Jones Day Intellectual Property Practice Selected as 2018 Law360 Practice Group of the Year
Jones Day was recognized by the legal publication Law360 for its 2018 "Practice Groups of the Year" awards in the Intellectual Property and Product Liability categories. Now in their ninth year, the awards "honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major...
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Battling Boredom While Building Virtual Cities: PTAB Denies Claims as Patent-Ineligible
By Doug Clark and Carl Kukkonen Video game companies occasionally will take to the PTAB, seeking to invalidate each other’s patents. Mobile game developer Supercell Oy (petitioner) filed a Post Grant Review (“PGR) after learning that the USPTO issued U.S. Pat. No....
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Patent Owner Sanctioned For Ex Parte Communications
By Dave Maiorana Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.5(d), communications with a Board member regarding a specific proceeding are not permitted “unless both parties have an opportunity to be involved in the communication.” This prohibition, however, does not extend to “referring to...
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Role Of Company Board Members May Impact RPI Analysis
By Jennifer Chheda Ph.D. and John Kinton The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) recently denied the request of petitioner Fasteners for Retail, Inc. (“FFR” or “petitioner”) for rehearing in connection with decisions denying the institution of inter partes review...
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Patent Owner Gets Break On Improper MTA/Reply
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...
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