Posts Tagged: "Medtronic Inc"

Federal Circuit Remands Inter Partes Review Decision Invalidating NuVasive Patent

NuVasive owns a patent relating to spinal fusion implants. Medtronic petitioned the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) to institute an inter partes review challenging the validity of NuVasive’s patent over several references. The Board instituted the IPR and found the challenged claims obvious over a combination of references.

CAFC Rejects Claim Construction on Plain Meaning when Context Leads to a Different Interpretation

The district court erred by relying entirely on the plain meaning of the claim where context-based interpretations were necessary. The Court held that the plural terms “intervals” and “remotes” in isolation could mean what must occur during each interval and what was applicable to all the remotes, but there was no requirement indicated in the remaining claim language or specification that at least one remote transmit and receive frames during at least one interval. The Court held that this evidence, together with other language in claim 21, and teachings in the specification, showed that each cycle in the claims must have intervals in which remotes were allowed to transmit.

Federal Circuit Review – Issue 6 – 01-29-2014

In this issue of the Federal Circuit Review: (1) Supreme Court Holds Patentee Always Bears Burden on Infringement, Even in Declaratory Judgment Action