by Sarah Geers | Feb 13, 2025 | PTAB News
By Sarah Geers and Connor Scholes – In the closing weeks of 2024, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal announced her departure in a November LinkedIn post, stating that she would leave the Office during the second week of December to rejoin the partnership of...
by Matthew Johnson | Feb 11, 2025 | Federal Circuit, PTAB News
By Parth Matalia and Matt Johnson – Palo Alto Networks (PAN) filed a petition for inter partes review of Centripetal Networks’ patent—U.S. Patent No. 10,530,903—which is directed to a computing system for correlating packets in communication networks with a...
by Matthew Johnson | Feb 6, 2025 | Prior Art Issues, PTAB News
By Raffaella Faraoni and Matt Johnson – The Federal Circuit affirmed six PTAB decisions that held unpatentable as obvious 79 claims of three Cytiva Bioprocess (“Cytiva”) challenged patents and reversed the PTAB decision upholding four claims. JSR Corp. (“JSR”)...
by David Maiorana | Jan 31, 2025 | Joinder, PTAB News, Time Limits, Trial Institution
By David Linden and Dave Maiorana – On June 6, 2024, Shenzhen Waydoo Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. (“Waydoo”) filed a petition for inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 9,359,044 (“the ’044 Patent”) (“IPR998”), assigned to MHL Custom, Inc. (“MHL”). ...
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 28, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Derek Walker, Evan Tassis, and Matt Johnson – The PTAB recently denied institution of inter partes review of a patent directed to deep packet inspection in software defined networks in Juniper Networks, Inc. v. Orckit Corporation, IPR2024-00895. Applying the...
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 23, 2025 | Federal Circuit, Prior Art Issues, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Adam J. Cook and Michael Oblon – On appeal from an inter partes review (“IPR”), the Federal Circuit held that, under pre-America Invents Act (“pre-AIA”) law, a published patent application is prior art as of its filing date as opposed to its later date of...
