by Matthew Johnson | Feb 21, 2024 | PTAB News, Request for Reconsideration
By Sabrina Bellantoni and Matt Johnson – Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“PTAB”) granted a request for rehearing of a decision that denied an institution of inter partes review and then instituted a trial on all the challenged claims on all the...
by Carl Kukkonen | Feb 15, 2024 | PTAB News
By Carl Kukkonen, Stephanie M. Mishaga, and Pranita Dhungana – USPTO Director Katherine K. Vidal issued guidance on February 6, 2024 regarding the use of AI in drafting materials submitted to the USPTO’s administrative boards, including the PTAB. Of biggest...
by Matthew Johnson | Feb 8, 2024 | Claim Construction, Federal Circuit, PTAB News
By Luke Cipolla, Matt Silveira, and Matt Johnson – In Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. v. Personal Genomics Taiwan, Inc., the Federal Circuit recently affirmed two PTAB decisions in IPRs filed by Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (PacBio) that...
by Tom Ritchie | Jan 31, 2024 | District Court, Estoppel, PTAB News
By Tom Ritchie – In GeigTech East Bay v. Lutron Electronics, patent owner GeigTech argued that Lutron should be estopped under 35 U.S.C. § 325(e)(2) from asserting two prior art grounds that it said Lutron could have reasonably raised in its post-grant review...
by Josh Nightingale | Jan 23, 2024 | Petitions, PTAB News, Trial Institution
By Daniel Sloan and Josh Nightingale – The PTAB recently declined to exercise its discretion to deny IPR, instituting review in BMW of North America, LLC v. NorthStar Systems LLC, IPR2023-01017, Paper 12 (Dec. 8, 2023). There, the PTAB held that (1) a Sotera...
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 2, 2024 | Prior Art Issues, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Sabrina Bellantoni and Matt Johnson – In a recent decision, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board found that the disputed claims regarding transferring digital content were not unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) after determining that the prior art cited by...
