by Kenneth Luchesi | Sep 9, 2018 | Estoppel
By: Kenneth S. Luchesi As the boundaries of estoppel post-SAS continue to unfold, one court has found that if a petitioner’s time for appealing a PTAB partial-institution decision had not yet run out at the time that SAS was handed down, then the failure to appeal...
by Kenneth Luchesi | Mar 20, 2018 | PTAB Trial Basics, Time Limits
By: Kenny Luchesi disclaimer A few weeks ago, we posted an article discussing the Federal Circuit’s decision in Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., 880 F.3d 1345 (Fed. Cir. 2018). (see Disclaimer Before Institution May Not Avoid Adverse Judgment Estoppel). In...
by Kenneth Luchesi | Feb 1, 2018 | Estoppel, Federal Circuit Appeal, Final Written Decisions, Preliminary Responses
By: Kenneth Luchesi In a split decision that drew separate opinions from each of the panel members, the Federal Circuit recently affirmed the PTAB’s decision to enter an adverse judgment against a patentee, even though the patentee had properly disclaimed all of the...
by Kenneth Luchesi | Dec 27, 2017 | PTAB Trial Basics
By Kenny Luchesi In 2016, the PTAB changed the limits for the length of certain filings in post grant proceedings, including petitions and responses, from limits based on the number of pages to limits based on the number of words. The USPTO stated that this change...
