Examples of CAFC in a sentence
We ask that interested parties present only arguments on issues which have not already been decided by the CAFC.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in Apex Frozen Foods v.
The Department is continuing to evaluate options for determining labor values in light of the recent CAFC decision.
The CAFC has held that this is a reasonable interpretation of the statute.
The CAFC indicated that inadequate responses to an agency’s inquiries would suffice to find that a respondent did not act to the best of its ability.
For example, in 2002 the CAFC ruled that the PTO had incorrectly rejected two applications for “obviousness,” arguing that if an examiner rejects an application using “general knowledge,” that knowledge “must be articulated and placed on the record.”14 According to deputy commissioner Esther Kepplinger, this means “we can’t reject something just because it’s stupid.”15 This decision could significantly weaken the level of scrutiny provided by the already costly and overcrowded patent-litigation system.
Recent decisions by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the specialized appeals court for patent cases, concerning the validity of “important” patents (those deemed sufficiently valuable by patentholder or competitor to litigate and appeal) create still another reason for serious consideration of a nonjudicial process for post-issue validity challenges.
Report from the Fire Chief Re: CAFC 2010 Government Relations Week.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has affirmed much of Commerce’s differential pricing methodology.
The “pro-patent” judicial philosophy promulgated by the CAFC since its creation has compounded these barriers: According to one study, successful challenges to patent validity fell from 50 percent to 33 percent in the years after the creation of the CAFC (Lemley and Allison, 1998).Direct costs in litigation are also high compared with those of reexamination.