by David Maiorana | Jan 8, 2020 | Amendment Practice
By Robby Breetz and Dave Maiorana In Apple v. Uniloc 2017 LLC, [1] the patent owner moved to amend the claims contingent on an unpatentability finding by the Board. The contingent amendment cancelled the original claims and replaced them with a new claim set. The...
by David Maiorana | Nov 7, 2019 | Real Party in Interest, Trial Institution
By Robby Breetz and Dave Maiorana To institute an inter partes review (IPR), the petition requesting the proceeding must be filed within one year of the petitioner or real party in interest (RPI) receiving a complaint alleging patent infringement. 35 U.S.C. §...
by David Maiorana | Sep 3, 2019 | Patent Eligible Subject Matter
By Olivia Pedersen and Dave Maiorana Despite the prohibition on patenting “abstract ideas” and the tendency of computer software claims to fall into that category, claims directed at improving faulty software systems may still be patentable if they...
by David Maiorana | Jul 1, 2019 | PTAB News
By Bobby Karl* and Dave Maiorana In a precedential decision, issued June 14, 2019, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s ruling against the University of Minnesota, declining to dismiss petitions for inter partes review (“IPR”). The court rejected the university’s...
by David Maiorana | Apr 23, 2019 | CBMs, Patent Eligible Subject Matter
By Dave Maiorana On Thursday, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG Interactive Brokers, LLC, No. 17-2257 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2019), that provides another data point on how CBM review works. Perhaps more...
