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While U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has attracted plenty of attention over the Federal Circuit's repeated rebukes of his transfer decisions, the judge told Law360 in a wide-ranging interview last week that guidance from the appeals court has been helpful, and he's paying little mind to the glaring spotlight on him.

The Federal Circuit wiped out inventor Larry Junker's $1.25 million win against two medical device companies, finding Thursday that his patented catheter insertion design was unenforceable because it was offered for sale more than a year before he applied for the design patent.

A Federal Circuit judge seemed perplexed Tuesday by what he called a "peculiar" Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling that allowed Intel Corp. to pursue additional challenges to the same claims in a Qualcomm patent the board had already upheld in other challenges lodged by the chipmaker.

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP secured Rachel Maddow's win over defamation claims from far-right media outlet One America News and helped Bob Dylan defeat claims that a co-writer on his 1976 album "Desire" was owed more than $7 million from the music icon's 2020 sale of his song catalog, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

A Federal Circuit judge said Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court justices created "a trap for the unwary" by keeping alive a doctrine barring inventors from challenging the validity of their own patents and narrowing when it can be applied, while weighing a remand order from the high court in a patent validity dispute between Minerva and Hologic.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has granted 66% of all petitions in the first two months of fiscal year 2022, an increase over the institution rate for the prior fiscal year, while the number of petitions being filed is holding steady, PTAB statistics show.

A Federal Circuit panel on Tuesday seemed open to Alarm.com's argument that August 2020 decisions by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director that barred it from seeking ex parte reexaminations of three Vivint Inc. patents it was accused of infringing should be subject to judicial review.

A Federal Circuit panel on Tuesday seemed open to Alarm.com's argument that August 2020 decisions by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director that barred it from seeking ex parte reexaminations of three Vivint Inc. patents it was accused of infringing should be subject to judicial review.

IBM Corp. maintained its long-running status as the top patent owner in 2021 while Samsung clocked in close behind, but patent grants to companies that notched a spot on the list highlighting the top 300 patent owners released Thursday were largely down.

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday denied Cisco's bid to rehear a panel decision reinstating a $57 million enhanced damages award against it in the networking giant's eight-year saga with SRI International Inc. over cybersecurity patents.