by Carl Kukkonen | Oct 2, 2017 | Claim Construction, Trial Institution
By Carl Kukkonen and Amanda Leckman On September 13, 2017, the PTAB, a five-judge panel, granted a petition to institute an inter partes review brought by HTC America, Inc. (“Petitioner”) against Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. (“Patent Owner”) regarding U.S....
by Carl Kukkonen | Aug 30, 2017 | Federal Circuit
By Stephanie Brooker and Carl Kukkonen In Personal Audio, LLC. v. Electronic Frontier Foundation, No. 2016-1123 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 7, 2017), the Federal Circuit reviewed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) decision invalidating claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,112,504...
by Carl Kukkonen | Jul 11, 2017 | PTAB Trial Basics
By Jeff Giering, Ph.D. and Carl Kukkonen In an order entered June 30, 2017, the PTAB denied a motion by counsel for patent owner Purple Leaf, LLC (“Counsel”) to withdraw from representation in a trio of IPRs (IPR2016-01720, IPR2016-01721, and IPR2016-01722). Counsel...
by Carl Kukkonen | Jun 7, 2017 | Claim Construction, Federal Circuit Appeal
By Stephanie Brooker and Carl Kukkonen On May 8, 2017, in Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Ericsson Inc., 15-1739, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) inter partes review (IPR) claim constructions in a non-precedential decision. ...
by Carl Kukkonen | May 2, 2017 | Prior Art Issues
By Amanda Leckman and Carl Kukkonen In connection with a dispute over parking meters, the PTAB, on March 27, 2017, issued a decision in IPR2016-00067 that Duncan Parking Technologies, Inc. (DPT) had not met its burden of showing, by a preponderance of evidence, that...
