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Every decision we've filed under Intellectual Property.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal in an intellectual property dispute between Clear Imaging Research LLC and Google LLC. The dismissal was granted by mutual agreement of the parties under the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court ruling that estopped Valve Corporation from asserting invalidity grounds in a patent infringement suit. The appellate court found the district court relied on insufficient evidence and failed to adequately account for hindsight bias in its estoppel analysis.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction sought by Boston Scientific against Stryker regarding induced infringement of a medical device patent.
The Sixth Circuit denied a petition for review challenging the Securities and Exchange Commission's sanctions against a securities broker. The court held that the petitioner failed to exhaust his constitutional arguments before the agency, barring judicial review of those claims.
The Tenth Circuit reversed a district court dismissal, holding that the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act does not strip federal courts of jurisdiction over suits brought by the United States against state environmental agencies. The court further ruled that the Colorado River abstention doctrine did not justify deferring to parallel state proceedings in this context.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision finding a patent for a fluid mixing device unpatentable as obvious. The court held that the patent claims did not require ramps to have an inclined plane shape and that the Board properly found a motivation to combine prior art references.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed the appeal filed by Micron Technology, Inc. against Yangtze Memory Technologies Company, Ltd. The court granted a joint motion to realign the parties and set a new briefing schedule for the related appeal.
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit vacated a district court's grant of summary judgment and remanded the case because the lower court denied the plaintiff an opportunity to conduct discovery before ruling on the motion.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board by mutual agreement of the parties. Each side was ordered to bear its own costs in this nonprecedential order.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court dismissal of a patent infringement claim. The court held that the patent claims required receiving a combined password, not separate passcode and token components.