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Missed Signals: The Importance of Physical Plausibility in Claim Construction
SATIUS HOLDING, LLC v. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (2025-1446, October 1, 2026) U.S. Patent No. 6,711,385 (“the 385 patent”) relates to a coupler designed to match the impedance of a transmitter to the impedance of air. The physics problem is a familiar one in RF engineering: signals reflect and lose power when transmitting between media […]
Picture Imperfect: Providing Improved Resolution For Analogous-Art
The Nielsen Co. (US), LLC v. TVision Insights, Inc., No. 25-1371 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 14, 2026) U.S. Patent No. 11,470,243 (“the ‘243 patent”) covers audience measurement systems (essentially the technology that watches you while you watch television) ostensibly to count how many people are in the room and whether they are paying attention. The ‘243 […]
Pulling Teeth for Priority: Federal Circuit Bites into Loose Prior Art Standards
DENTAL MONITORING SAS v. ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC. Dental Monitoring SAS v. Align Technology, Inc. (Aug. 10, 2026) addressed an issue practitioners encounter with some regularity – priority-date requirements for prior art under the AIA. The question was whether a reference with a priority chain in which the earliest, but not latest, priority date predates the application at issue […]