CAFC Updates

Appellant Cai appeals an opinion of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) cancelling registration of his mark “WU DANG TAI CHI GREEN TEA” due to a likelihood of...

Ericsson appeals the final written decision of the PTAB, finding that certain claims of Intellectual Ventures’ U.S. Patent No. 5,602,831 (relating to increasing the reliability of a wireless communications...

This is an appeal from a rejection in initial examination of Maatita’s design patent application for the design of an athletic shoe bottom. The examiner rejected the application’s single claim as...

This appeal derives from a multitude of patent infringement actions that plaintiffs-appellants Rembrandt filed in the mid-2000s against dozens of cable companies, cable equipment manufacturers, and broadcast networks....

BSG sued BuySeasons for infringement of several patents related to systems and methods for indexing information stored in wide access databases. BuySeasons sought dismissal of the suit based on...

Core Wireless brought an action for infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,477,151 and 6,633,536 and appeals the district court’s judgment with respect to one claim from each patent. Both...

Power Integrations filed petitions for a writ of mandamus. The petitions challenge the decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board denying the institution of inter partes review of...

Click-to-Call (“CTC”) contends that the PTAB erred in determining that an inter partes review (“IPR”) petition challenging claims of CTC’s patent relating to an anonymous telephone communication system was...

Luminara appeals from three inter partes review (“IPR”) decisions, in which the PTAB held   unpatentable a total of 31 claims across Luminara’s three patents relating to making...

GKN Automotive owns U.S. Patent No. 8,215,440 relating to a drivetrain for a four-wheel drive vehicle that is made up of primary and secondary drivetrains. In inter partes review,...