by John Evans, Ph.D. | Jan 12, 2023 | Design Patents, Federal Circuit Appeal
By John Evans and Josh Gold-Quiros – Big changes to design patent invalidity law may be coming. A pending IPR appeal challenges the Federal Circuit’s 40-year-old obviousness formula as inconsistent with the Supreme Court’s rejection of “a rigid rule that limits...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 15, 2022 | Estoppel, Federal Circuit Appeal
By Dylan Burdelik,* Sachin Patel, and Matt Johnson – In a recent decision, 25 F.4th 1035 (Fed. Cir. 2022), the Federal Circuit dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an appeal of the PTAB’s decision that estopped a Petitioner from maintaining a third IPR that...
by Carl Kukkonen | May 23, 2022 | Federal Circuit Appeal, Real Party in Interest
By Carl Kukkonen – The Federal Circuit, in Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. Bennett Regul. Guards, Inc., 21-1759, in an opinion by Judge STOLL, dismissed Atlanta Gas’s appeal for lack of jurisdiction. In this case, Atlanta Gas filed an IPR which was instituted and...
by David Maiorana | May 6, 2022 | Federal Circuit Appeal
By David Linden and Dave Maiorana – Willis Electric Co., Ltd. (“Willis Electric”) owns U.S. Patent No. 10,222,037 (the “’037 Patent”), titled “Decorative lighting with reinforced wiring.” The ’037 Patent claims a decorative lighting design involving a strand of...
by Matthew Johnson | Feb 22, 2022 | Estoppel, Federal Circuit Appeal
By Ana Teixeira and Matt Johnson – The patent fight between Caltech and Broadcom/Apple made waves this month when the Federal Circuit vacated the $1.1 billion infringement award that Caltech had won in district court. To PTAB practitioners, however, the sea...
by Emily Tait | Feb 3, 2022 | Federal Circuit Appeal
By Emily Tait – The Federal Circuit recently issued another decision in a longstanding dispute between Willis Electric Co. and Polygroup Ltd. involving two patents owned by Willis (U.S. Patent Nos. 8,454,186 and 8,454,187) directed to lighted artificial...
