by Tim Heverin | Jul 6, 2018 | Other News
By: Tim Heverin The effects of SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu, 138 S.Ct. 1348 (2018), continue to reverberate throughout the PTAB and federal district courts. In Prisusa Engineering Corp. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al., No. 1:16-cv-21761-KMM (S.D. Fla. June 12,...
by Matthew Johnson | Jul 2, 2018 | Other News
By: Alex K. Chung and Matt Johnson Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the namesake and coauthor of the Hatch-Waxman Act, proposed (but has not yet introduced) an amendment titled the “Hatch-Waxman Integrity Act of 2018” during the Senate Judiciary Committee held on June...
by Greg Castanias | Jun 29, 2018 | Other News
In a Supreme Court matter argued on behalf of software developer SAS Institute Inc., Jones Day successfully challenged part of how the U.S. Patent Office’s Patent Trial and Appeals Board conducts its inter partes review proceedings. But that’s just half...
by David Maiorana | Mar 22, 2018 | Other News
By: Jaime Choi and Dave Maiorana On March 20, 2018, Reps. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) and Bill Foster (D-Ill.) announced in an article that they would introduce the STRONGER Patents Act to the U.S. House of Representatives. More formally referred to as The Support...
by Carl Kukkonen | Mar 21, 2018 | Evidentiary Issues, Other News, PTAB Trial Basics
By: Jeffrey Wu and Carl Kukkonen Publicly Accessible In Power Integrations, Inc. v. Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC, the PTAB provided new guidance to practitioners regarding the eligibility of conference papers as printed publications for use as prior art...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 8, 2018 | Other News
thisBy: Alex Chung and Matt Johnson In an appeal from final written decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) in six inter partes review (IPR) proceedings where Ford Motor Co. (“Ford”) challenged two patents owned by Paice LLC (“Paice”), the Federal...
