Every decision we've summarized from United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed a petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection Board. The dismissal occurred because the petitioner failed to pay the required docketing fee within the time permitted by court rules.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court judgment finding patent claims invalid. The court held that the asserted claims were indefinite under Section thirty-five of the United States Code, Section one hundred twelve.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision in a nonprecedential order. The court reviewed challenges to patent validity arising from inter partes review proceedings without issuing a written opinion.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision in an inter partes review proceeding. The court issued a per curiam judgment without providing a written opinion.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Merit Systems Protection Board's decision in a federal employment dispute involving the United States Postal Service. The court issued a per curiam order without providing a written explanation for its ruling.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the Merit Systems Protection Board's dismissal of John Suggs's appeal for lack of jurisdiction. The court held that disputes over severance pay and debt garnishment do not constitute appealable adverse actions under the relevant federal statute.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's rejection of a patent application for a cleated athletic shoe as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103. The court held that the claimed design, which features a concave depression to facilitate foot movement during exercise, was an unpatentable combination of prior-art references.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a takings claim filed by landowners who were prohibited from mining coal under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. The court held that the claim was time-barred because it accrued in 2016 when the government determined the coal had a value of zero, well before the lawsuit was filed in 2023.
The Federal Circuit reversed the district court's exclusion of a patent damages expert report, ruling that the lower court misapplied precedent regarding royalty bases. The court held that using unaccused virtual machines as a royalty base was permissible where a causal connection existed between the patented technology and the increased capacity of those machines.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a district court's judgment of no infringement, holding that patent claims listing elements separately require distinct physical structures. The court also upheld the construction of a term as means-plus-function, limiting the patent scope to specific disclosed structures that the accused device did not possess.