Federal Circuit Court Decisions

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit hands down decisions that can dramatically affect the fate of a company's intellectual property assets. Recently decided patent cases are listed below with links to the court decision as well as a Finnegan summary, if the case is particularly significant. Case decisions dating back to 2001 can be accessed by searching on keyword, case name, case number, judge(s), lower court, or date of decision. 

Finnegan summarizes Federal Circuit decisions in its monthly publication, Last Month at the Federal Circuit. To view the newsletter, please click here. To sign up to receive the newslsetter, please click here.

05/16/2013	Forrester Environmental v. Wheelabrator Technologies	12-1686	Decision
05/14/2013	Metso Minerals, Inc. v. Powerscreen International	11-1572	Decision
05/13/2013	Motiva, LLC v. ITC	12-1252	Decision
05/10/2013	Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland v. Genentech, Inc.	12-1454	Decision
05/10/2013	CLS Bank International v. Alice Corporation	11-1301	Decision
05/07/2013	Baron Services, Inc. v. Media Weather Innovations LLC	12-1285	Decision
05/01/2013	Versata Software, Inc. v. SAP America, Inc. [opinion]	12-1029	Decision
05/01/2013	Harvest Toomer v. Shinseki [opinion]	12-7130	Decision
05/01/2013	Allergan, Inc. v. Sandoz Inc. [opinion]	11-1619	Decision
04/29/2013	Shimano, Inc. v. Rea [opinion]	12-1286	Decision