Federal Circuit Review | June 2025
June Federal Circuit Newsletter (Japanese) June Federal Circuit Newsletter (Chinese) No Injury, No Appeal: Patent Owners Must Show Actual Injury for Article III Standing In Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation...
Proposed Budget Cuts for U.S. Government Satellite Monitoring Could Lead to Market and IP Opportunities
In July 2025, the U.S. federal government proposed an 84% reduction in funding to the Office of Space Commerce. Some say the move would effectively terminate the agency’s further development...
An Eye Toward Prosecution History
EYE THERAPIES, LLC v. SLAYBACK PHARMA LLC Before Taranto, Stoll and Scarsi (sitting by designation) Summary: The patent’s prosecution history required a restrictive interpretation of the term “consisting essentially of.”...
Space Technology Investments Clear the Launch Tower in 2025
Investments in space technology are off to a strong start in the first half of 2025. The rising trend over the last four years, as mentioned in a previous Knobbe...
Fair Use and the Future of Generative AI: Lessons from the Meta and Anthropic Copyright Cases
With the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI entered the cultural zeitgeist. Not surprisingly, within a few months, the first generative AI lawsuits were filed in the U.S....
CRISPR Dispute Heats Up With Recent Federal Court Decision
On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) revived the Regents of the University of California’s (Regents) challenge to the Broad Institute’s CRISPR-Cas9 patents,...
In Law360 Column, Jeremiah Helm and Sean Murray Examine Federal Circuit’s Take on Opportunistic Trademark Filings
In the latest edition of their Law360 column on noteworthy Federal Circuit rulings, partners Jeremiah Helm and Sean Murray examine the recent decision in In re: Thomas D. Foster APC. In this ruling, the Federal...
Ted Cannon Examines Increased PTAB Petition Denials in Bloomberg Law
In the Bloomberg Law article “Growing Denials of PTAB Petitions Demand Sharp Patent Strategies”, Knobbe Martens partner Ted Cannon explored the increase in denials of Patent Trial and Appeal Board...
The Federal Circuit Grounds US SPACE FORCE Trademark Application
IN RE THOMAS D. FOSTER, APC, Before Moore, Prost, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Summary: Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act bars registration of a...
