by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Feb 24, 2016 | Claim Construction
PPC Broadband, Inc. v. Corning Optical Commc’ns RF, LLC. In PPC Broadband, Inc. v. Corning Optical Commc’ns RF, LLC, 2015-1361 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 22, 2016), PPC appealed the PTAB’s decisions in four consolidated IPRs finding that each challenged claim in three patents...
by Tom Ritchie | Feb 25, 2021 | Trial Institution
By Tom Ritchie – The PTAB considers the six Fintiv factors to determine whether to exercise its discretion to deny institution of an IPR petition in view of a parallel litigation. In that analysis, Fintiv factor four requires the PTAB to evaluate the overlap...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 10, 2020 | 325(d) issues, PTAB News
By Robby Breetz and Matt Johnson – As we noted here, the PTAB recently designated two 35 U.S.C. § 325(d) cases precedential and one informative. Here is an in depth review of the informative decision. On March 24, 2020,the PTAB designated two sections of the...
by Cary Miller | Mar 30, 2017 | Final Written Decisions, Pharmaceutical
By Olga Schwier, Ph.D. and Cary Miller, Ph.D. The PTAB found obvious all claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,582,621 and 7,767,657 in the three final written decisions issued on February 23, 2017 (IPR2015-01776, IPR2015-01780, and IPR2015-01785). This marks another victory...