CAFC Updates

Teva appeals the of the District Court’s decision invalidating as obvious all asserted claims of patents directed to COPAXONE, a product marketed for treatment of patients with relapsing forms...

Yeda challenges the PTAB’s final written decisions finding the claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,232,250, 8,399,413, and 8,969,302 (relating to COPAXONE, a treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis) unpatentable...

Woodbolt Distributors, LLC requested that the PTO reexamine U.S. Patent No. 8,067,381 directed to increasing athletes’ endurance and owned by Natural Alternatives International, Inc. (“NAI”). The PTO ordered inter partes reexamination,...

Appellant Real Foods sought registration of two marks: “CORN THINS,” for “crisp-bread slices predominantly of corn, namely popped corn cakes”; and “RICE THINS,” for “crispbread slices primarily made of...

 Data Engine Technologies (“DET”) filed suit against Google and appeals the district court’s entry of judgment on the pleadings holding that the asserted claims of DET’s U.S. Patent Nos....

Appellant Roche owns U.S. Patent No. 5,643,723 directed to methods for detecting the pathogenic bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (“MTB”), and sued Appellee Cepheid who makes and sells “Xpert® MTB/RIF...

Gutride Safier LLP (“Gutride”), a law firm representing AlphaCap Ventures, LLC (a non-capitalized, non-practicing entity based in California) in the district court litigation, appeals the award of fees under...

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (“WARF”) sued Apple Inc. for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,781,752 relating a specific prediction technique for computer processors that execute a computer program’s...

Years after Bennett first sued Atlanta Gas for infringing its U.S. Patent No. 5,810,029 relating to an ice preventing device for use with an outside gas pressure regulator, the...

Power Integrations sued Fairchild Semiconductor for infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,212,079 and 6,538,908 relating to switching regulators in power supply controller chips used in power supplies, such...