Full Federal Circuit Rejects Bid To Reconsider Martian Helicopter Patent

( May 14, 2026, 2:34 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a corrected May 13 order, the full Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals again denied a petition for en banc rehearing to reconsider whether a NASA subcontractor was immunized from infringement claims through its work for the federal government in its help developing a helicopter sent to Mars, leaving in place a panel’s February finding that the company was in fact immune....