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Written by Peter Heuser, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.
In Mylan v. Aurobindo the Circuit affirms the grant of a preliminary injunction based upon the... Read More »
Written by Keith Lim and Maria Anderson
In Ex Parte Hafner, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) reversed... Read More »
Written by Nathanael Luman, Ph.D. and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D.
The PTAB granted joinder of a time-barred petitioner to an IPR trial after the patent owner settled... Read More »
Written by Benjamin Anger and Mark Rubinshtein, Ph.D.
A magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Texas recommended in Biscotti, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., No... Read More »
Written by Casey D. Donahoe, Ph.D. and Benjamin Anger
In a Final Written Decision in Johns Manville Corp. v. Knauf Insulation, Inc., IPR2016-00130, Paper 35... Read More »
Written by Peter Heuser, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt
Our report includes discussions of six of the precedential cases decided in the past week and will... Read More »
Written by Clayton R. Henson and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D.
The PTAB recently issued a final written decision on remand from the Federal Circuit, holding all claims... Read More »
Written by David T. Kim and Scott Raevsky
Four recent Final Written Decisions from the PTAB supported patentability on the rare basis of “secondary... Read More »
Written by Nathanael Luman, Ph.D. and Scott Raevsky
The USPTO Director granted a request to extend a missed deadline for an appeal of an IPR decision to the... Read More »
Written by Damien Howard and Nathanael Luman, Ph.D.
The PTAB expunged non-compliant motions for observations on cross-examination in Xilinx, Inc. v. Papst... Read More »
Written by Jeremy Anapol and John M. Carson
Patent enforcement by Texas-based DataTreasury Corp. (“DataTreasury”) was a key motivation for the... Read More »
Written by Casey D. Donahoe, Ph.D. and Scott Raevsky
In Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc., IPR2017-00067, Paper 14 (P.T.A.B. Apr. 25... Read More »
Written by Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D.
The USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has released its March 2017 statistics. The end of March marking... Read More »
In my last post, I discussed estoppel in the context in inter partes review, in which defendant filed for IPR after losing in the courts. The Board found the... Read More »
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May 2, 2017
Written by Lauren Hockett and Christopher M. DiLeo
In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court established the current framework for determining patent-eligible subject... Read More »
Written by Scott R. Seeley and Nathanael Luman, Ph.D.
Old Republic’s IPR petition was effectively unopposed due to a defect in the chain of assignment... Read More »
Written by Nathanael Luman, Ph.D. and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D.
The PTAB granted-in-part motions to amend in three related proceedings: Activision Blizzard... Read More »
After Novartis’ patents were found nonobvious by the Fed. Cir., affirming the Delaware District Court, defendant Noven filed for inter partes review (IPR) of... Read More »
Written by Nathanael Luman, Ph.D.
The PTAB weighed five factors in its discretionary denial of a second IPR petition filed by the same petitioner in Xactware... Read More »
Written by Jordan E. Gottdank and Andrea Cheek
The Federal Circuit affirmed-in-part and reversed-in-part the PTAB’s final written decisions on... Read More »