August 4, 2023
Federal Circuit Summary for Week Ending August 4, 2023
Teradata Corp. v. SAP SE, No. 2022-1286 (August 1, 2023) (nonprecedential); Patent Nos. 9,626,421, 8,214,321, and 7,617,179
Key points:
- The operative complaint for determining jurisdiction at the Federal Circuit is the live complaint, which can be the amended complaint, not the original complaint.
- If patent infringement allegations may be brought in a separate action, those allegations do not qualify as compulsory counterclaims.
- Having some overlap in claims and counterclaims does not make the issues “largely the same” or make the evidence supporting
Realtime Data LLC v. Array Networks Inc., No. 2021-2251 (August 2, 2023) (nonprecedential); Patent Nos. 9,054,728; 8,933,825; 8,717,203; 9,116,908; 7,415,530; 10,019,458; and 9,667,751
Key point:
- To be eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, functional claims (and the associated specification) must identify how the functional results are achieved by limiting the scope of the claims to structures specified at some level of concreteness in the case of a product claim, or to concrete action in the case of a method claim.