Federal Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment of Inequitable Conduct Despite Inventor’s ‘Smoking Gun’ Statement
by Dennis Crouch During patent prosecution, an inventor wrote to his attorney in the margin of a draft declaration: "I ...
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Eighth Circuit Judge on State Enforcement of Immigration Law
Access to legal immigration, which allowed my grandparents to settle here following World War II, has been a lasting gift ...
Procedural Fairness in Patent Pleading: Federal Circuit Vacates Adnexus Dismissal
by Dennis Crouch Adnexus Inc. v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 2024-1551 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 2025). The district court dismissed Adnexus ...
Grounds for Reversal: Federal Circuit Finds KAHWA Registrable for Coffee Shops (even though the word means Coffee in Arabic)
by Dennis Crouch In November 2025, I wrote about the still-pending cert petition in the trademark case of Vetements Grp. ...
First Circuit Rules Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order is Unconstitutional
Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a decision that Donald Trump's executive order denying birthright ...
Ultra Vires or Policy Discretion? Federal Circuit Now Weighing 5x Discretionary Denial Mandamus
by Dennis Crouch Two additional mandamus petitions have joined the Federal Circuit's growing docket challenging the USPTO's 2025 shift toward ...
Federal Circuit Rules Against Trump’s Massive IEEPA Tariffs in Our Case Challenging Them
Today the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against President Trump's massive "Liberation Day" tariffs in VOS ...
SEC and Ripple to wrap up years-long legal battle after dropping XRP appeals in Second Circuit
Key Takeaways The SEC and Ripple have agreed to withdraw their appeals in the XRP litigation, ending a major phase ...
Public-school students don’t have ‘supercharged right’ to be taught critical race theory, 8th Circuit says
Home Daily News Public-school students don’t have ‘supercharged… First Amendment Public-school students don’t have ‘supercharged right’ to be taught critical ...
Circuit Raises $4.5M to Solve Crypto’s $500B Asset Recovery Problem with Keyless Technology – AlleyWatch
The digital asset industry has lost over $500B to permanent asset loss, with private key failures, system breaches, and infrastructure ...
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