by Dennis Crouch

The Federal Circuit hears seven patent appeals on Monday, November 2, before two panels sitting at 10 a.m. The full lineup is on the Federal Circuit argument calendar – a tool I am testing in alpha. The court keeps the names of the particular judges on the panel secret until about an hour before the 10:00 am arguments. Four of the cases are back to the old patent law standard appeal – claim construction. Two focus on eligibility under Section 101. (GE v. LPP raises both.)

Can you tell what these images represent?

Side views of the protective phone case in Figs. 1E and 1F of U.S. Patent No. 10,327,524, marking end height H and side-edge height h

In re Jefferson Street Holdings LLC, Nos. 25-1661, 25-2037, 26-1008 (PTAB). Must a “continuous” height be a constant height? Jefferson Street’s three related patents claim a phone case whose side edges are lower than its ends, so the screen stays easy to reach. The side views above, from the ‘524 patent, mark the end height (H) and the lower side-edge height (h).