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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.