by Joe Sauer | Oct 24, 2018 | PTAB News
By David Anderson and Joe Sauer As an update to the May 15, 2018 post, available here, some post-SAS trends appear to be taking shape. For the five-month period from May 2018 through September 2018, the PTAB issued 538 institution decisions. Of these, the PTAB...
by Joe Sauer | Aug 15, 2018 | Federal Circuit Appeal
By: Patricia Ochman and Joe Sauer On August 3, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd. on the basis that the appellant lacked...
by Joe Sauer | May 15, 2018 | PTAB News
By: Joe Sauer Anyone reading this post is likely well aware that on April 24 the Supreme Court put an end to the PTAB’s practice of instituting inter partes review (IPR) on less than all claims challenged in an IPR petition in SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu. See Supreme...
by Joe Sauer | Feb 27, 2018 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By: Tom Koglman and Joe Sauer In a case of first impression, the PTAB recently decided that the doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity does not apply to inter partes review proceedings. See Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, IPR2016-01127;...
by Joe Sauer | Jan 30, 2018 | PTAB News
By Joe Sauer The PTAB has posted the AIA Trial Statistics through the end of calendar year 2017. The PTAB statistics are available for download at the PTO website. Petition filings remained high with 1799 total petitions for review filed, compared with 1758 in 2016...
