Tag:Federal Circuit Court of Appeals

SCOTUS to Decide Case About Attorney Fees in Denied Patent Litigation

Last week during the Supreme Court’s first round of oral arguments of its new session, all eyes were on a group of cases about...

Haynes and Boone Secures ITC Patent Infringement Judgment

Haynes and Boone secured a judgment before the International Trade Commission that ACON Laboratories, Inc. and Hangzhou, China-based ACON Biotech Co. imported products into the...

SCOTUS: Wording Change Does Not Amount to Legal Change in Patent Case

The U.S. Supreme Court took less than two months to decide a nuanced patent case about whether the America Invents Act changed existing law...

USPTO Clarifies Patentability of ‘Abstract Ideas’

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is giving its patent examiners new marching orders for determining whether certain patent applications that contain abstract ideas...

Granular Statute Language Could Have Broad Implications for Patent Seekers

The U.S. Supreme Court had its plate full of noteworthy cases for last week’s oral arguments. Among the most newsmaking were a potential re-interpretation...

Will the Phillips Standard Change the Game on Patent Claims?

Arguing patent claims before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is going to resemble district courts a little more, and that could have big...

The Difference Two Decades Make

The thriving startup economy in Denver and Boulder has been a rising tide that raised a number of ships, including patent law practices like...

Overseas Lost Profits Fair Game for Patent Damages — in Limited Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court had a chance last month to vastly broaden the amount of damages that global companies could recover for sales that...