#federal-circuit

#federal-circuit

The Federal Circuit’s response so far has been as a collective institution-proceeding en banc from the outset and issuing unanimous per curiam orders-reflects institutional awareness of political vulnerabilities.

This reaffirmation by the Federal Circuit highlights the ongoing division between Judges Hughes and Reyna, which has been evident in multiple cases regarding trade law.

The Federal Circuit's decision underscores that merely applying generic machine learning techniques without improvements to the models themselves does not qualify for patent eligibility.

In the case of Heritage Alliance, the Federal Circuit upheld the TTAB's decision, stating that the terms 'iVoterGuide' and 'iVoterGuide.com' were deemed highly descriptive and did not achieve distinctiveness.

The Federal Circuit panel indicated that the district court imposed an unjustifiably high standard on SAP in regard to specifying trial witnesses, though SAP's neutrality claim was upheld.

Realtek claimed that DivX's change in infringement theory constituted a material alteration that was improperly timed, thereby wasting resources and misrepresenting true allegations during the case.