by Matthew Johnson | Nov 9, 2023 | Evidentiary Issues, Federal Circuit Appeal, Final Written Decisions
By Jack Graves and Matt Johnson – In Elekta Limited v. Zap Surgical Systems, Inc., the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a PTAB decision finding certain claims of a patent owned by Elekta Limited (“Elekta”) to be unpatentable, even though the PTAB decision had...
by Matthew Johnson | Oct 26, 2023 | Estoppel, Final Written Decisions, PTAB News
By Anthony Kim*, Evan Jones, and Matt Johnson – The Patent Trial and Appeal Board held all challenged claims of IGT’s patent unpatentable as obvious over two prior art patents. Zynga Inc. v. IGT, IPR2022-00199-32. In doing so, the PTAB further held that,...
by Matthew Johnson | Oct 20, 2023 | Final Written Decisions, Prior Art Issues, PTAB News
By Hannah Mehrle and Matt Johnson – At the Inter Partes review trial, Patent Owner attempted to swear behind Petitioner’s primary prior art reference by showing that the inventors of the asserted patents had conceived of the invention before the priority date of...
by Marc S. Blackman | Sep 22, 2023 | Federal Circuit, Final Written Decisions
By Marc Blackman – In a precedential opinion, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a final written decision in which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) found that Apple had failed to meet its burden of showing unpatentability due to an...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 7, 2023 | Final Written Decisions, PTAB News
By Adam J. Cook,* Christian Roberts, and Matt Johnson – On May 12, 2023, the Intel v. VLSI chronicle continued as the PTAB issued a final written decision holding that all of the challenged claims of VLSI’s U.S. Patent No. 7,725,759 (“the ’759 patent”) were...
by Joseph Beauchamp | Apr 18, 2023 | Final Written Decisions, PTAB News
By Alison Ibendahl and Joe Beauchamp – A panel of the Federal Circuit has again held that Commissioner Drew Hirshfeld had the requisite authority to act on requests for Director review of PTAB decisions during which the office of Director was vacant. Fall Line...
