by Joe Sauer | Nov 29, 2018 | Amendment Practice, Claim Construction, PTAB News
By Levent Herguner, Alex Li, and Joe Sauer On Tuesday, November 13th, the PTAB Bar Association held its inaugural Thought Leader Summit. The Summit featured two sessions on recent developments in the patent litigation field, as well as a keynote address from Acting...
by Doug Pearson | Nov 15, 2018 | PTAB News, Time Limits
By Doug Pearson As reported in a prior post, the Federal Circuit in Click-To-Call Tech. v. Ingenio, Inc., 2015-1242 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 16, 2018) (en banc) found in a divided 10-2 en banc decision that a voluntary dismissal without prejudice of a district court litigation...
by Doug Pearson | Oct 31, 2018 | Pharmaceutical, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Doug Pearson Prior to the USPTO’s issuance of revised Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 2 on September 20, 2018 (available here), designation of Board decisions as Precedential or Informative required, among other things, nomination of a decision to the Chief...
by Matthew Johnson | Oct 30, 2018 | Pharmaceutical, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Josh Nightingale and Matt Johnson The USPTO has revised its standard operating procedure (SOP) governing the assignment of judges to panels in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) cases. The SOP, available here, provides guidance to Board administrative personnel...
by Joe Sauer | Oct 24, 2018 | PTAB News
By David Anderson and Joe Sauer As an update to the May 15, 2018 post, available here, some post-SAS trends appear to be taking shape. For the five-month period from May 2018 through September 2018, the PTAB issued 538 institution decisions. Of these, the PTAB...
by S. Christian Platt | Sep 19, 2018 | PTAB News
By: Amanda Leckman and S. Christian Platt Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) hearings are typically open to the public, and a schedule of upcoming hearings is posted on the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) website. But hearings are only...