The Federal Circuit recently ruled in favor of the Patent Office asserting the rarely used doctrine of prosecution laches against serial patent applicant Gil Hyatt. Hyatt had brought an action in district court to order the Patent…
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In Packet Intelligence LLC, v. Netscout Systems, Inc. the Federal Circuit reversed a jury determination for pre-suit damages, and vacated an enhancement of such damages, for Netscout’s infringement of U.S. Patent 6,665,725, U.S.…
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The Bicentennial Man is out of luck.* The Patent Office recently issued a ruling that only a human can be an inventor.
The application at issue listed “DABUS” as the sole inventor. DABUS is a collection of neural nets designed…
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In William Grecia v. Samsung Electronics (Fed. Cir. 2019) the Federal Circuit affirmed a finding of invalidity for U.S. Patent 8,533,860 (the ‘860 patent) under 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶2 (indefinite). The invalidly determination for…
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The Federal Circuit has clarified what written description is sufficient for a PCT application to qualify as a priority document for a U.S. Patent application. In Hologic, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., No. 2017-1389 (Fed. Cir.…
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