by Carl Kukkonen | May 16, 2019 | Time Limits, Trial Institution
By Carl Kukkonen and Amanda Leckman The PTAB’s Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) will consider, at the behest of 360Heros, whether a complaint alleging patent infringement made by a party other than the patent owner of the patent triggers the § 315(b) time bar. 35...
by Carl Kukkonen | Jan 15, 2019 | CBMs, Patent Eligible Subject Matter
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....
by Carl Kukkonen | Nov 26, 2018 | Estoppel, Petitions
By Jocelyn Yu Ph.D. and Carl Kukkonen Assignor estoppel is a long-established, common-law doctrine of equity, which prevents a party who assigns a patent to another from later challenging the validity of the assigned patent. The doctrine also applies to parties in...
by Carl Kukkonen | Oct 5, 2018 | Prior Art Issues
By Phil Shelton and Carl Kukkonen On September 13, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that the claims in U.S. Patent 8,714,977 (the ‘977 patent) are unpatentable as being...
by Carl Kukkonen | Aug 22, 2018 | Evidentiary Issues
By: Amanda Leckman and Carl Kukkonen A party to an inter partes review may submit supplemental information within one month of institution if the party can show that the supplemental information is “relevant to a claim for which the trial has been instituted.” 37...
