{"id":664015,"date":"2026-11-01T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/664015\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:38:11","slug":"oral-args-at-the-federal-circuit-seven-patent-appeals-on-nov-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/664015\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Args at the Federal Circuit: Seven Patent Appeals on Nov 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dennis Crouch<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/scotusgate.com\/cafc_calendar.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Circuit argument calendar<\/a> &#8211; 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 &#8211; claim construction. Two focus on eligibility under Section 101. (GE v. LPP raises both.)<\/p>\n<p>Can you tell what these images represent?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/jefferson-524-fig1e-1f.png\" alt=\"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\" width=\"400\" height=\"495\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In re Jefferson Street Holdings LLC, Nos. <a href=\"https:\/\/scotusgate.com\/cafc_case.php?appeal=25-1661\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">25-1661<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scotusgate.com\/cafc_case.php?appeal=25-2037\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">25-2037<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scotusgate.com\/cafc_case.php?appeal=26-1008\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">26-1008<\/a> (PTAB). Must a &#8220;continuous&#8221; height be a constant height? Jefferson Street&#8217;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 &#8216;524 patent, mark the end height (H) and the lower side-edge height (h).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit hears seven patent appeals on Monday, November 2, before two panels sitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,155047],"class_list":["post-664015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-paid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}