by Carl Kukkonen | Dec 21, 2022 | Discovery, District Court, PTAB News
By Carl Kukkonen – The PTAB in a recent PGR proceeding: SWM International, LLC et al v. DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH (PGR2021-00097), reiterated the requirements for additional discovery. In particular, in this matter, the petitioner, having access to excerpts...
by Carl Kukkonen | Oct 13, 2022 | PTAB News
By Carl Kukkonen – In Zynga Inc. v. IGT, IPR2022-00199, the USPTO Director, Kathi Vidal, sua sponte granted review and affirmed the decision instituting trial over patent owner’s argument that the Board erred in its application of interference estoppel...
by Carl Kukkonen | Aug 17, 2022 | Evidentiary Issues, PTAB News
By Carl Kukkonen – In Salesforce.com, Inc. v. WSOU Investments, LLC d/b/a Brazos Licensing and Development, the Board denied institution of inter partes review of a patent directed to providing content to a limited display terminal (e.g., a PDA) because...
by Carl Kukkonen | Jun 17, 2022 | Other News, PTAB News
By Christopher Dorsett,* Stephanie Mishaga, and Carl Kukkonen – The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently reversed obviousness rejections based on an Applicant demonstrating commercial success of an infant spoon, in Ex Parte Doug Gonterman and Jessica...
by Carl Kukkonen | May 23, 2022 | Federal Circuit Appeal, Real Party in Interest
By Carl Kukkonen – The Federal Circuit, in Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. Bennett Regul. Guards, Inc., 21-1759, in an opinion by Judge STOLL, dismissed Atlanta Gas’s appeal for lack of jurisdiction. In this case, Atlanta Gas filed an IPR which was instituted and...
