by Emily Tait | Jun 18, 2019 | PTAB News, Real Party in Interest
By Emily Tait – The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) recently issued a Final Written Decision in Apple Inc. v. Uniloc Luxembourg, S.A., Case IPR2018-00282 (June 4, 2019) (Paper 30), rejecting Uniloc’s argument that Unified Patents (“Unified”) is a real...
by Emily Tait | Apr 15, 2019 | Amendment Practice
By Emily Tait On March 13, 2019, the PTAB issued the fifth installment of its ongoing Motion to Amend Study, which tracks and analyzes motions to amend filed in AIA trials through September 30, 2018 (end of Fiscal Year 2018). The data collected by the Board includes:...
by Emily Tait | Feb 20, 2019 | Estoppel
By Emily Tait – When an IPR petition results in a final written decision, the IPR petitioner (or the petitioner’s real party in interest or privy) is estopped from asserting in a civil litigation or an ITC action that “the claim is invalid on any ground that...
by Emily Tait | Feb 6, 2019 | PTAB News
By Emily Tait Since April 2018 when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Oil States decision, patent owners have made various arguments addressing issues that were not resolved in that case. One such example is Christy, Inc. v. United States, Case No. 1:18-cv-00657...
by Emily Tait | Nov 8, 2018 | Other News, PTAB Trial Basics
By: Emily Tait UPDATE: Oral Argument was held in this case in February 2019. On October 26, 2018, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service, et al. (17-1594) to address whether the U.S. government is a “person” who may...
