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Building Consensus to Advance Innovation
Reston, VA, February 16, 2017 – The Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Inc. (LES) is now an... Read More »
Yesterday, the PTAB in interference 106,048 issued a short order finding no interference- in- fact between the claims of 12 Broad Institute patents (US Patent Number... Read More »
The admissibility of evidence is an important consideration for many PTAB proceedings. The procedures for objecting to and admitting evidence can be nuanced and, as... Read More »
This week, Patexia Data Science Team continued reviewing Apple’s IPR challenges. However, we turned our attention towards PTAB Panel of Administrative Judges... Read More »
Recalibration of Venue Could Change Face of Patent Litigation
As most are well aware, the patent venue statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), provides that patent... Read More »
Last month, the Federal Circuit made clear that Article III standing is necessary for petitioners to appeal from adverse decisions in AIA trial proceedings... Read More »
Written by Scott Forbes and Jeremy Carney
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) recently held in Ex parte Itagaki and Nishiara (PTAB... Read More »
In last couple of weeks we reported that Apple, with 267 IPR challenges filed since 2012, has been at the top, responsible for almost 5 percent of all challenges... Read More »
By Barry Herman
By now, most everyone in the patent community has heard about the $2.54 Billion dollar jury verdict in a battle over Hepatitis C medication that... Read More »
A patentee has several options for responding to a Petition for Inter Partes Review (“IPR”) or Covered Business Method (“CBM”) petition. The... Read More »
Last week we reported on the top 10 all-time IPR petitioners and learned that Apple, with 267 IPR challenges filed from 2012 through 2016, was at the top. This... Read More »
Written by Peter Heuser, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt
In Tinnus v. Telebrands, the Circuit affirms the grant of a preliminary injunction even though... Read More »
A few weeks ago we reported a sharp decline in patent litigation in 2016 of more than 20 percent. However, activity for Inter-Partes Review (IPR) remained basically... Read More »
Written by Peter Law, Jason J. Jardine and Loni Morrow
On January 5, 2017, Skechers U.S.A., Inc. filed a petition with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to... Read More »
The doctrine of definiteness requires a patent to clearly state what the inventor considers to be their invention. Of course, the PTAB interprets various claim terms... Read More »
Last week we published patent litigation stats for 2016 as we learned that the numbers of District Court Cases had declined more than 20 percent compared to 2015... Read More »
Last year we saw a sharp decline in patent litigation. Q4 ended with 21 percent drop compared to Q4 of 2015. In 2016, total of 5,086 patent lawsuits were filed across ... Read More »
In a Post-Grant Review (“PGR”) at the U.S Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”), a petitioner can challenge the validity of a patent on... Read More »
This week our Data Science Team decided to go one step further and review the Institution Denial rate for patents challenged from 2012 through 2015. We learned that... Read More »
Every month the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) releases their AIA Trial statistics which includes the Inter-Partes Review (IPR) denial and institution rates as... Read More »