Yorkey v. Diab, 610 F.3d 1297 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (MICHEL, Gajarsa & Kendall, district judge)Yorkey477
MAJOR ISSUES: interference in fact; interference; claim interpretation; PTO broadest reasonable construction of claims Read CPLRG™ 0043
Yorkey v. Diab, 610 F.3d 1297 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (MICHEL, Gajarsa & Kendall, district judge)Yorkey477
MAJOR ISSUES: interference in fact; interference; claim interpretation; PTO broadest reasonable construction of claims Read CPLRG™ 0043
Yorkey v. Diab, 610 F.3d 1279 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (MICHEL, Gajarsa & Kendall, district judge)Yorkey471
MAJOR ISSUES: written description; actual reduction to practice; PTO interference Read CPLRG™ 0042
Hearing Components, Inc. v. Shure Inc., 600 F.3d 1357 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (LOURIE, Rader & Schall)HearingComponent04012010
MAJOR ISSUES: laches defense; evidentiary prejudice only in regard to defense itself; indefiniteness; subjective terms; guidance from specification; mean-plus-funciton clause; equivalence of patent’s corresponding structure and accused structure; obviousness; secondary considerations; expert testimony; claim limitation missing from prior art; lack of motivation to combine; commerical success; nexus Read CPLRG™ 0040
Innovative Therapies, Inc. v. Kinetic Concepts, Inc., 599 F.3d 1377, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 6727 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (NEWMAN, Michel & Prost) InnovativeTherapies04012010
MAJOR ISSUES: declaratory judgment jurisdiction; justiciable controversy; subsequent infringement suit by patent owner in another district Read CPLRG™ 0041
HIF Bio, Inc. v. Yung Shin Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., 600 F.3d 1347 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (GAJARSA, Michel & Holderman, district judge) HIFBio03312010
MAJOR ISSUES: declaratory judgment of inventorship; federal law preemption of state law claims; inventorship on pending patent applications; PTO inventorship correction as exclusive remedy Read CPLRG™ 0039
