Eileen McDermott

1 week ago | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott

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1 week ago | ipwatchdog.com | Tanner Shae |Eileen McDermott

“The Federal Circuit’s opinion preserves the PTAB’s invalidation of the core claims of Avago’s video streaming patent but reopens the door for Netflix to challenge four remaining dependent claims.”On Wednesday, June 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued an opinion affirming in part and vacating in part the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) decision regarding Avago Technologies’ U.S. Patent No. 8,646,014.

1 week ago | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |Stephen Schreiner

“PERA 2025 still says that unmodified human genes as they exist in the human body are not patent eligible, but prior versions of the bill said that isolation of genes was considered a modification.”Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) today signed onto the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025 as co-sponsors with Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE).

1 week ago | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn |Steve Brachmann |Stephen Schreiner

“The petition argued that ‘[p]atents would provide little protection if confined to the strict, literal terms of their claims; ‘[o]utright and forthright duplication is a dull and very rare type of infringement,’ and ‘[t]o prohibit no other would place the inventor at the mercy of verbalism.’” The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to grant a number of IP petitions, including one in which a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled in October 2024 that...

1 week ago | ipwatchdog.com | Eileen McDermott |Gene Quinn

“The large number and vast scope of the patents asserted in the district court litigation… weighs against discretionary denial, as the Board is better suited to review a large number of patents involving diverse subject matter.” – Director Discretionary Denial Decision in IPR2025-00341 Following the release of 11 Director Review decisions on discretionary denial on Thursday, June 12, Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart issued two additional decisions late Friday, both of which denied the...