ActiveVideo Networks, Inc. v. Verizon Communications, Inc., Nos. 2011-1538, -1567, 2012-1129, -1201 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 2, 2012) (Judges Bryson, Mayer, and Linn) (per curiam) (nonprecedential order) If you’re a Verizon FiOS® customer, pay attention. You might have heard about Verizon’s huge patent lawsuit with ActiveVideo, which resulted in Verizon having to pay $115 million in […]
Category: Federal Circuit Orders
Thanks for Playing
We’ve all seen those sad moments on game shows when an eager contestant walks away empty-handed. While we can’t all be as successful in court as Barney Stinson was on “The Price Is Right,” it helps if you know how the game is played. The plaintiffs in these cases tripped up on the rules, so […]
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
In these 2 orders, the Federal Circuit said no way to a stay, but it told another case to go away. Not *NSYNC with the Timeline SynQor, Inc. v. Artesyn Technologies, Inc., Nos. 2011-1191, -1192, -1193, 2012-1069, -1071, -1072 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 31, 2012) (Judge Moore) (nonprecedential order) The defendants in this case wanted a […]
Patent Law Lessons from Junior High
Patent prosecutors, be aware: syntax isn’t just for English majors anymore. Think back on those junior high days spent diagramming sentences, because how you organize patent claims is just as significant as what you say. More importantly, if you’re litigating a patent, make sure you tell the trial court all of your problems with the […]
Court Tells Pond to Jump in Lake
We have a couple of short opinions in this post. One is, literally, a probing opinion on invalidity. The other is an order granting en banc review in a case we told you about a few months ago. In re Pond, No. 2011–1179 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 18, 2012) (Chief Judge Rader, Circuit Judges Dyk and […]
More Texas Transfer Tales
This post is a round up of some interesting orders the Federal Circuit issued last week. All of these orders involve “emergency” appeals. Last week the court considered Apple Inc.’s emergency appeal involving a request to transfer a patent infringement case out of the Eastern District of Texas to the Northern District of California, where […]