2022 Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 501 - 875 of 875
Date: May 24, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2114
Justia Opinion Summary: The second administrative review of an antidumping duty determination for large power transformers imported from the Republic of Korea, 19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)(b), was subject to four appeals to the Trade Court, with three…
Date: May 20, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1634
Justia Opinion Summary: Kaufman’s now-expired patent describes and claims methods for using a computer to automatically generate an end-user interface for working with the data in a relational database. Kaufman sued Microsoft, asserting…
Date: May 20, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1866
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009, six-month-old Trystan received vaccines, including DTaP-HepB-IPV. Hours later, Trystan developed a fever and was in pain; he developed a hot lump on his thigh. Trystan’s mother took him to urgent care, where he…
Date: May 20, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1989
Justia Opinion Summary: USAA, a reciprocal inter-insurance exchange organized under Texas law with its principal place of business in San Antonio, owns the four patents, which address the use of a mobile device to capture an image of a bank…
Date: May 19, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1179
Justia Opinion Summary: The patents relate to software-based architecture for supporting cooperative task completion by flexible, dynamic configurations of autonomous electronic agents. Both patents list Martin and Cheyer as inventors. Google…
Date: May 19, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1386
Justia Opinion Summary: The Federal Employees’ Retirement System Act provides early retirement benefits to law enforcement officers (LEOs), 5 U.S.C. 8412(d) after obtaining sufficient "LEO credit," which may be awarded for time served in either…
Date: May 17, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2081
Justia Opinion Summary: Groves served in the Army on active duty, 1970-1971, including service in Vietnam. In 1990, a VA regional office awarded Groves benefits for PTSD, shell fragment wounds, and a nerve injury. In 1998, Groves sought…
Date: May 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1759
Justia Opinion Summary: Bennett sued Atlanta Gas, a Georgia distributor of natural gas, for infringement of Bennett's patent, directed to an anti-icing device for a gas pressure regulator. Atlanta Gas was served with the complaint on July 18,…
Date: May 13, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1936
Justia Opinion Summary: The 1938 Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act prioritized purchasing products from suppliers that employed blind individuals; 41 U.S.C. 8501–06, establishes a procurement system in which the government procures certain commodities…
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1798
Justia Opinion Summary: On active Army duty in the 1970s, Kennedy fell from a lawnmower and injured his knee. Although no disability was noted at his discharge, Kennedy received service connection for his knee injury in 2000. He later received…
Date: May 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1998
Justia Opinion Summary: Sound View alleged that Hulu infringed claim 16 of its patent, titled “Method for Streaming Multimedia Information over Public Networks” by its use of (third party) edge servers, which sit between a central Hulu content…
Date: May 9, 2022
Docket Number: 19-2281
Date: April 29, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1640
Justia Opinion Summary: Gasoline producers blend butane into gasoline before selling it because butane makes gasoline more volatile, helping vehicles start more readily in colder temperatures, and butane is cheaper than gasoline. Sunoco’s…
Date: April 29, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1732
Justia Opinion Summary: Intuitive’s 447 patent relates to robotic surgery systems and describes an improvement over Intuitive’s earlier robotic surgery systems, which allow surgeons to remotely manipulate surgical tools using a controller. The…
Date: April 25, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1679
Justia Opinion Summary: In parallel antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of quartz surface products from China, the Department of Commerce amended the scope of its investigations to prevent producers and exporters in China from…
Date: April 21, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1747
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Commerce issued an antidumping duty order covering steel nails from Taiwan. The Federal Circuit remanded for further explanation of one aspect of the methodology Commerce had adopted to determine…
Date: April 18, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2147
Justia Opinion Summary: Rickel, a Fire Protection Specialist at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, was Assistant Chief of Training, responsible for determining training requirements, reviewing training records, and ensuring that firefighters’…
Date: April 18, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1760
Justia Opinion Summary: Zipit, a Delaware corporation with a principal place of business in South Carolina, and with all of its employees in South Carolina, is the assignee of the patents-in-suit, which are generally directed to wireless…
Date: April 14, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2230
Justia Opinion Summary: “Red Sun Farms” is the trade name under which various entities do business as “U.S. producers of fresh tomatoes grown in the United States, U.S. importers and resellers of fresh tomatoes from Mexico, and foreign…
Date: April 14, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2232
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1996, the Department of Commerce issued a preliminary dumping determination concerning Mexican tomatoes. Mexican exporters entered into an agreement (19 U.S.C. 1673c(c)) that suspended the investigation, terminated…
Date: April 14, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2265
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1996, the Commerce Department made a preliminary determination that tomatoes were being, or were likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Exporters of fresh tomatoes from Mexico signed an agreement to…
Date: April 14, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1630
Justia Opinion Summary: CSI was awarded a government contract to provide “[a]ir charter services operated by brokers, and various auxiliary services that will be used to support the contract.” After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Date: April 12, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1882
Date: April 12, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2104
Date: April 12, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2354
Date: April 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1864
Justia Opinion Summary: Congestive heart failure can be treated by resynchronization therapy, using electrical pacing leads to help keep the two sides of the heart contracting with regularity and in sync. According to Niazi's 268 patent,…
Date: April 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1609
Justia Opinion Summary: BioVeris, a Roche entity, owns the patents, which concern immunoassays that exploit electrochemiluminescence (ECL). Meso maintains that a prior owner, IGEN, granted it exclusive rights to the patent claims it now asserts…
Date: April 7, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2158
Date: April 5, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1978
Date: April 4, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2013
Justia Opinion Summary: Littelfuse alleged that Mersen infringed its patent, which is directed to a “fuse end cap for providing an electrical connection between a fuse and an electrical conductor.” After the district court construed the patent…
Date: April 1, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2167
Justia Opinion Summary: Genuine Enabling’s patent, titled “Method and Apparatus for Producing a Combined Data Stream and Recovering Therefrom the Respective User Input Stream and at Least One Additional Input Signal,” discloses the technology…
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1367
Justia Opinion Summary: Slaughter served on active duty in the Navy, 1975-1995. In 2008, a VA Regional Office determined that Slaughter, who is righthanded, suffered right ulnar nerve entrapment as a result of his service and awarded a 10%…
Date: March 30, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1548
Justia Opinion Summary: StarKist produces two varieties of tuna salad products, albacore and chunk light, each of which is imported as ready-to-eat pouches or lunch-to-go kits. The fish is caught in South American or international waters,…
Date: March 25, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1378
Justia Opinion Summary: The 2010 Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act required the VA to establish two programs to help individuals who provide eligible veterans with personal care services. One program provided assistance to…
Date: March 24, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2163
Justia Opinion Summary: DynaEnergetics’s patent is directed to a perforating gun used in an oil wellbore to penetrate the well lining and surrounding rock formation in order to provide a flow path for oil into the wellbore from the surrounding…
Date: March 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1725
Justia Opinion Summary: The patents-in-suit, titled “System for Location-Based Triggers for Mobile Devices,” describe improved systems for delivering messages to users based on their locations. The shared specification discloses a…
Date: March 23, 2022
Docket Number: 22-1519
Date: March 17, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1958
Justia Opinion Summary: Wolfe, who was enrolled in VA health care, obtained emergency treatment at a non-VA health care facility, incurring expenses of $22,348.25. Her employer-sponsored healthcare contract covered most of the expenses. She was…
Date: March 15, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1415
Justia Opinion Summary: CSIRO, a research arm of the Australian government, owns six U.S. patents, concerning the engineering of plants, particularly canola, to produce specified oils not native to the plants. After the resolution of…
Date: March 15, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1328
Justia Opinion Summary: Martinez-Bodon served on active duty in the Army, 1967-1969. In 2016, he sought benefits for diabetes and for anxiety secondary to his diabetes. At his VA psychiatric examination, he reported: “I can’t sleep well, my…
Date: March 14, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2331
Justia Opinion Summary: Almirall’s patent relates to methods of treating acne or rosacea with dapsone formulations that include an acrylamide/sodium acryloyldimethyl taurate copolymer (A/SA) thickening agent and the solvent diethylene glycol…
Date: March 14, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1473
Date: March 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1334
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Commerce initiated an administrative review of the antidumping order on oil country tubular goods from the Republic of Korea. Commerce generally compares the price at which the subject merchandise is…
Date: March 11, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2074
Date: March 10, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2278
Date: March 10, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1561
Justia Opinion Summary: Cirrus petitioned for inter partes review of a patent that describes ballistic parachute systems that use a rocket to deploy a parachute, slowing the fall of a crashing aircraft. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board…
Date: March 10, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1870
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1532
Justia Opinion Summary: MPH’s challenged patents share a written description and purport to improve secure messaging between arbitrary hosts (e.g., messaging across local area networks (LANs), private and public wide area networks (WANs), or…
Date: March 9, 2022
Docket Number: 22-108
Justia Opinion Summary: Stratos filed patent infringement complaints in the Western District of Texas against Volkswagen and Hyundai, car distributors that are incorporated in New Jersey and California, respectively, and hence do not “reside”…
Date: March 8, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2008
Justia Opinion Summary: Broadcom’s 583 patent is directed to reducing power consumption in computer systems by “gating” clock signals with circuit elements to turn the signals ON and OFF for downstream parts of the circuit; its 752 patent is…
Date: March 7, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2061
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2002-2004, Mohamad was an Atek shareholder with no direct role in its operations. Mohamad timely 2002 and 2003 tax returns, paying the taxes due on shareholder income of $85,010 and $77,813 respectively. In 2007,…
Date: March 3, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1556
Justia Opinion Summary: The government solicited bids for the provision of food and dining room operation services at the Fort Knox U.S. Army base and awarded the contract to the Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (KOVR). Mitchco,…
Date: March 1, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2342
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2015, the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment invalidating BriarTek’s patent claims, which BriarTek had asserted against DBN in a parallel investigation by the International Trade Commission (ITC). The court…
Date: February 25, 2022
Docket Number: 22-9000
Justia Opinion Summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Circuit issued administrative orders that prohibited public access to the National Courts Building. When the court resumed allowing counsel in the courthouse for argument in…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2205
Justia Opinion Summary: The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board affirmed an examiner’s refusal to register the trademark “TRUMP TOO SMALL” for use on T-shirts. According to Elster’s registration request, the phrase he sought to trademark invokes…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1056
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1385
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, CalBio acquired two facilities and began upgrading them to biomass facilities. CalBio secured Authority to Construct permits that allowed construction and allowed the facilities to generate and sell electricity.…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1625
Justia Opinion Summary: Congress established the Osage reservation in Oklahoma Territory in 1872. Years later, “mammoth reserves of oil and gas” were found. Congress severed the subsurface mineral estate, reserved it to the tribe, and placed…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1832
Justia Opinion Summary: Bannister has been employed by the VA for over two decades. While working as a pharmacist at the Baton Rouge Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, Bannister received a notice of proposed removal under 38…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1896
Justia Opinion Summary: Bryant was a VA police officer, assigned to the Columbus Community Based Out-Patient Clinic in Columbus, Georgia. The VA issued Bryant a notice of proposed removal under 38 U.S.C. 714 based on conduct unbecoming a…
Date: February 24, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2102
Justia Opinion Summary: Alarm.com filed petitions seeking inter partes reviews (IPRs) under 35 U.S.C. 311–19 of claims of three Vivint patents. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued three final written decisions, which rejected Alarm.com’s…
Date: February 22, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1912
Justia Opinion Summary: The Enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, suffered financial losses in 2008 when the housing market collapsed. The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA),…
Date: February 22, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2190
Justia Opinion Summary: The Enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, suffered financial losses in 2008 when the housing market collapsed. The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA),…
Date: February 18, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1962
Justia Opinion Summary: VAS leased a facility that housed “ICE” in Warwick, Rhode Island. In 2017, the General Services Administration (GSA) issued a request for lease proposals for a facility to house ICE in Rhode Island. VAS offered the…
Date: February 16, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2149
Justia Opinion Summary: Dr. Standley was employed by the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration. Standley contends that over several years he sought to ensure that the Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System…
Date: February 15, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2024
Date: February 11, 2022
Docket Number: 18-1976
Date: February 11, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1481
Justia Opinion Summary: Intuitive filed three inter partes review (IPR) petitions to challenge the patentability of Ethicon’s patent, entitled “Drive Interface for Operably Coupling a Manipulatable Surgical Tool to a Robot.” The Patent Trial…
Date: February 10, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2106
Justia Opinion Summary: Adapt’s patents-in-suit claim methods of treating opioid overdose by intranasal administration of a naloxone formulation, and devices for intranasal administration. Naloxone—the active ingredient in Adapt’s NARCAN® Nasal…
Date: February 10, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1649
Justia Opinion Summary: Junker, the named inventor of the 839 Design Patent, titled “Handle for Introducer Sheath,” sued MedComp for infringement of the sole claim of the D839 patent. The parties disputed whether a letter sent before the…
Date: February 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1381
Justia Opinion Summary: Aspen sought compensation for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to deposit contractual payments in the account designated in its contract to outfit U.S. military health and dental clinics in Germany. The…
Date: February 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1568
Justia Opinion Summary: In litigation between Uniloc and Apple, Uniloc unsuccessfully sought to seal matters of public record, such as quotations of Federal Circuit opinions and a list of patent cases Uniloc had filed. The Federal Circuit…
Date: February 9, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2194
Justia Opinion Summary: Ash challenged the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) denial of his application for disability retirement benefits. Ash asserted disparate treatment based on race and prior protected activity. The Merit Systems…
Date: February 8, 2022
Docket Number: 21-2369
Justia Opinion Summary: Shinyaku and Sarepta executed an Agreement concerning “a potential business relationship relating to therapies for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.” During the Agreement’s term the parties would “not…
Date: February 4, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2011
Justia Opinion Summary: Wi-LAN’s 145 patent is directed to allocating bandwidth in a wireless communication system. The 757 patent, while unrelated to the 145 patent, is directed to a similar subject matter and purports to improve signal…
Date: February 4, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2070
Justia Opinion Summary: Laser-based systems for measuring distances, useful for many purposes, are best known for helping autonomous cars sense their surroundings. Velodyne markets products incorporating such systems. Quanergy, which also…
Date: February 4, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2222
Justia Opinion Summary: Caltech’s patents disclose circuits that generate and receive irregular repeat and accumulate (IRA) codes, a type of error correction code designed to improve the speed and reliability of data transmissions. Wireless…
Date: February 3, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1149
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2019, Myco began marketing “the AB Max,” a device for treating blepharitis, at a New Orleans trade show. Blepharitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the eyelids. A month later, BlephEx filed an application that…
Date: February 3, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1689
Justia Opinion Summary: PlasmaCAM sued CNCElectronics for infringing the 441 patent, for which Plasmacam has an exclusive license. In 2019, the parties notified the district court that they had settled the case. When the parties met to draft a…
Date: February 2, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1496
Justia Opinion Summary: Vox is the domain registry operator for the ".SUCKS" generic top-level domain (gTLD) for Internet websites. Vox’s 941 trademark application sought registration of the standard character mark .SUCKS in Class 42 (computer…
Date: February 1, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1558
Justia Opinion Summary: Qualcomm’s patent is directed to integrated circuit devices with power detection circuits for systems with multiple supply voltages. Apple filed two petitions for inter partes review (IPR), challenging different sets of…
Date: January 28, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1434
Justia Opinion Summary: Canadian Solar produces and exports certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China. The U.S. Department of Commerce, after an investigation, issued an order imposing a duty to counteract subsidies Canadian…
Date: January 27, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2257
Justia Opinion Summary: NSS’s patents are entitled “Method for Immediate Boolean Operations Using Geometric Facets” and relate to methods of packaging computer-aided data for three-dimensional objects. NSS brought suit for infringement against…
Date: January 21, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1046
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2017, Kyocera filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, alleging Koki was violating 19 U.S.C. 1337 by importing gas spring nailer products that infringe or were made using methods that infringe,…
Date: January 20, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1856
Justia Opinion Summary: Nicely served in active duty in the Marine Corps (USMC) for more than 10 years. Between Nicely’s 2010 DUI arrest and his 2011 discharge, the state court dismissed the DUI charge but Nicely wrote a letter to his…
Date: January 20, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1445
Justia Opinion Summary: The Landowners own parcels of land adjacent to a 2.45-mile strip of a Union Pacific railroad line in McLennan County, Texas. Union Pacific’s predecessor in interest, Texas Central originally acquired the Line in 1902…
Date: January 20, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1490
Justia Opinion Summary: Gurley served in the Army, 1972-1974 (a period of war) and the National Guard, 1975-1982. As of 1997, VA was paying him service-connected disability compensation benefits at the 100 percent disability level based on…
Date: January 19, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1401
Date: January 19, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1443
Date: January 19, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1751
Justia Opinion Summary: Dr. Smolinski is a Supervisory Physician in the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC), an Army hospital in Germany. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and occasionally saw…
Date: January 18, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2251
Date: January 18, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2277
Date: January 18, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2314
Date: January 14, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1963
Justia Opinion Summary: Evolusion owns the 845 patent, titled “Method and Device for Converting Firearm with Detachable Magazine to a Firearm with Fixed Magazine.” Evolusion sued Juggernaut, alleging infringement of several claims. The district…
Date: January 11, 2022
Docket Number: 20-2199
Justia Opinion Summary: Breland served in the Army in Vietnam, 1965-1968, and was exposed to Agent Orange. In 2006, Breland was diagnosed with carcinoma of the tongue; he completed his treatments in January 2007. The VA Regional Office denied…
Date: January 5, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1524
Justia Opinion Summary: B.W., a two-year-old in good health, experienced immune thrombocytopenic purpura after receiving his measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. Later blood tests showed his condition had resolved. More than six months after he…
Date: January 5, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1721
Justia Opinion Summary: The Browns, U.S. citizens, lived in Australia while Mr. Brown worked for Raytheon. The IRS received the Browns' amended returns for 2015 and 2017, claiming the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, signed by attorney Castro,…
Date: January 4, 2022
Docket Number: 20-1974
Date: January 3, 2022
Docket Number: 21-1070
Justia Opinion Summary: Novartis markets a 0.5 mg daily dose of fingolimod hydrochloride under the brand name Gilenya. The medication is used to treat relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, a debilitating immune-mediated demyelinating disease…
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