by Carl Kukkonen | Jun 21, 2018 | PTAB News
By: Carl A. Kukkonen and Matt Johnson Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) hosted the annual meeting of the heads of the world’s five largest intellectual property offices, commonly referred to as the IP5 (see a related press release). In...
by Greg Castanias | Jun 18, 2018 | PTAB News
By: Greg Castanias, David Cochran, and John Marlott On April 24, 2018, in SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu, a closely divided U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed the way that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board confronts inter partes reviews under the America Invents...
by S. Christian Platt | Jun 8, 2018 | PTAB News
By: Jeffrey C. Wu, Ph.D. and S. Christian Platt On June 5, 2018, Chief Judge David Ruschke and Vice Chief Judge Tim Fink of the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) participated in a webinar providing new guidance on three topics: (1) the new claim construction...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Jun 1, 2018 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By: Rich Graham and Matt Johnson On June 1, 2018, the PTAB announced new guidance on motions to amend in AIA trials. In view of the decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal, 872 F.3d 1290 (Fed. Cir....
by Joe Sauer | May 15, 2018 | PTAB News
By: Joe Sauer Anyone reading this post is likely well aware that on April 24 the Supreme Court put an end to the PTAB’s practice of instituting inter partes review (IPR) on less than all claims challenged in an IPR petition in SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu. See Supreme...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | May 8, 2018 | Claim Construction, PTAB News
By: Rich Graham and Matt Johnson Today, the USPTO issued a press release announcing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Claim Construction Standards used in PTAB Proceedings.[1] The rule proposed by the Office would change the prior policy of using the Broadest...