Author Archives: Warren Woessner

AAM v. Neapco – Part IV – Petition for Rehearing En Banc Denied – “Bad Vibrations”

This post will briefly discuss the Fed. Cir.’s denial of rehearing en banc – which  left the modified panel opinion stand. The lengthy panel opinion has been the subject of my last three posts, and you should read them before … Continue reading

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AAM v. Neapco – Part III – The Dissent Faces a “Perfect Storm” of Conflated Doctrines

Since most of my last post discussing Judge Moore’s dissent focused on her criticism of the majority’s conclusion that the claimed invention—placing a tuned liner into a hollow “propshaft” to attenuate two modes of vibration—was directed to Hooke’s law and … Continue reading

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AAM v. Neapco Part II– Judge Moore’s Dissent – Nothing More = Nevermore?

My first post on this troubling decision is dated August 3rd. If you have not already, please read it before you read this one. It focuses on the two judge majority opinion, that found that a claim to a method … Continue reading

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AAM v. Neapco: Method of Manufacturing Claim Gets the 101 Hook(e)

In American Axle and Manufacturing v. Neapco Holdings LLC, Appeal No. 2018-1763 (Fed. Cir., July 31, 2020), a split panel of Judges Dyk, Moore and Taranto, on rehearing, slightly modified their earlier opinion that most of the claims of U.S. … Continue reading

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