by Sarah Geers | Dec 28, 2023 | Prior Art Issues, PTAB News, Request for Reconsideration
By Luke Cipolla, Daniel Sloan, Robert Breetz, Sarah Geers, and Matt Johnson – USPTO Director Kathi Vidal recently designated precedential section II.E.3 of Penumbra, Inc. v. RapidPulse, Inc. and clarified that the priority analysis for an AIA reference patent as...
by Carl Kukkonen | Dec 14, 2023 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Request for Reconsideration, Trial Institution
By Ben Baek* and Carl Kukkonen – On November 16, 2023, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal ordered a Delegated Rehearing Panel (“DRP”) to review whether the PTAB misapprehended or overlooked certain issues when denying challenger SynAffix B.V.’s petition for inter partes...
by Lisa Furby | Feb 9, 2023 | Prior Art Issues, Request for Reconsideration
By Ryan Mueller and Lisa Furby – On January 10, 2023, a PTAB panel granted a Petitioner’s Request for Rehearing of Final Written Decision and, contemporaneously, issued a revised Final Written Decision in Unified Patents, LLC, v. 2BCom, LLC, IPR2020-00996,...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 10, 2022 | Final Written Decisions, PTAB News, Request for Reconsideration
By Ben Baek,* Mike Lavine, and Matt Johnson – In a previous post from July 2021, we discussed the interim process for Director review in PTAB proceedings post-Arthrex. Since then, only three out of over 175 requests for Director review of a Final Written...
by David Maiorana | Feb 15, 2022 | Request for Reconsideration, Trial Institution
By David Linden and Dave Maiorana – In November 2020, Google LLC filed two petitions requesting an inter partes review of the claims of Ikorongo Technology LLC (“Ikorongo”) owned U.S. Patent No. 8,874,554 (“the ’554 patent”). Separate petitions were filed to...
by Joseph Beauchamp | Dec 14, 2021 | PTAB News, Request for Reconsideration
By Alison Ibendahl and Joe Beauchamp – In a recent decision, Commissioner Andrew Hirschfeld, who is currently performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, issued the first...
