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Simultaneous/Redundant Petitions Attacking Same Claims Questioned
The Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s (PTAB) new focus on institution equities of serial... Read More »
Federal Register Notice Advertises Alternative PTAB Amendment Options
Last Friday the USPTO published a notice in the Federal Register entitled: Notice Regarding... Read More »
Three years ago, we started publishing the Patexia Insight Series with our first article about the Shortage of Patent Attorneys in the U.S. A lot has changed since... Read More »
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E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Unifrax I LLC, Appeal No. 2017-2575 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 17, 2019)
Our featured case of the week revolved... Read More »
CAFC Upholds Injunction to Shut Down PTAB
The AIA statutes provide that a person who is not the owner of a patent, can challenge the patent at the Patent Trial... Read More »
Before Moore, Mayer, and Linn. Appeal from the Patent and Trial Appeal Board.
Summary: A graphical user interface that allows users to place orders... Read More »
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Omega Patents, LLC v. CalAmp Corp., Appeal No. 2018-1309 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 8, 2019)
In an appeal from a series of post-trial decisions, the... Read More »
Director Encouraged to Do What He is Already Doing?
At several bar events over the past few weeks, the Director has made clear that the agency is “looking... Read More »
Unchallenged Claim Falls on Summary Judgement
Back in 2016, I flagged a few district court decisions that leveraged Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB)... Read More »
First quarter of 2019 is behind us and patent litigation continues its downward trend, which was started back in 2015. In the first quarter of 2019, total of 825... Read More »
A Florida judge recently entered a permanent injunction against a handful of Florida businesses and their owner, barring them from further infringing a patent... Read More »
Justice Dept. Defends Challenge to APJ Appointments
The latest constitutional challenge to the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) involves the Appointments... Read More »
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Grunenthal GMBH v. Alkem Labs., Ltd., Appeal Nos. 2017-1153, -2048, -2049, -2050 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 28, 2019)
This week the Federal Circuit... Read More »
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SRI Int’l, Inc. v. Cisco Sys., Inc., Appeal No. 2017-2223 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 20, 2019)
In a decision following trial, the... Read More »
A little over a year ago, the patent-eligibility of software inventions was very bleak. Examiners maintained difficult Alice-based rejections (rejecting the claims as ... Read More »
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Natural Alternatives Int’l v. Creative Compounds, LLC, Appeal No. 2018-1295 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 15, 2019)
In an appeal from a... Read More »
Issue Joinder Debate Comes Full Circle
As previously discussed, the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s (PTAB) new Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) has... Read More »
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PersonalWeb Techs., LLC v. Apple, Inc., Appeal No. 2018-1599 (Fed. Cir. March 8, 2019)
In a second appeal in this inter partes review matter, ... Read More »
Close Trial Date to Doom Parallel IPR Petitions?
Last September, the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) found the advanced stage of a parallel district court... Read More »
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University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. v. General Electric Company, Appeal No. 2018-1284 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 26, 2019)
The Court this... Read More »