Legal Opinion
Wasica Finance GmbH v. Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 4, 2017No. 2015-2078; 2015-2079; 2015-2093; 2015-2096PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHALL, Circuit Judge.
These consolidated appeals come to us following two related inter partes review proceedings before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”). Both proceedings involve now-expired U.S. Patent No. 5,602,524 (“the ’524 patent”) owned by Wasica Finance GmbH and Bluearc Finance AG (“Wasica”). The ’524 patent has 21 claims. Claim 1 is the sole independent claim. The first proceeding, IPR2014-00295, arose from a petition filed by Continental Automotive Systems, Inc. (“Continental”) (“the ’295 proceeding”). In the ’295 proceeding, the Board…
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