Federal Circuit Court of Appeals News

A divided federal appeals court upheld a $371.2 million award in favor of C.R. Bard Inc in a long-running patent infringement dispute with W.L. Gore & Associates over vascular grafts.

A U.S. appeals court upheld a lower court's dismissal of certain AstraZeneca PLC patent-infringement lawsuits against several generic manufacturers that are planning to sell copies of the company's blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor.

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In a December 2011 order, the Delaware district court awarded preliminary injunctive relief to Sciele and Shionogi and forcing Lupin to stop selling generic versions of the patentee's diabetes drug Fortamet .

Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS.

Cambridge-based Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. suffered a significant setback in a patent-infringement case over its blood-thinner Lovenox after a judge granted a stay to a would-be competitor allowing the rival to market its own version of the drug, Bloomberg reported.

Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC Corp. said Tuesday it would continue efforts to fight against German patent portfolio holder IPCom GmbH in a U.S. district court.

It may sound glamorous to be on the road up to 100 days a year covering metro Detroit's sports... Ford won as an appeals court vacated a $56-million patent-infringement award against it over lights that are put on a vehicle's exterior mirrors.

Apple has taken the International Trade Commission's month-old decision finding HTC's Android gismos infringe only one of the patents it asserted and letting it ship the products while it fixes the problem to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit .

Canada's Nova Chemicals Corp. infringed two Dow Chemical Co. patents for making a thinner, stronger plastic, a U.S. federal appeals court that specializes in patents has ruled.

The Virginia State Bar Intellectual Property Section is seeking papers written by law students who are attending law school in Virginia or are residents of Virginia attending law school outside of Virginia and relating to an intellectual property law issue or the practice of intellectual property law.

A Delaware federal judge has denied a defense argument in a patent infringement suit that the patent was invalid because the plaintiff failed to pay a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office maintenance fee on time.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biotechnology company specializing in the characterization and engineering of complex drugs, today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Patent owners may breathe a sigh of relief because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has agreed to review a ruling from last year in a case about an alleged infringer's right to sell a product based on a patent claim subsequently changed in a patent office action.

Apple A is looking to sharpen the teeth on a recent import ban it secured from the International Trade Commission against HTC smartphones, according to an appeal filing discovered Wednesday by Florian Mueller .

The time has come to reform the way district courts handle patent cases. For many years, academics have studied and provided comment regarding the high reversal rates in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of district court patent decisions.

The damages, awarded to Marine Polymer Technologies Inc., were vacated in September on appeal by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has announced that it will hold an en banc rehearing of the Marine Polymer Tech case.

Randall Rader, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, will show off his musical chops Thursday night at the House of Blues with his band, DeNovo.