CAFC Updates

Treehouse owns U.S. Patent 8,180,858, which discloses a method of collecting data from an information network in response to user choices of a plurality of users navigating character-enabled network sites…

Uniloc sued Motorola for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,161,134 which district court dismissed because Uniloc had granted a license and the existence of the license deprived Uniloc of standing. …

Plaintiffs own four design patents on hoverboards. Plaintiffs brought suit against appellants (who sell Gyroor-branded hoverboards) claiming that products sold by appellants infringed plaintiffs’ patents. The district court entered a…

IBM sued Zillow for infringement of seven patents, including U.S. Patent No. 9,158,789 (related to coordinated geospatial, list-based and filter-based selection) and U.S. Patent No. 7,187,389 (related to methods of…

Mr. Weisner sued Google LLC for infringement, asserting four patents. Google moved to dismiss, arguing 1) that the asserted patent claims are ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and 2)…

Merck owns U.S. Patent 7,326,708, which describes sitagliptin dihydrogenphosphate, a dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (“DP-IV”) inhibitor, which can be used for treating non-insulin-dependent (i.e., Type 2) diabetes. Mylan petitioned for inter partes…

Cooperative sued Kollective for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 9,432,452 relating to systems and methods of structuring a peer-to-peer (P2P) dynamic network for distributing large files, namely videos and video…

Weber petitioned for inter partes review (“IPR”) of claims 1–14 of Provisur’s U.S. Patent No. 6,997,089 relating to methods and systems for classifying slices of a food product using an…

Polaris filed a complaint accusing NVIDIA of infringing certain claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,532,505 and  7,405,993, and NVIDIA responded by filing IPR petitions challenging certain claims in those patents.…

Sawstop appeals the District Court’s denial of its challenge to the PTO’s interpretation of  35 U.S.C. § 154(b)(1)(C)(iii) and the denial of Sawstop’s requests for adjustment to the term of U.S.…