by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Jul 5, 2016 | Amendment Practice
On June 21, 2016, the PTAB issued a Final Written Decision in CBM2015-00040 (consolidated with CBM2015-00160) where both Google and Apple challenged the patentability of ContentGuard’s U.S. Patent No. 7,774,280, entitled “System and Method for Managing...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Jun 21, 2016 | PTAB Trial Basics
The PTAB sometimes changes its claim constructions during the course of an inter partes review or a covered business method review. When it does so, according to the Federal Circuit’s recent holding in SAS Institute Inc. v. ComplementSoft, LLC, __ F. 3d __ (Fed. Cir....
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | May 24, 2016 | PTAB Trial Basics
On May 4, 2016 Magistrate Judge Dena Hanovice Palermo denied ION Geophysical Corp.’s motion for stay and recommended that the District Court deny ION’s request for relief under Rule 60(b)(6) after the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found certain of the claims...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | May 16, 2016 | PTAB Trial Basics
On May 10th, the PTAB identified five trial decisions as precedential, bringing the total number of IPR/CBM precedential decisions to eight. The newly added decisions are well known decisions that active PTAB practitioners will recognize and have likely already been...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Apr 29, 2016 | Amendment Practice
On April 22, 2016, the PTAB granted a motion to amend for only the sixth time since institution of the AIA in its decision of Shinn Fu Company of America, Inc., et al. vs. The Time Hanger Corporation (IPR2015-00208, Paper 24). The patent at issue relates to “a method...
