by Geoffrey Gavin | Aug 15, 2017 | Evidentiary Issues
By Geoffrey Gavin In Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC v. Power Integrations, IPR2016-00809, Paper 65 (PTAB Aug. 4, 2017), the PTAB denied the patent owner’s request for authorization to serve requests for production seeking documents and things related to...
by Geoffrey Gavin | May 23, 2017 | Estoppel
By Geoffrey Gavin and Marlee Hartenstein In Biscotti Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., Magistrate Judge Payne recommended that estoppel under §315(e) apply broadly against Microsoft in an upcoming patent infringement trial scheduled for early June 2017. No....
by Geoffrey Gavin | Mar 10, 2017 | Estoppel
By Geoffrey Gavin In Parallel Networks Licensing, LLC v. International Business Machines Corporation, No. 1:13-cv-02072, Dkt. No. 366 (D. Del. Feb. 22, 2017) (Slip Op.), the court held IBM was estopped from asserting obviousness under §103 based on prior art...
by Geoffrey Gavin | Jan 27, 2017 | Estoppel
By Geoffrey Gavin In Verinata Health, Inc. v. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc., No. 3:12-cv-05501-SI, Dkt. No. 319 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 19, 2017) (Slip Op.), Judge Illston in the Northern District of California addressed the scope of statutory estoppel under § 315 in the context...
by Geoffrey Gavin | Nov 17, 2016 | Estoppel, Stay
By Geoffrey Gavin In Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Kemper Corporation (accessible here), No. 6:16-cv-00081, Dkt No. 57 (E.D. Tex. Nov. 7, 2016) (Slip Op.), Judge Gilstrap made clear that a defendant in East Texas seeking a stay based on a third party petitioner’s...
