Legal Opinion

Natural Alternatives Int'l, Inc. v. Creative Compounds, LLC

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided March 15, 2019No. 2018-1295PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Moore, Circuit Judge.

Natural Alternatives International, Inc., appeals a decision of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granting Creative Compounds, LLC's motion for judgment on the pleadings that the asserted claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,965,596, 7,825,084, 7,504,376, 8,993,610, 8,470,865, and RE45,947 are not patent eligible. Because Creative Compounds has failed to demonstrate under Natural Alternatives' proposed claim constructions that the claims are not patent eligible, we reverse and remand.

BACKGROUND

Natural Alternatives owns a number of patents that relate…

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