CAFC Updates

Amazon petitioned for inter partes review of (IPR) of AC Technologies S.A.’s U.S. Patent No. 7,904,680  (relating generally to data access and management), presenting three grounds. At institution, the...

Amerigen appeals from the decision of the PTAB in an inter partes review holding that certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,858,650 are not unpatentable as obvious. The ‘650...

WesternGeco brought a patent infringement suit against ION Geophysical for infringement of four U.S. Patents relating to controlling the movement and positioning of long streamers towed by a ship...

Hewlett Packard and Teradata sought inter partes review of certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,597,812, relating to systems and methods for providing lossless data compression and decompression that...

Marco Guldenaar Holding B.V. appeals the final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirming the rejection of certain claims of U.S. Patent Application No. 13/078,196 under 35...

Wright Medical appeals the District Court’s denial of its motion for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285.  In 2015, Spineology sued Wright, alleging that Wright’s  X-REAM® product infringes...

VirnetX appeals from two final written decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board finding that Apple had demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that certain claims of...

Ezra Ventures filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) relating to a generic version of Novartis’s branded multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya®. Novartis filed an infringement suit against Ezra in...

This case involves patents directed to the compound everolimus, the active ingredient in Zortress® and Afinitor®, which can be used to treat certain cancers and prevent rejection in kidney and...

Jack Henry and eleven Texas banks appeal the ruling of the District Court dismissing a declaratory judgment action against Plano Encryption Technologies LLC (“PET”). The district court held...