Tag Archives: Federal Circuit

MYRAID APPEAL UPDATE: WHO’S RECUSING WHO?

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Warren Woessner

Subtitle: “Who’s Your Amicus, Baby?” On July 19th, various Blogs reported that the ACLU (Plaintiffs’ attorney in the appeal of the district court’s ruling in the case sensibly abbreviated by Hal Wegner as AMP v PTO) filed a motion in … Continue reading →

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Rader’s Dissent in Bilski – Keeping It Real

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Warren Woessner

Discussing a particularly convincing dissent, commentators frequently are compelled to close with: “But it was a dissent.” The most influential dissent in recent months may well be Judge Rader’s dissent in In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943, 1011 (Fed. Cir. 2008). … Continue reading →

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Fed. Cir. Holds Provisionals Are U.S. Filings For 102(E)

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Warren Woessner

In case you wondered if this was a settled question in the ever-shifting world of section 102, yesterday, In re Giacomini, (Rader, C.J.), (copy at end of post) the panel held that the effective U.S. filing date of a U.S. patent … Continue reading →

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Just Medium Rare

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Warren Woessner

This Post was written by Ronald Schutz of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi and published with his permission. Slip that inequitable conduct claim back on the summary judgment “barbie”-the standard for establishing such claims as a matter of law is … Continue reading →