by Carl Kukkonen | Oct 30, 2023 | Amendment Practice, Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News
By Carl Kukkonen and Matt Carey – The Federal Circuit in Sisvel International S.A. v. Sierra Wireless, Inc. (Fed. Cir. Sept. 1, 2023) (Prost, Reyna, and Stark) affirmed a PTAB decision finding anticipated and/or obvious certain claims of two patents directed to...
by Matthew Johnson | Oct 27, 2023 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Real Party in Interest
By Sue Gerber and Matt Johnson – The PTAB requires that all petitioners in IPR and PGR proceedings disclose the real party(ies)-in-interest. While that might seem like a mere formality, a false disclosure can lead to very harsh consequences. In a recent...
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 Matthew Johnson | Oct 16, 2023 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Simon Maxwell* and Matt Johnson – On March 15, 2022, Facet Technologies, LLC (Plaintiff/Patent Owner) filed an infringement suit against LifeScan, Inc. (Defendant/Petitioner) in U.S. District Court for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 8,840,635 (the ’635...
by Matthew Johnson | Oct 10, 2023 | 325(d) issues, PTAB News, Trial Institution
By Daniel Sloan and Matt Johnson – On August 24, 2023, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal vacated a PTAB decision denying institution of inter partes review in Keysight Technologies, Inc. v. Centripetal Networks, Inc. and remanded the case for further proceedings....