Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP founding partner Steve Baughman has been quoted in Law360’s midyear report on what it calls the top patent decisions from the first half of 2025. The report quotes Baughman on a series of cases, beginning with iRhythm Technologies v. Welch Allyn Inc., in which the acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has cited the length of time that a patent has been in effect as a reason for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to decline review. Of these “settled expectations” cases, Baughman is quoted as saying: “It adds another potential practical deadline in the IPR calculation that I think many people did not have on their checklist until now.”
The report also looked at the Federal Circuit decisions in EcoFactor v. Google (on damages analysis), Lashify v. ITC (on the types of investment that can satisfy the domestic industry requirement for an ITC complaint), Ignacio v. Ioengine (concerning estoppel and the invalidity grounds available in district court following an IPR final written decision), and Recentive Analytics v. Fox (on AI and patent eligibility).