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The Federal Circuit in In re Cray, Inc., Appeal No. 2017-129 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 21, 2017), has provided extensive guidance to district courts on the meaning of an alleged infringer's [...]

In Rivera v. International Trade Commission, Appeal No. 2016-1841 (Fed. Cir. May 23, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the ITC's decision invalidating Rivera's patent under the written description requirement of [...]

In Aylus Networks, Inc. v. Apple Inc., Appeal No. 2016-1599 (Fed. Cir. May 11, 2017), the Federal Circuit ruled that a patent owner's statements during an inter partes review (IPR), [...]

Unquestionably, the narrower a patent's claims, the more likely they are to pass muster under 35 U.S.C. § 101. But if you have an invention with broad applicability, how broadly [...]

The Federal Circuit in Icon Health & Fitness, Inc. v. Strava, Inc., Appeal No. 2016-1475 (Feb. 27, 2017), made several interesting points and revealed a disagreement among four of its [...]

In Xilinx Inc. v. Papst Licensing GmbH & Co. KG, Appeal No. 2015-1919 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 15, 2017), the Federal Circuit applied the usual test for in personam jurisdiction, in [...]

Licensees Covidien LP, Medtronic PLC, and Medtronic, Inc., failed to obtain any relief, at least so far, in federal court or at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) because [...]

Patent owners will applaud the Federal Circuit's latest pronouncement on divided infringement, inducement of infringement, and claim definiteness under 35 U.S.C. § 112. Eli Lilly & Co. v. Teva Parenteral [...]

In Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. v. Athena Automation Ltd., Appeal Nos. 2015-1726, 1727 (Sept. 23, 2016), the panel majority, consisting of Judges Lourie (the opinion's author) and Stoll, differed [...]

In Veritas Technologies LLC v. Veeam Software Corp., Appeal No. 2015-1894 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 30, 2016), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB's conclusion of obviousness but vacated its denial of [...]

When we last discussed patent laches here, the Federal Circuit had voted to rehear, en banc, SCA Hygiene Products' patent infringement claim, which invoked a laches defense. At that time, [...]

Providing a rare glimpse into a Federal Circuit judge's views on the rules of professional conduct governing conflicts of interest, on February 26, 2016, Federal Circuit Judge William Bryson, sitting [...]

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of Epidemiology, "The authors have conducted an analysis to validate a computer model that uses age-specific human immunodeficiency [...]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles including "Why Hillary Clinton Needs to Be Two-Faced," by Jonathan Rauch in the October 23, 2016 issue, "Winning? Women's Problem Is Actually Deciding to Run" in the October 25 issue, and "The Meaning of Bob Dylan's Silence," by Adam Kirsch in the October 26 issue.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the June 4, 2013 issue including "Keeping Children Active and Safe," "What Makes a Jewish Mother," and "Growing Left, Growing Right."