Fed Circuit News Today

En banc petition concerning obviousness-type double-patenting rejected by the Court of Appeals | Decision on patent term adjustment has been closely followed by pharma companies, NYIPLA, and AIPLA.

Study finds that about half of all inequitable conduct cases were for FDA-regulated products

Heating system in e-cigarette at centre of dispute | Appellate court reverses Georgia court’s decision on infringement and attorney costs | Tobacco company faces renewed litigation.

Uniloc found to have standing to file patent infringement lawsuits | Licensing clause gave investor the right to sublicense patents if there was a loan default

Alice test sinks IBM patents related to graphical displays | Decision “illustrates why patent eligibility should not be determined at the pleadings stage” | New York Intellectual Property Law Association| Zillow Group.

Cybersecurity company wanted to force the USPTO to consider rehearings of inter partes reviews | Window for such director reviews is not ‘nailed shut’ says judge | Case differed from Arthrex.

Inventor of computer search system denied option to amend patent | US Court of Appeals affirms PTAB decision.

US court rules out Thaler’s AI machine as inventor | Only humans can qualify as inventors for patents, says judge | Precedential decision contrasts with that of South Africa in 2021.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) reviews which found that three wireless audio recording patents owned by Zaxcom were invalid, while also upholding narrowed substitute claims. 

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has dismissed Vox Populi Registry’s bid to register its stylised ‘.sucks’ as a trademark.