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CASE OF THE WEEK Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2025-1228, -1252 (Fed. Cir. July 8, 2025) Our Case of the Week focuses on obviousness. More particularly, the decision included a lengthy discussion on a…
CASE OF THE WEEK Eye Therapies, LLC v. Slayback Pharma, LLC , Appeal No. 2023-2173 (Fed. Cir. June 30, 2025) In its only precedential patent opinion last week, the Federal Circuit reviewed construction of the transitional claim phrase “consisting…
CASE OF THE WEEK Eye Therapies, LLC v. Slayback Pharma, LLC , Appeal No. 2023-2173 (Fed. Cir. June 30, 2025) In its only precedential patent opinion last week, the Federal Circuit reviewed construction of the transitional claim phrase “consisting…
CASE OF THE WEEK Cisco Systems, Inc. et al. v. K.Mizra LLC , Appeal Nos. 2022-2290, 2023-1183 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 19, 2024) In the Federal Circuit’s only precedential action this week, a panel of the Court declined to dismiss an appeal after the parties…
CASE OF THE WEEK EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google LLC , Appeal No. 2023-1101 (Fed. Cir. June 3, 2024) In the Federal Circuit’s only precedential patent opinion this week, the court addressed issues of infringement and admissibility that arose after a jury…
CASE OF THE WEEK LKQ Corporation v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Appeal No. 2021-2348 (Fed. Cir. May 21, 2024) In a rare en banc opinion, the Federal Circuit overruled decades of prior precedent concerning the standard to evaluate the obviousness…
CASE OF THE WEEK Copan Italia SPA v. Puritan Med. Prods. Co. LLC , Appeal No. 2022-1943 (Fed. Cir. May 14, 2024) The Federal Circuit’s only precedential opinion concerning a patent case this week had nothing to do with patent law. Instead, it…
CASE OF THE WEEK Pfizer Inc. v. Sanofi Pasteur Inc. , Appeal Nos. 2019-1871, -1873, -1875, -1876, -2224 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 5, 2024) This week’s Case of the Week mostly resolves an appeal filed five years ago, following decisions from the PTAB in IPRs…
CASE OF THE WEEK Dexcom, Inc. v. Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc. , Appeal No. 2023-1795 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 3, 2024) In our Case of the Week, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of DexCom’s motion to…
CASE OF THE WEEK K-Fee System GmbH v. Nespresso USA, Inc. , Appeal No. 2022-2042 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 26, 2023) In an appeal from a district court judgment of noninfringement, the Federal Circuit reversed the underlying claim construction ruling. The case…
CASE OF THE WEEK VLSI Technology LLC v. Intel Corporation , Appeal No. 2022-1906 (Fed. Cir. December 4, 2023) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit vacated an approximately $2.2 billion damages award against appellant Intel Corporation…
CASE OF THE WEEK Penumbra, Inc. v. Rapidpulse, Inc. , IPR2021-01466, Paper 34 (P.T.A.B. March 10, 2023) In a PTAB decision that was recently designated precedential, the Board made two important decisions concerning provisional patent applications.…
