Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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In re Packard Inextricably Linked to Patent Examination Practices? Back in 2014, the Federal Circuit determined the standard for a USPTO indefiniteness analysis in In re Packard ( here ). This standard was more deferential to the agency as compared to the…
This week, our Data Science Team continued reviewing Apple’s IPR cases with a focus on patent owners. We wanted to learn which entities had their patents challenged by Apple since the inception of Inter-Partes Review in 2012. We’ve unveiled the…
Written by Peter Heuser, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt In Metalcraft , the Circuit affirms a preliminary injunction based largely on the patentee’s proof that it ‎would be impossible to quantify damages ‎caused by loss of potentially-lifelong…
Building Consensus to Advance Innovation Reston, VA, February 16, 2017 – The Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Inc. (LES) is now an Accredited Standards Developer (ASD) of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). As an…
This week, Patexia Data Science Team continued reviewing Apple’s IPR challenges. However, we turned our attention towards PTAB Panel of Administrative Judges. Given that Apple has been the most active company responsible for filing almost 5 percent…
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 filed. This week, we decided to review the company’s cases and see who has been winning…
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 represents approximately 5 percent of all of the 5,592 IPR challenges filed through 2016. This…
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 unchanged (1,638 challenges were filed in 2016). Some suggest that there is a 6- to…
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 institute an Inter Partes Review (IPR2017-00607) (“current IPR petition”) of two design…
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. Several readers asked us if we can compare the total number of unique patents asserted in…
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 similar to case-level analysis we performed last week, the Institution Denial Rate at the…
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 well as other stats. The most recent PTAB stats from October 2016 shows that the IPR…
