by Emily Tait | Feb 28, 2020 | Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News
By Emily Tait and Nate Andrews – The Federal Circuit continues to be flooded with petitions to revisit its panel decision in Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., 941 F.3d 1320, No. 2018-2140 (Fed. Cir. 2019). As previously discussed, all three parties in...
by Emily Tait | Dec 20, 2019 | Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News
By Nate Andrews and Emily Tait – As we have previously discussed on this blog and elsewhere, the Federal Circuit’s decision in Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew has generated significant discussion and controversy in the patent world. On December 16, both parties...
by Emily Tait | Oct 24, 2019 | CBMs, Patent Eligible Subject Matter
By Emily Tait The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) recently issued a Final Written Decision in favor of Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (“Comcast”) and against Promptu Systems Corporation (“Promptu”) in a covered business method (“CBM”) review of Promptu’s...
by Emily Tait | Sep 9, 2019 | Expert Witnesses, Petitions, Trial Institution
By Emily Tait The PTAB recently denied petitioner’s request for rehearing of a decision denying institution of inter partes review, rejecting the argument that the Board’s denial was based on an erroneous analysis of the “non-exhaustive” General Plastic factors. See...
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...
