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Federal Circuit: Check Depositing Too Abstract for Patent
October 28th, 2025
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…
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Congress Reintroduces the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act and PREVAIL Act
October 23rd, 2025
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…
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Federal Circuit Vacates Injunction against Narcolepsy Drug Research
October 23rd, 2025
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…
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Federal Circuit Finds Mobile Wallet Claims Indefinite
October 21st, 2025
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Federal Circuit Invalidates “Sterile” Patent Claims
October 16th, 2025
The Federal Circuit has affirmed decisions by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) invalidating all challenged claims of two patents for a sterilized chlorhexidine product in an applicator package for disinfecting skin. The Federal Circu…
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Federal Circuit: Body Weight Limitations Are Obvious
August 8th, 2025
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a district court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) following a civil action by ImmunoGen seeking to obtain a patent after an unsuccessful ex parte appeal of a patent ap…
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Federal Circuit Says ITC Ruling is Too Narrow
July 30th, 2025
The Federal Circuit has overturned a decision by the International Trade Commission (ITC or Commission) on a polycrystalline diamond compound owned by US Synthetic. The case is US Synthetic Corp. v. International Trade Commission. US Synthetic Corp.…
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Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB Despite Erroneous Claim Construction
July 18th, 2025
The Federal Circuit has found that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) construed patent claims erroneously but that the error was harmless. HD Silicon Solutions LLC (“HDSS”) appealed from a decision of the PTAB holding claims 1–7…
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Senators Re-Introduce RESTORE Patent Rights Act
June 17th, 2025
Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) have reintroduced the Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act. The Act, first introduced in July of 2024, would restore the rebu…
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Federal Circuit Affirms Patent Board Decision for Intel
June 3rd, 2025
In a non-precedential decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) that certain claims of Qualcomm’s U.S. Patent No. 8,838,949 (titled “Direct Scatter Loading of Executable Software Im…
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