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 John Evans, Ph.D. | Aug 26, 2022 | District Court, Estoppel, PTAB News
By Lisa Furby, John Evans, and Michelle Smit – After a final written decision issues, an IPR petitioner is statutorily estopped from going back to the district court and arguing that the same claims are “invalid on any ground that the petitioner raised or...
by Matthew Johnson | Jul 13, 2022 | Discovery, District Court, PTAB News
By Connor Scholes,* Evan Jones, and Matt Johnson – On May 3, 2022, a panel of three PTAB administrative patent judges granted a motion for additional discovery in TCL Industries Holdings Co., Ltd. v. Parkervision, Inc., IPR2021-00985, (PTAB 2022), in which the...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 3, 2022 | Claim Construction, District Court, PTAB News
By Anthony Bautista and Matt Johnson – In XR Communications, LLC v. D-Link Systems, Inc. Et. Al., a judge in the Central District of California found that certain asserted claims claiming to wireless communication technology were barred by the doctrine of...
by Joseph Beauchamp | Feb 8, 2022 | District Court, PTAB News
By Alison Ibendahl and Joe Beauchamp – * The Federal Circuit has just issued an additional decision in this dispute today. We will cover that development further shortly. In a recent decision, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board granted institution of inter...
