by Matthew Johnson | Feb 11, 2019 | Amendment Practice, Claim Construction, PTAB Trial Basics
Patent Trial and Appeal Board, or PTAB, defense litigation strategies continue to evolve. In a recent Law360 article, Jones Day Intellectual Property lawyers Dave Cochran, Mike Hendershot, and Matt Johnson explained why previous assumptions and strategies pertaining...
by David Cochran | Feb 4, 2019 | Federal Circuit, PTAB Trial Basics
By Kait Crowder and Dave Cochran In Polygroup Limited MCO v. Willis Electric Company, Ltd., the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded the PTAB’s findings of patentability in light of several obviousness arguments presented by the petitioner, concluding that the PTAB...
by David Cochran | Jan 31, 2019 | PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Kait Crowder and Dave Cochran In Deeper, UAB v. Vexilar, Inc., the PTAB recently considered the extent of its discretion to grant or deny inter partes review in a case where a petitioner challenges multiple claims on numerous grounds. In this case, the petitioner...
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 3, 2019 | Amendment Practice, PTAB Trial Basics
By Levent Herguner and Matt Johnson – On November 30, 2018, the PTAB filed an opinion addressing two procedural issues in Aver Information Inc. v. Pathway Innovations and Technologies, Inc., Case IPR2017-02108, including failure to meet spacing requirements and...
by Tim Heverin | Dec 7, 2018 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Tim Heverin In September, the Patent Office revised Standing Operating Procedure 2 (available here) to create a new review path for designating opinions precedential or informational. See PTAB Litigation Blog discussion of SOP 2 here. Under the new...
by Matthew Johnson | Dec 6, 2018 | PTAB Trial Basics
By Yang Li Ph.D. (Alex) and Matt Johnson Among the many differences from a patent litigation in a district court, the expedited nature of an inter partes review (IPR) brings with it an obligation for the petitioner to have a full-fledged legal theory of its case right...
