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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

The Federal Circuit has reversed a summary judgment ruling from a district court, finding that patent claims directed to the idea of depositing a check using a handheld device are abstract and thus unpatentable. The case is United Services Automobile… Read More

On May 1, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), with Representatives Kevin Kiley (R-CA) and Scott Peters (D-CA), officially reintroduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA). PERA would eliminate judicial exceptions to patent e… Read More

The Federal Circuit has reversed in part and vacated in part a district court’s injunction that blocked Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals from conducting clinical research and seeking regulatory approval for expanded uses of its once-nightly narcolepsy dr… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a district court’s decision that patent claims to mobile wallet payment systems owned by Fintiv were invalid as indefinite under 35 U.S.C. 112(6). The case is Fintiv, Inc. v. PayPal Holdings, Inc. Fintiv sued PayPal… Read More