For at least a decade the U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t shown the slightest hesitation to sweep aside longstanding Federal Circuit precedents.

Just last week, the high court overruled the Federal Circuit’s 1992 laches decision. The Supreme Court’s 2014 decisions on fee-shifting and indefiniteness did away with precedents that had been in place nearly a decade each.

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