Split Fed Circ News Today

A split US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a lower court decision that US chemical company BASF is able to be sued for infringing an Australian government agency’s patents related to fish food.

American software company Autodesk will need to face a rival’s patent infringement suit after the US Court of appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a split decision that a district court wrongly invalidated parts of a computer modelling patent.