In the Final Written Decision in L&P Property Management Company v. National Products Inc., the PTAB construed the terms “molded docking station,” “molded wall,” and “molded apparatus body” as product-by-…
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After a jury found infringement of claims of two patents, and awarded damages, the Federal Circuit held the patent claims invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in another case, whereupon the court in Prism Technologies, LLC v.…
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Patent claims directed to managing teleconferences over hybrid networks, i.e., PSTN and Internet, recited an unconventional combination of elements, said the court in Meetrix, IP, LLC v. Citrix Systems, Inc., No. 1-16-CV…
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In Oil-Dri Corp. v. Nestlé Purina Petcare Co., No. 15-cv-1067 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 2, 2017), an Illinois district court held that 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) does not estop an accused infringer from challenging the validity of cl…
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In Honeywell International Inc. v. Mexichem Amanco Holding S.A. De C.V., No. 2016-1996, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 13909 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 1, 2017), the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a PTAB decision, holding that an obvio…
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has denied institution of CBM patent review, as a claimed trading turret system did not constitute a financial activity. Cloud9 Tech. LLC v. IPC Systems, Inc., CBM2017-00037 (P…
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A patent assignee was found to have standing to assert a patent assigned to it, even though the patent assignor retained both a conditional right to mandate a return assignment, and to receive 50% of any enforcement proc…
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The PTAB recently declined to institute CBM on US8189566 titled “Software based trading turret.” According to the patent specification, “[a] trading turret system is a specialized telephony switching sy…
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Having brought a lawsuit for a patent who claims are found invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101, and the Alice abstract idea test, is the plaintiff’s conduct “objectively baseless” justifying an award of attorney fees un…
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The Federal Circuit in Nobelbiz v. Global Connect recently reversed a district court for relying on the “plain and ordinary meaning” of claim terms rather than offering construction because the parties disputed the s…
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