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Athena Automation Ltd. v. Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.

11671165 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 23, 2014)
Athena Automation Ltd. v. Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.

23 Cited authorities

  1. Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

    509 U.S. 579 (1993)   Cited 27,277 times   242 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a trial judge must ensure that all admitted expert testimony "is not only relevant, but reliable"

  2. Phillips v. AWH Corp.

    415 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2005)   Cited 5,861 times   167 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "because extrinsic evidence can help educate the court regarding the field of the invention and can help the court determine what a person of ordinary skill in the art would understand claim terms to mean, it is permissible for the district court in its sound discretion to admit and use such evidence"

  3. Finisar v. Directv

    523 F.3d 1323 (Fed. Cir. 2008)   Cited 423 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "a competent opinion of counsel concluding either [non-infringement or invalidity] would provide a sufficient basis for [the defendant] to proceed without engaging in objectively reckless behavior with respect to the [asserted] patent"

  4. Net Moneyin v. Verisign

    545 F.3d 1359 (Fed. Cir. 2008)   Cited 283 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, to anticipate, a single prior art reference must not only disclose all the limitations claimed but also must disclose those limitations "arranged or combined in the same way as recited in the claim"

  5. Ecolochem v. Southern California Edison

    227 F.3d 1361 (Fed. Cir. 2000)   Cited 147 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a prior-art reference did not anticipate claims 1, 4, and 7-12, but that it did anticipate claim 20

  6. Lindemann Maschinenfabrik v. Am. Hoist

    730 F.2d 1452 (Fed. Cir. 1984)   Cited 200 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that claims are not to be treated as "mere catalogs of separate parts, in disregard of the part-to-part relationships set forth in the claims and that give the claims their meaning"

  7. Saunders Gr. v. Comfortrac

    492 F.3d 1326 (Fed. Cir. 2007)   Cited 66 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that claim scope is not limited to the disclosed embodiments "unless the patentee has demonstrated a clear intention to [do so]"

  8. DSW, Inc. v. Shoe Pavilion, Inc.

    537 F.3d 1342 (Fed. Cir. 2008)   Cited 59 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding cannot import limitations from apparatus and system claims into method claims when method claim not directed to structure or assembly of apparatus or system claim

  9. Harari v. Lee

    656 F.3d 1331 (Fed. Cir. 2011)   Cited 47 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding "Baldwin, however, does not set a hard and fast rule that 'a' always means one or more than one. Instead, we read the limitation in light of the claim and specification to discern its meaning."

  10. Monsanto v. David

    516 F.3d 1009 (Fed. Cir. 2008)   Cited 52 times
    Holding that "the technology fee is not an established royalty for the infringing act of saving seed"

  11. Rule 26 - Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 26   Cited 100,967 times   692 Legal Analyses
    Adopting Fed.R.Civ.P. 37

  12. Rule 702 - Testimony by Expert Witnesses

    Fed. R. Evid. 702   Cited 27,843 times   287 Legal Analyses
    Adopting the Daubert standard

  13. Section 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty

    35 U.S.C. § 102   Cited 6,016 times   1014 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting the grant of a patent to one who "did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented"

  14. Section 311 - Inter partes review

    35 U.S.C. § 311   Cited 407 times   196 Legal Analyses
    Establishing grounds and scope of IPR proceeding

  15. Section 6 - Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    35 U.S.C. § 6   Cited 186 times   63 Legal Analyses
    Giving the Director authority to designate "at least 3 members of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board" to review "[e]ach appeal, derivation proceeding, post-grant review, and inter partes review"

  16. Section 318 - Decision of the Board

    35 U.S.C. § 318   Cited 161 times   140 Legal Analyses
    Governing the incorporation of claims added via the operation of § 316(d)

  17. Section 42.100 - Procedure; pendency

    37 C.F.R. § 42.100   Cited 192 times   75 Legal Analyses
    Providing that the PTAB gives " claim . . . its broadest reasonable construction in light of the specification of the patent in which it appears"

  18. Section 42.73 - Judgment

    37 C.F.R. § 42.73   Cited 18 times   62 Legal Analyses
    Regarding judgments

  19. Section 42.20 - Generally

    37 C.F.R. § 42.20   Cited 16 times   38 Legal Analyses

    (a)Relief. Relief, other than a petition requesting the institution of a trial, must be requested in the form of a motion. (b)Prior authorization. A motion will not be entered without Board authorization. Authorization may be provided in an order of general applicability or during the proceeding. (c)Burden of proof. The moving party has the burden of proof to establish that it is entitled to the requested relief. (d)Briefing. The Board may order briefing on any issue involved in the trial. 37 C.F

  20. Section 42.65 - Expert testimony; tests and data

    37 C.F.R. § 42.65   Cited 6 times   17 Legal Analyses
    Discussing "[e]xpert testimony"

  21. Section 90.2 - Notice; service

    37 C.F.R. § 90.2   2 Legal Analyses

    (a)For an appeal under 35 U.S.C. 141 . (1) (i) In all appeals, the notice of appeal required by 35 U.S.C. 142 must be filed with the Director by electronic mail to the email address indicated on the United States Patent and Trademark Office's web page for the Office of the General Counsel. This electronically submitted notice will be accorded a receipt date, which is the date in Eastern Time when the correspondence is received in the Office, regardless of whether that date is a Saturday, Sunday,