Serono and other…
FITBIT, INC. v. VALENCELL, INC. Before Newman, Dyk, and Reyna. Appeal from Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Notwithstanding its rejection of the Petitioner’s proposed claim construction, the PTAB may not end an obviousness inquiry without…
Written by : Mak Tsunozaki, Ph.D. & Kendall Loebbaka ARTHREX, INC. v. SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. Before Prost, Newman, Lourie, Dyk, Moore, O’Malley, Reyna, Wallach, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, and Stoll. Petition for rehearing en banc of a panel decision of an…
