Supreme Court extends patent exhaustion to method claims

 Judge Clark orders parties to limit number of claim terms and asserted claims

 "Plausible" invalidity defenses defeat willful infringement even though court found infringer intentionally infringed

 Federal Circuit notes possibility of patentee recovering nonexclusive licensee/subsidiary's lost profits if those lost profits inexorably flow to the patentee

 Prosecution disclaimer in parent patent limited claims in child patent even though limitation expressly limiting claim in parent patent was absent in child patent

 "Partially" construed to exclude "totally"

 Entire-market-value rules does not require that patentee make or sell unpatented components sought to be included in the royalty base

 Actions of equitable patent owner are not relevant in considering whether a delay in paying maintenance fee was unavoidable

 Court gives collateral estoppel effect to PTO's final rejection of claim in reexamination proceeding even though appeal to Federal Circuit was pending

 PTO unveils new rules for Appeal Briefs