The Federal Circuit affirmed a Utah district court ruling that claims in an engine controller software patent owned by Definitive Holdings are invalid under the pre-AIA on-sale bar, rejecting the patentee's argument that prior sales must publicly disclose t...
The Federal Circuit affirmed a Utah district court's ruling that patent claims covering methods for upgrading engine controller software were invalid under the on-sale bar, rejecting Definitive Holdings' argument that third-party sales do not constitute pri...
A Federal Circuit panel held that third-party commercial sales of a device embodying patented engine controller reprogramming technology triggered the on-sale bar under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. Section 102(b), even though those sales did not publicly disclose the...
The Federal Circuit on Monday reversed a Northern District of California ruling that had granted Intel Corporation summary judgment of noninfringement in VLSI Technology LLC's case over U.S. Patent No. 8,566,836, which covers selecting processor cores to ex...
The Federal Circuit held that Intel cannot escape a pretrial stipulation establishing U.S. nexus for 70% of its global activities in a multicore processor patent dispute.
The Federal Circuit held that third-party sales of a device embodying patented engine controller technology invalidated Definitive Holdings' patent under the on-sale bar, even though the sales didn't publicly disclose the invention's internal workings.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that when a government agency overrides an automatic stay triggered by a contract protest, the protesting contractor can obtain declaratory relief without proving the traditional four-factor test for preliminary injunctions.
A three-judge Federal Circuit panel reversed a California district court's summary judgment for Intel in a multicore processor patent dispute, finding the lower court misread a pretrial stipulation on U.S. nexus and wrongly imported a claim limitation throu...
The Federal Circuit reversed a California federal court's summary judgment for Intel Corporation in a multicore processor patent case, finding that a pretrial stipulation established U.S. nexus for 70% of Intel products meeting technical requirements.
The Federal Circuit held that agencies cannot arbitrarily override automatic contract protest stays without meeting additional judicial hurdles for protesters seeking declaratory relief.