- Lender that lost at trial wins on appeal. ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/1
- Narrow IPR petition kept Patent Trial and Appeal Board from canceling patent claim as indefinite. cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/
- Lay witness shouldn’t have opined on obviousness of glass-blowing patent. cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/
- Audio noise control patent survives appeal from one IPR but must face “reply” patentability arguments in second one. cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/
- Gap between actual and liquidated damages didn’t make clause unenforceable penalty. txcourts.gov/media/1445734/
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