If you started practicing patent law recently, you might not have heard retired Chief Judge Paul Michel during oral argument. Here’s a good snippet of Chief Judge Michel during oral argument from years ago: For more of Chief Judge Michel (ret.), see this post: [Link].

The Federal Circuit sat en banc today to hear the tariff case V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump.

A Federal Circuit panel heard oral argument today in the case of Google v. Sonos. You can listen to the oral argument here: Joshua Rosenkranz, arguing for the patent owner, opened his argument with the statement: “Your honors, the district court took a doctrine that this court has cautioned must be sparingly applied and stretched […]

  Opinion Link Oral Argument Link       41 INGURAN, LLC v. ABS GLOBAL, INC. [OPINION]   Inguran, LLC v. ABS Global, Inc. (mp3)   42 AXONICS, INC. v. MEDTRONIC, INC. [OPINION]   Axonics, Inc. v. Medtronic, Inc. (mp3)   43 In Re FLOAT’N’GRILL LLC [OPINION]   In Re Float’N’Grill LLC (mp3)   44 […]

I saw that former US Solicitor General Ted Olson passed away. In 2007, he appeared at the Supreme Court to argue the case of Microsoft v. ATT opposite former Solicitor General Seth Waxman. I thought that might be a good oral argument of the day. Listen: Audio from https://www.oyez.org/cases/2006/05-1056.

  Opinion Link Oral Argument Link       21 ARBUTUS BIOPHARMA CORPORATION v. MODERNATX, INC. [OPINION]   Arbutus Biopharma Corporation v. ModernaTX, Inc.   22 HEALTHIER CHOICES MANAGEMENT CORP. v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC. [OPINION]   Healthier Choices Management Corp. v. Philip Morris USA, Inc.   23 SANDERLING MANAGEMENT LTD. v. SNAP INC. [OPINION] […]

With hurricanes on our minds this week, I thought it would be a good time to re-publish this post from October 10, 2019: With hundreds of thousands without power in Northern California and power grid vulnerabilities in question, a patent attorney’s mind naturally turns to the Electric Power Group case. Electric Power Group was discussed […]

The Tenth Circuit recently reviewed a summary judgment by a district court on the scope of the term “intellectual property” in a contract governed by Colorado law. [LINK]. Particularly, the dispute dealt with whether password information was “intellectual property” that had to be returned. Interestingly, the Tenth Circuit reversed the district court and held, based […]