Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending April 8, 2022

A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Roche Diagnostics Corp., et al. v. Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC, Nos. 2021-1609, -1633 (Fed. Cir. (D. Del.) Apr. 8, 2022). Opinion by Prost, joined by Taranto. Dissenting opinion by Newman.

Roche brought suit against Meso seeking a declaratory judgment that it does not infringe Meso's rights arising from a joint venture license agreement. Meso counterclaimed for infringement of three patents. The parties tried the case to a jury. The jury found that Meso holds an exclusive license to the asserted patent claims, that Roche directly infringed one claim and induced infringement of three others, and that Roche's infringement was willful. The jury awarded Meso $137,250,000 in damages.