In Sierra Wireless v. Sisvel S.P.A., Appeals 2023-1059, -1085, -1089, -1125 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 10, 2025), the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a PTAB decision that had found claims 1, 2, and 6-8 of U.S. Patent No. 7,869,396 (“the ’396
In Lynk Labs v. Samsung Electronics, the Federal Circuit determined that “a published patent application can be deemed prior art in an IPR as of the application’s filing date.” The Court affirmed the PTAB’s determination that challenged claims of
In a decision that underscores the importance of prior art in the context of AI patents, the PTAB recently issued a final decision in Tesla, Inc. v. Autonomous Devices, LLC, IPR2023-01173 (PTAB January 3, 2025), invalidating all challenged claims of
To offer expert testimony from the perspective of a skilled artisan in a patent case—like for claim construction, validity, or infringement—a witness must at least have ordinary skill in the art. Our precedent is clear—nothing more is required.
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In ParkerVision, Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc., No. 2022-1755, -2221 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 6, 2024) (“ParkerVision III”), the Federal Circuit held that, due to the difference in burdens of proof in PTAB IPR proceedings and in district court cases, collateral
In Voice Tech Corp v. Unified Patents, LLC, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s IPR decision that the challenged claims of Voice Tech’s patent were unpatentable for obviousness, determining that the PTAB’s findings were supported by substantial evidence. At
In Virtek Vision Int’l. ULC v. Assembly Guidance Systems, Inc. the Federal Circuit reversed in part the PTAB’s final written decision in an IPR petition filed by Assembly Guidance, on the basis that the petition failed to identify a motivation
As discussed in a recent post, On May 21, 2024, the Federal Circuit issued its en banc decision in LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Tech. Operations LLC, significantly impacting design patent law. The court overturned the long-standing Rosen-Durling test,
In LKQ v. GM, a May 21, 2024 en banc decision on an appeal of an IPR final written decision determining that the challenged claim of GM’s U.S. Design Patent No. D797,625 (directed to the design for a vehicle front
Can a defendant who prevails in an exceptional patent infringement suit by invalidating the patent in inter partes review (IPR) recover its associated Patent Office-related attorney’s fees? A split three-judge panel of the Federal Circuit recently said no in Dragon