Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Claim Construction That Is in Accord With Prior Federal Circuit Construction In Knowles Electronics LLC v. Cirrus Logic, Inc., Appeal No. 2016-2010, the Federal Circuit upheld the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s claim construction in an inter partes reexamination, where the Board applied the broadest reasonable... read more →

Documents Incorporated by Reference in Their Entirety Are Not Limited by Later Potentially Limiting Statements In Paice LLC v. Ford Motor Company, Appeal Nos. 2017-1387, -1388, -1390, -1457, -1458, the Federal Circuit held that a prior art document was incorporated by reference in its entirety into a patent specification, despite... read more →

Extrinsic Evidence May Be Used to Interpret an Anticipating Reference In Monsanto Technology LLC v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours, Appeal No. 2017-1032, the Federal Circuit held that extrinsic evidence can be used to find that an allegedly anticipating reference necessarily includes relevant claim limitations. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.... read more →

Redundant Ground in an IPR Was Not Outside the Instituted Grounds In CRFD Research, Inc. v. Matal, Appeal No. 2016-2198, the Federal Circuit held that the Board erred in performing its obviousness analysis when determining whether a single prior art reference rendered the claims at issue obvious. (more…)