by Matthew Johnson | Feb 8, 2017 | Stay
By Matt Johnson The multiple flavors of review and prosecution at the Patent Office produce an environment where a patent family could be subject to inconsistent results. Conceivably, patents in a pre-AIA patent family could simultaneously be subject to regular...
by Geoffrey Gavin | Nov 17, 2016 | Estoppel, Stay
By Geoffrey Gavin In Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Kemper Corporation (accessible here), No. 6:16-cv-00081, Dkt No. 57 (E.D. Tex. Nov. 7, 2016) (Slip Op.), Judge Gilstrap made clear that a defendant in East Texas seeking a stay based on a third party petitioner’s...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Mar 14, 2016 | Stay
The International Trade Commission (“ITC”) has never granted a stay of a Section 337 investigation in favor of an American Invents Act inter partes review (“IPR”) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). That trend...
