Welcome to this issue of The Precedent, which covers those opinions from Q3 and Q4 of 2023 that the Federal Circuit designated as precedential and worthy of publication in the Federal Reporter.
Recent cases in the European Patent Office (EPO), the UK, and United States illustrate substantive differences between these jurisdictions as they continue to develop their inventive step/nonobviousness frameworks.
In Pirani v. Slack Technologies, Inc.,1 a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that investors who purchase stock in a direct listing in which pre-existing shares are sold to the public without underwriters.
On September 20, 2021, in Pirani v. Slack Technologies, Inc., a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that investors who purchase stock in a “direct.