CAFC Updates

The University of California appeals a decision of the PTAB determining there was no interference-in-fact between the University’s pending application (relating to the use of a CRISPR-Cas9 system for...

ParkerVision appeals from three final written decisions of the PTAB in related inter partes review proceedings, in which the Board held certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,091,940 (generally...

Roxane and others submitted Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs) seeking FDA approval to market generic versions of Ampyra, a medication Acorda markets pursuant to FDA approval, containing the active...

Nobel appeals from the decision of the PTAB in an inter partes review (“IPR”) holding certain claims of U.S. Patent 8,714,977 directed to dental implants unpatentable. Addressing issues including...

Detroit Athletic Co. (“DACo”) appeals from a decision of the TTAB affirming the PTO’s refusal to register DETROIT ATHLETIC CO. for sports apparel retail services. In that decision, the...

Actavis filed an ANDA for a generic counter-part of Zubsolv (approved by the FDA for treatment of opioid dependence), accompanied by a Paragraph IV certification, leading to this Hatch-Waxman...

Samsung and Apple filed a petition to institute an inter partes review of certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,039,033 relating to systems that accesses information from a wide...

Gilbert Hyatt, a named inventor on more than 70 issued patents and approximately 400 pending patent applications, sued the United States Patent and Trademark Office alleging that the...

Intellectual Ventures appeals from a grant of summary judgment by the District Court that T-Mobile and the other defendants have not infringed U.S. Patent No. 6,640,248 relating to an...

Appellant Worlds Inc. appeals the final decisions of the PTAB invalidating three patents (generally relating to the computer-generated display of avatars in a virtual world) in three inter...