PATracer v 2.0

We have moved from Typepad over to Wordpress, and in the process remodelled and added some new features and content.  The domain name, RSS feeds and email alerts should have automatically updated, so you shouldn’t need to reset or update any bookmarks, feeds etc.  Some of the permalinks to the old site may not work [...]

CAFC: Law Firm Disqualified On Appeal

2009-1171, -1558 Outside the Box v. Travel Caddy
The Federal Circuit has granted Outside the Box Innovations’ (aka Union Rich) Motion to Disqualify King & Spalding from representing Travel Caddy on appeal.  Travel Caddy hired lawyers from King & Spalding to represent it on this appeal–however, another King & Spalding lawyer acted as an expert [...]

Court Sticks Needle Patent With Invalidity

2009-1152 MBO Labs v. BectonD/MA 03-cv-10038Judge Joseph Tauro

Plaintiff MBO appeals from Judge Joseph Tauro's grant of summary
judgment finding that RE 36,885 invalid for violating the recapture
rule, 35 U.S.C. § 251. 

Catching Up-Week of January 3, part 1

Judge Avern Cohn and his clerks must have been busy last fall as a couple appeals from the first week of 2009 are from his court.  FYI, later this year Judge Cohn will hit 30 years on the bench in the Eastern District of Michigan. 
The four cases in Part 1 consist of 3 claim [...]

Catching Up-December 2008

December cases…

Catching Up-November 2008

Okay, so my efforts to catch up have fallen behind schedule, and now I resort to merely listing the appeals filed in November and December–then I can actually start covering the January cases.  Here are November's cases:

Catching Up-Week of October 27th

Another is the series of posts attempting to catch up.  A couple marking cases: one sufficiency and one false, and inventorship.

When You Need A Friend At Court

Everyone needs friends.  And what better time to have a friend with you is there than when arguing at the Federal Circuit, especially if your friend is also a "friend of the court," or amicus curiae?
I have worked on quite a few amicus briefs, both in private practice and during law school while working at [...]

Catching Up-Week of October 20th

As part of our recently announced plan to "catch-up" on coverage of cases, here are brief summaries of the appeals filed during the week of 20 October 2008 that we didn't already cover.
I expect a series of these Catching Up posts over the next few weeks until we get through December's filings, and then we [...]

Coming Soon To PATracer

Happy New Year, and thanks to everyone with reads, subscribes, comments, and otherwise uses PATracer.  When we started the site nearly a year ago we wanted to report on pending Federal Circuit patent cases–providing information on newly filed cases, the briefs, and oral argument.
With 2008 in the books, Josh and I have reviewed PATracer and [...]