Patent invalidations in district court that are still being appealed do not justify turning away Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions on that same intellectual property, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal said in a director review.
The start of the Federal Circuit's May oral arguments on Monday threw the judges right into the depths of claim construction, but while picking apart LED patents, the most difficult parts of the case ended up being courtroom procedure, namely: when to stop talking.
A North Carolina federal jury on Friday said independent service organization TEC Holdings didn't misappropriate any of Philips Medical Systems' trade secrets for X-rays and other imaging, but that it should pay up to $4.2 million for Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives' subcommittee on intellectual property told U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal on Thursday that her attempts to shift policy are stepping into Congress' territory and are otherwise concerning.
U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's new counsel from the New Civil Liberties Alliance on Friday urged the chiefs of both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit to let a different appeals court review whether the 95-year-old is fit to stay on the bench, taking issue with her not being assigned cases and with allegations that she has refused to cooperate with the investigation, according to letters obtained and authenticated by Law360.