Federal Circuit Patent Watch: "The" Computer Means The Same Computer

Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions

1. FINJAN LLC V. SONICWALL, INC [OPINION] (22-1048, 10/13/2023) (Reyna, Bryson, and Cunningham)

Cunningham, J. The Court vacated the district court's judgment of invalidity and remanded for further proceedings and affirmed "the district court's grant of summary judgment of noninfringement and the district court's decision to exclude Finjan's expert analysis." The at-issue patents "relate to ways to protect network-connectable devices from undesirable downloadable operations" and "relate[] to adaptive, rule-based content scanners that scan mobile content for exploits to facilitate network security." The Court explained that "Finjan raise[d] four arguments." "First, Finjan challenges the district court's grant of judgment of invalidity of the claims [of three] of the [Downloadable P]atents based on collateral estoppel." The Court explained that it "cannot uphold applying collateral estoppel based on a