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The Federal Circuit has affirmed a $3.5 million district court jury award in favor of Dynamite Marketing, Inc. for infringement of its US Patent No. D751,877. As the court explained, In early 2013, Alexander Shlaferman (“Shlaferman”), the princip… Read More

The Federal Circuit has reversed in part and affirmed in part a district court decision finding Sonos’s patent claims for controlling media playback systems invalid. The court reversed the district court’s decision that Google was prejudiced by S… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) in the first appeal of a derivation proceeding under the America Invents Act (AIA) litigated at the Board. The case is Global Health Solutions LLC v. S… Read More

The Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) ruling that claims of DexCom, Inc.’s patent for implantable glucose sensors were unpatentable as obvious. As the court explained, This appeal involves implantable g… Read More

The Fourth Circuit has affirmed a ruling from a North Carolina district court dismissing trade secret claims, copyright claims, and other claims brought by the Taiwanese company Sysco against its American distributor. The case is Sysco Machinery Corp… Read More

The Federal Circuit has overturned a $125 million patent judgment against Medtronic’s CoreValve unit for allegedly infringing a Colibri Heart Valve LLC patent. The court found that Colibri’s arguments and amendments barred Colibri’s ass… Read More

The Federal Circuit has vacated an obviousness ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) that invalidated patent claims to methods of treating eye redness. The court found that the Board used an erroneous construction of the phrase… Read More

The Federal Circuit reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB or Board) determination that Carl Zeiss failed to prove that patent claims to X-ray imaging systems incorporating projection magnification were invalid as anticipated by a scienti… Read More