Aerospace Update | November 2025
Aerospace IP Strategy in View of Recent U.S. Patent Office Updates Tom Cowan Aerospace technology companies often decide between patenting an innovation or keeping it as a trade secret. Typically,...
Vertical Aerospace Poised for Piloted Transition Amid Expanding eVTOL Market
Vertical Aerospace (NYSE: EVTL) achieved a milestone in its eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle) development. On November 13, 2025, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) granted Vertical a...
Aerospace Update | August 2025
No Tariffs on Aerospace Products Traded Between U.S. and European Union Nicholas Zovko & Rhett D. Ramsey On July 27, 2025, the U.S. and EU reached a trade agreement. As part of...
Litigation Update | August 2025
An Examiner’s Allowance Does Not Create an “Especially Weighty” Presumption of Written-Description Support Justin J. Gillett & Alex Martin del Campo MONDIS TECHNOLOGY LTD., HITACHI MAXELL, LTD., NKA MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD., MAXELL,...
Firefly Aerospace Soars in $6.3 Billion IPO as Space Tech Investment Accelerates
Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLY) completed one of 2025’s largest space technology initial public offerings (IPO) on August 7, 2025. Firefly priced its shares at $45 and closed its first...
Litigation Update | July 2025
Combination Dosing Regimen Not Obvious Despite Overlapping Prior-Art Ranges Justin J. Gillett & Alex Martin del Campo JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. v. TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC. Before Prost, Reyna, and Taranto....
Combination Dosing Regimen Not Obvious Despite Overlapping Prior-Art Ranges
JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. v. TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC. Before Prost, Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Summary: The Federal Circuit found...
National Security Startups Attract Record VC Interest as DOD Spending Surges
Venture capital firms (VCs) are increasing investments in national security startups amid a proposed record $1 trillion DOD budget, while also diversifying risk due to concerns over inflated valuations by...
Knobbe Martens Advises Kandu Health, Inc. in Merger with Neurolutions, Inc.
KanduTM Health, Inc. and Neurolutions, Inc. today announced that they have merged to form Kandu, Inc. With the merger, Kandu, Inc. expects to set a new standard of care for stroke recovery, accessible to...
“Quotation” Letter Found to Constitute Offer Invalidating Patents
CROWN PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY, INC. v. BELVAC PRODUCTION MACHINERY, INC. Before Dyk, Hughes, and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Summary: An offer for...
Unraveling Hose Inventorship – From Idea to Contribution
BLUE GENTIAN, LLC v. TRISTAR PRODUCTS, INC Before Prost, Chen, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Summary: Alleged joint inventor contributed...
Lack of Advance Notice Vacates District Court’s Orders
ABC CORPORATION I v. PARTNERSHIP AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
Before Dyk, Taranto, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Summary: Failure to provide advance notice under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(a) leads to vacating of preliminary injunction.
Intrinsic Record Thwarts Theory of Interchangeability
Construing a broad claim term to be re-defined as a disclosed species on a theory that the terms are interchangeable requires that the intrinsic record clearly manifest a departure from the term’s plain and ordinary meaning.
