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USA - September 2 2015 CAFC determined that the Board’s opinion failed to provide an adequate predicate that could be used to evaluate its anticipation rejection of claims…
USA - August 28 2015 The Court explained that claim preclusion did not apply to bar relitigation of the invalidity issue for the supplemental damages period because…
USA - August 27 2015 The District Court erred in limiting the terms “frangible section” and “tamper evident bridge” to require at least two score lines based on the…
USA - August 24 2015 The district court’s judgment of no invalidity, following a jury verdict that the asserted claims were not anticipated by or obvious over the prior…
USA - August 24 2015 The Court did not need to determine whether the Board committed a procedural error by relying on an argument that was first raised in the…
USA - August 24 2015 The broadest reasonable interpretation standard is a longstanding practice in USTPO proceedings. Interference proceedings are adjudicatory but they…
USA - August 24 2015 While 35 U.S.C. § 324(e) provides that the “[t]he determination by the Director [of the USPTO] whether to institute a post-grant review … shall be…
USA - August 14 2015 CAFC found that the Board properly refused to register a mark without a disclaimer of a specific term included in the mark. Applicant argued that a…
USA - August 13 2015 CAFC held that, when more than one actor is involved in practicing the steps of a claimed method, there can be direct infringement if all of the…
USA - August 13 2015 CAFC held that a party having all substantial rights to a patent, regardless of whether or not the patent was expired when the party acquired the…