Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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Written by Peter Law and Kerry Taylor, Ph.D. The PTAB has again addressed sovereign immunity in the context of an IPR. Reactive Surfaces, LTD. petitioned for IPR of U.S. Patents No. 8,394,618 and 8,252,571. The ’618 and ’571 patents are…
Written by Scott Siera, Ph.D. and Michael L. Fuller Stanford University v. The Chinese University of Hong Kong . Federal Circuit Appeal No. 2015-2011. Decided June 27, 2017. In an appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the Federal Circuit…
Previous posts (e.g., here , here and here ) discussed the patent enforcement activity of Celgard , a North Carolina company that manufactures specialty membranes and separators for lithium ion batteries. In these lawsuits, Celgard has asserted U.S. Patent…
In the first half of 2017, we saw a continued decline in patent litigation. District court litigation was down 14 percent to 2,039, compared to 2,482 in the first half of 2016. As for quarterly comparisons, we observed a modest increase of about 10 percent…
Written by Vikas Bhargava and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D. In an order issued in Petroleum Geo-Services Inc. v. Westerngeco LLC, IPR2016-00407, IPR2016-00499, Paper 29 (P.TA.B. Jul. 5, 2017), the PTAB terminated the proceedings after the parties indicated that…
Written by Clayton R. Henson and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D. Previously, we reported the outcomes of remands from the Federal Circuit to the PTAB in IPR cases through 2016. [https://www.knobbe.com/news/2017/02/ipr-appeals-outcomes-fed-circ-remands-ptab-law360].…
Written by Keith Lim and Maria Anderson Note: an Addendum has been added to this previously published article. In Ex Parte Hafner, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) reversed the Examiner’s…
Written by Daniel K. Yarbrough, Ph.D. and Benjamin Anger The PTAB granted-in-part a patent owner’s motion to substitute claims based on evidence of secondary considerations of nonobviousness in Valeo North America, Inc. v. Schaeffler Technologies, AG…
Written by Keith Lim and Vlad Teplitskiy In a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit affirmed the determination by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) in a covered business method review proceeding that the claims of U.S. Patent No.…
Written by Scott R. Seeley and Andrea Cheek The Federal Circuit upheld an IPR final written decision by the PTAB holding that MindGeek’s claims were unpatentable in Skky, Inc. v. MindGeek, S.A.R.L., No. 2016-2018 (Fed. Cir. June 7, 2017). MindGeek…
Written by Jeffrey C. Wu, Ph.D. and Ben J. Everton The Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari to address whether inter partes review – an adversarial process used by the Patent Office to determine the validity of existing patents…
Written by Nathanael Luman, Ph.D. and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D. The Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari to address whether the PTAB is required to issue a final written decision with respect to the patentability of every claim challenged…
