IPWatchdog

Federal Circuit Vacates PTAB Decision, Finding Board Erred in Requiring Motivation to Combine

The Federal Circuit on Friday vacated and remanded a final written decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board concluding ...
JD Supra

Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Obviousness Rulings On Merck’s Oral Cladribine MS Regimen And Clarifies The “By Another” Prior Art Standard

On October 30, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed two inter partes review decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) invalidating claims in two of Merck ...
JD Supra

Federal Circuit Clarifies Limits of Issue Preclusion Between IPRs and District Courts

The Federal Circuit’s recent decision last week in Inland Diamond Prods. Co. v. Cherry Optical Inc., offers an important reminder for patent litigators: a PTAB’s factual finding in an inter partes ...
IPWatchdog

Federal Circuit Reverses PTAB on Issue Preclusion, Finds Smart Mobile Patent Claims Unpatentable

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Wednesday reversed in part, vacated in part, and remanded a final ...
Yahoo

DHS Says Recording or Following Law Enforcement 'Sure Sounds Like Obstruction of Justice'

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says recording or following federal law enforcement "sure sounds like obstruction of justice," despite federal circuit courts repeatedly ruling that such ...
Morningstar

Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Vacates Infringement Judgment and Damages Award in Dispute between Daiichi Sankyo and Seagen

On December 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the Federal Circuit) reversed a decision from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas that found Seagen Inc’s U.S.
The National Law Review

Federal Circuit Courts Split on NLRB’s Expanded Remedies

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