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...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 18, 2023 | Discovery, PTAB News
By Anthony Bautista and Matt Johnson – In Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp., the PTAB granted Masimo, the owner of patent 10,687,745 (“the ’745 patent”), their request for production directed to “specific documents identified in regard to [a prior] ITC Investigation,...
by Sarah Geers | Apr 12, 2023 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Sarah Geers and Ashvi Patel – In its second-ever Final Written Decision in a derivation proceeding, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) determined that a patent application for a biocidal composition and method of producing said biocidal...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 30, 2023 | Final Written Decisions, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Sue Gerber and Matt Johnson – An IPR “shall be terminated with respect to any petitioner upon the joint request of the petitioner and patent owner, unless the Office has decided the merits of the proceeding before the request for termination is filed.” 35...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 27, 2023 | PTAB News, Trial Institution
By Anthony Bautista and Matt Johnson – In Apple, Inc. v. Katherine K. Vidal, the Federal Circuit ruled that Apple and the other plaintiffs could continue their suit on a lone surviving challenge to the PTAB Director’s rulemaking procedures regarding...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 22, 2023 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Matt Chung and Matt Johnson – On February 24, 2023, Director Kathi Vidal issued a decision under director review granting rehearing and modifying the final written decision for Nested Bean, Inc. v. Big Beings USA Pty. Ltd. Nested Bean, Inc. (“Nested Bean”)...