by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Oct 20, 2016 | Federal Circuit Appeal, Petitions, PTAB Trial Basics
On July 25, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in In re: Magnum Tools Int’l, Ltd., No. 2015-1300 (Fed. Cir. Jul. 25, 2016) confirming that the burden of proving invalidity lies with the petitioner throughout the entire...
by Matthew Johnson | Oct 13, 2016 | Final Written Decisions, Petitions, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Matt Johnson (profile) The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has released AIA trial filing and disposition numbers for August 2016. Filings remained near the 150 mark, with 143 total trials being requested in August, 136 of those being requests for Inter Partes Review....
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Jul 28, 2016 | Evidentiary Issues, PTAB Trial Basics
On July 25, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in In re Magnum Oil Tools International, Ltd., reversing the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“PTAB”) decision in an inter partes review and holding that the PTAB improperly...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Jun 21, 2016 | PTAB Trial Basics
The PTAB sometimes changes its claim constructions during the course of an inter partes review or a covered business method review. When it does so, according to the Federal Circuit’s recent holding in SAS Institute Inc. v. ComplementSoft, LLC, __ F. 3d __ (Fed. Cir....
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | May 24, 2016 | PTAB Trial Basics
On May 4, 2016 Magistrate Judge Dena Hanovice Palermo denied ION Geophysical Corp.’s motion for stay and recommended that the District Court deny ION’s request for relief under Rule 60(b)(6) after the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found certain of the claims...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | May 16, 2016 | PTAB Trial Basics
On May 10th, the PTAB identified five trial decisions as precedential, bringing the total number of IPR/CBM precedential decisions to eight. The newly added decisions are well known decisions that active PTAB practitioners will recognize and have likely already been...