On December 23, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed three decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”)
In a significant ruling, the Federal Circuit has clarified the status of patent applications in the realm of intellectual property law, asserting that a
Ex parte Grillo-Lopez, Appeal No. 2018-006082 (Jan. 31, 2020) On April 7, 2020, the PTAB designated its January decision in Ex parte Grillo-Lopez (“the
Grunenthal GmbH v. Antecip Bioventures II LLC, PGR2018-00092 (Feb. 25, 2020) In a recent decision invalidating certain claims of a pain treatment patent, the
Samsung Electronics America, Inc. v. Prisua Engineering Corp., Appeal Nos. 2019-1169, 2019-1260 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 4, 2020) The Federal Circuit has held that the
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Centripetal Networks, Inc., IPR2018-01437 (Jan. 23, 2020) In a recent inter partes review decision invalidating a patent disclosing systems and
Ciena Corp. v. Oyster Optics, LLC, Appeal No. 2019-2117 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 28, 2020) The Federal Circuit has held that a party that petitioned
