by Albert Liou | Jun 14, 2019 | PTAB News
By Albert Liou The PTAB’s recent decision in TicketNetwork, Inc. v. CEATS, Inc. reminds litigants that collateral estoppel only applies when there is an identity of issues. In the decision, the PTAB refused to find that a claim limitation was disclosed by a prior art...
by Albert Liou | Apr 10, 2019 | PTAB News
By Albert Liou Recently, the PTAB issued its first ever final written decision in a post-AIA derivation proceeding in Andersen Corporation v. GED Integrated Solutions, Inc., Case DER2017-00007, Paper 57 (PTAB Mar. 20, 2019), finding that the Petitioner had not proved...
by Albert Liou | Dec 11, 2018 | Discovery, Real Party in Interest
By Albert Liou – In Cavium, LLC v. Alacritech, Inc., Case IPR2018-00401 (PTAB Nov. 20, 2018) (Paper 24), the PTAB granted a Patent Owner’s motion for additional discovery relating to real party-in-interest. The split-panel decision is interesting...
by Albert Liou | Oct 17, 2018 | Amendment Practice
By Albert Liou The Board recently exercised its discretion to terminate trial and obviate the Patent Owner’s pending Motion to Amend, after the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s ruling that all of the challenged claims were invalid for lack of patentable...
by Albert Liou | Jul 24, 2018 | Stay
By: H. Albert Liou PTAB Allows Patent Owner to Stay its Own Reissue Proceeding 35 U.S.C. § 315(d) and 37 C.F.R. 42.122(a) vest the PTAB with the power to stay, transfer, consolidate, or terminate any matter pending before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office while an...
