IP Insights

In a precedential opinion decided April 3, 2023, Ironburg Inventions prevailed on appeal against Valve Corporation in a dispute regarding indefiniteness of the claim language of U.S. Patent 8,641,525 (the “’525 patent”) describing a hand-held controller for a video gaming console.  Ironburg Inventions Ltd. v. Valve Corporation, Docket No. 2021-2296, -2297, 2022-1070.  Regarding the back […]

In a March 13, 2023 precedential opinion in Apple Inc. et al. v. Vidal (available here), the Federal Circuit reversed in part an order from the Northern District of California (“Northern District”) dismissing the unreviewability of plaintiffs’ challenge to the U.S. Patent Office Director’s instructions as having improperly been issued without notice-and-comment rulemaking.   In […]

H&R Block became embroiled in a trademark battle of H&R Block v. Block in early 2022, weeks after Square, Inc. rebranded as Block, Inc. and contemporaneously moved into the insurance space by integrating Credit Karma Tax into its Cash App smart device application.  Beyond the overlap of Block, Inc. with H&R Block’s trade use of […]

In a February 1, 2023 precedential opinion in In re: Google LLC (available here), the Federal Circuit vacated an order from the Western District of Texas (“Western District”) denying Google LLC’s (“Google”) motion to transfer a patent infringement lawsuit to the Northern District of California (“Northern District”) and directed that the case be transferred.   […]