by Matthew Johnson | Mar 19, 2025 | Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Kait Crowder and Matt Johnson – Honeywell filed a petition for inter partes review of 3G Licensing’s U.S. Patent No. 7,319,718, which claims a coding scheme for transmitting information in 3G mobile communication systems. The PTAB found none of the...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 7, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Standing
By Ellen Geyer and Matt Johnson – The Federal Circuit rejected a recent argument that the PTAB does not have inter partes review (IPR) jurisdiction over expired patents. Because even expired patents involve the grant of public rights, the court explained that...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 3, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Ashvi Patel and Matt Johnson – On Friday, the USPTO rescinded its June 21, 2022, guidance memorandum entitled “Interim Procedure for Discretionary Denials in AIA Post-Grant Proceedings with Parallel District Court Litigation.” That memorandum discussed...
by Lisa Furby | Feb 21, 2025 | Discovery, Evidentiary Issues, PTAB Trial Basics
By Lisa Furby and Jim Twieg – “Because Congress intended inter partes reviews to serve as a faster and more cost-effective alternative to litigating validity in district courts, discovery in inter partes reviews is limited.” See Garmin Int’l, Inc. v....
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 28, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Derek Walker, Evan Tassis, and Matt Johnson – The PTAB recently denied institution of inter partes review of a patent directed to deep packet inspection in software defined networks in Juniper Networks, Inc. v. Orckit Corporation, IPR2024-00895. Applying the...
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 23, 2025 | Federal Circuit, Prior Art Issues, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Adam J. Cook and Michael Oblon – On appeal from an inter partes review (“IPR”), the Federal Circuit held that, under pre-America Invents Act (“pre-AIA”) law, a published patent application is prior art as of its filing date as opposed to its later date of...
