ResQNet.com, Inc. v. Lansa, Inc. , 594 F.3d 860 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (PER CURIAM; Lourie & Rader; NEWMAN, concurring-in-part & dissenting in part)  

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MAJOR ISSUES: Product manual not a “printed publication”; absence of evidence of public accessibility ; submission to PTO: not an admission; on sale and public use without inventor’s authorization; pre-critical date advertisement of accused infringer’s product; damages: reasonable royalty, expert’s error in relying on a patent owner’s prior license agreements with high rates, agreements including software and not linked to infringed patent claim Read CPLRG™ 0022

Wyeth v. Kappos, 591 F.3d 136 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (RADER, Plager & Moore)

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MAJOR ISSUES: Patent term adjustment; term extension because of PTO failure to meet deadlines (“A delay”) and to issue patent within 3 years of filing (“B delay”); elimination of “overlap”; overlap commencing only after three-year mark; PTO’s erroneous interpretation as greater of A or B Read CPLRG™ 0023

Crocs, Inc. v. U.S. Int’l Trade Comm’n, 598 F.3d 1294, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 3793 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (RADER, Lourie & Prost)

MAJOR ISSUES: (1) design patent; infringement; detailed verbal description; error in emphasizing particular details on patented design; (2) utility patent; obviousness; more than combination of prior art elements; more than than predictable results; commercial success; prima facie nexus; industry praise; copying Read CPLRG™ 0024

In re Chapman, 595 F.3d 1330 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (DYK, Gajarsa & Clevenger)

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MAJOR ISSUES: obviousness; PTO rejection based on erroneous interpretation of prior art reference; reference: no teaching or teaching away Read CPLRG™ 0025

Trading Techs. Int’l, Inc. v. eSpeed, Inc., 595 F.3d 1340 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (RADER & Clark, district judge; LOURIE, concurring “in the result”; CLARK, concurring)

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MAJOR ISSUES: (1) claim construction; claim phrase limited by discussion in specification; doctrine of equivalents; prosecution history estoppel; (2) definiteness; “short period of time”; (3) priority for provisional application; disclosure of species showing possession of readily understandable genus; (4) inventor’s contracting for software services; no Section 102(b) “on sale” bar Read CPLRG™ 0026