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Neo Wireless LLC v. Ford Motor Company — Fed. Cir. (Oct 6, 2026)

No. 25-1334 Argued October 6, 2026 Published October 7, 2026

Neo Wireless challenges a Patent Office ruling in a dispute with Ford and other automakers. Neo sued the automakers, alleging infringement of wireless-communications patents; related lawsuits were consolidated in Michigan. The patent here concerns communication between a base station and a mobile device using groups of radio frequencies, called subchannels. Its claims require a control message indicating how a subchannel is configured. In a separate proceeding, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found the challenged claims obvious, and Neo appealed to the Federal Circuit. Obviousness asks whether a person with ordinary technical skill would have arrived at the claimed invention from earlier knowledge. Here, the dispute concerns combining two earlier works, called Walton and Li, and whether their control message conveys the required configuration. Neo's lawyer will argue that the Board lacked adequate support for that combination and misunderstood the information sent to the device.

Neo Wireless LLC v. Ford Motor Company (No. 25-1334) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, argued October 6, 2026.

Sources
Court-original argument audio — Federal Circuit:https://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/oral-arguments/25-1334_10062026.mp3
Case and argument date — official Federal Circuit recording index:https://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/home/oral-argument/listen-to-oral-arguments/
Patent challenge and Board ruling — IPR2022-01537, Paper61:https://ptacts.uspto.gov/ptacts/public-informations/petitions/1553856/download-documents?artifactId=QRGSZ2moY1GIW4mdrYdJjnwKvUkpNYkHWh-X30PC28M01r5liLz9gYo
Underlying infringement litigation — Michigan MDL3034, ECF99:https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-mied-2_22-md-03034/pdf/USCOURTS-mied-2_22-md-03034-2.pdf
Counsel appearances — Federal Circuit docket25-1334 (public mirror):https://dockets.justia.com/docket/circuit-courts/cafc/25-1334
Christopher Smith's firm — Brooks Kushman:https://www.brookskushman.com/practices/intellectual-property-litigation/

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